Last week, Zhongguancun, China’s Silicon Valley had its plan approved for major changes as it aims to boost its total revenue to $1.54 trillion by 2020. It’s yet another sign that China is indeed uprising. Tencent bought shares in Huayi Brothers media to strengthen its video content strategy, though, it wasn’t revealed how the two would collaborate. Alibaba Group also confirmed with us the acquisition of CNZZ, a traffic stats company.
Baidu claimed second in the area of brand valuation growth in Millward Brown’s Global Brand Rankings. Details on a possible Baidu and Microsoft partnership will be released soon too. Baidu’s search engine revenue continues to rise in China. Sina Weibo reached 140 million users. Gaopeng suffered an iPhone giveaway backlash last week.
On India, we wrote about Indiatimes’ newly launched SMS-based mobile browser, how social media is becoming an important channel for India, and also an infographic which captured the highlights on India’s mobile industry.
Social media is huge in Indonesia, so huge that it turned into a documentary. That was regardless of Indonesia’s low computer literacy rate which took a lift, thanks to Ubuntu. The white iPhone 4 was finally unveiled in Indonesia through XL and Telkomsel. Indonesia also has its very first Internet only TV channel. Indomie a popular instant noodle in Indonesia turned into a rap song on YouTube which is well-loved by Indonesians.
LinkedIn is coming to Japan. The country had also gotten itself a Japanese guide for Facebook. Docomo will also include Twitter features in its upcoming smartphones and feature phones according to an agreement made last week.
All of last week’s tech stories here at Penn Olson, the Asia tech blog:
Tech and News
(1) LinkedIn Coming to Japan, Hiring
(2) Promoting Computer Literacy in Indonesia With Help From Ubuntu
(3) Social Media in Indonesia Turns into a Creative Commons Documentary
(4) Social Sites Share 650,000 Youku Videos A Day On Average
(5) White iPhone 4 Finally Available in Indonesia
(6) Facebook Page Admin Speaks: George Yeo In, Tin Pei Ling Out
(7) China’s Zhongguancun One Step Closer to Silicon Valley
(8) Telkomsel Competes with XL, Now Offers BlackBerry Data Roaming Service
(9) Navi-Facebook: A Japanese Guide For Facebook
(10) Malaysia’s Facebook Fighters
(12) US State Dept marks $19M to fight censorship in China, Iran
(13) India Has a SMS-based Mobile Browser with Facebook, Bollywood, and Cricket
(14) Docomo and Twitter Announce Agreement on Mobile Services
(15) Sina Weibo Hits 140 Million Users
(16) Indonesian Students to Build and Sell Phones, from Scratch
(17) Cool Japanese Cat Ears Reveal Feelings by Reading Brainwave
(18) “China has officially blocked Flipboard,” says CEO
Business
(19) Softbank’s Ted Matsumoto on his CEO and the Japan Earthquake
(20) BliBli: A New Player in Indonesian E-Commerce
(21) Tencent Boosts Video Content Strategy [UPDATED]
(22) AsiaOne Launches Daily Deals Syndication
(23) Facebook, Baidu Tops in Brand Value Growth [REPORT]
(24) Alibaba Group Confirms Acquisition of CNZZ
(25) 5 Ways Social Media Has Impacted The Singapore General Election
(26) Rovio Scores Angry Birds Tie-up in China, Aims For 100 Million Downloads
(27) A Look at Jiayuan.com, the Latest Chinese IPO
(28) Baidu Continues To Profit After Google Withdrawal
(29) Taobao Helps Levi’s, Gap and Now Ray-Ban Enter China
(30) Indonesia’s TelkomVision Joins With Irdeto To Improve Pay TV
(31) iPhone Giveaway Backfires For Groupon China
(32) Indonesia’s Telkom Speedy and Telkomsel Flash Combine into SpeedyFlash
(33) Android Market Expands to 131 Countries – But Not China
(34) The Mobile Industry in India [INFOGRAPHIC]
(35) How China’s Alibaba.com Fights Fraud for Future Growth
(36) Baidu and Microsoft Partnership [UPDATED]
(37) Indonesia Ranks As The 11th Worst Pirating Nation
Start-ups
(38) One of Indonesia’s Best Entrepreneurs [INTERVIEW]
(39) Livlis: Auctions Made Simple Through Twitter Social Graph
(40) Katapedia: An Upcoming Digital Media Monitoring Tool in Indonesia
(41) IniTV, The First Internet Television Channel in Indonesia
(42) 10 Things I Learned About Entrepreneurship
Tech culture and creative
(43) Funny Yam Ah Mee Turns Into A Popular Figure On The Internet
(44) Beijing Hungry for iPhone Cookies
(45) Musical Acts Wimp Out On Japan, NMA Animates It
(46) OMG… Yam Ah Mee is Popular in Australia
(47) 500 Million Facebook Friends to Sina Weibo [VIDEO]
(48) Indonesia Instant Noodle Becomes a Rap Song on YouTube
(49) Rebecca Black’s Friday, Sung in Chinese
(50) Yam Ah Mee Invites Fans to Movie on YouTube
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