Why KakaoTalk Will Win the TV Ad Battlefield in Indonesia
TV advertisements have proven to work very well for chat apps in Indonesia. China-based WeChat and J...
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The Founding Story of Wanchat Padungrat’s Pantip
Founded in 1997, Pantip.com is the largest online discussion forum in Thailand with 30 million uniqu...
Angry Smartfren Users Still Mad Due to Company’s Very Late Explanation
Yesterday, the fiasco made by Indonesian telco and handset manufacturer Smartfren made news all over...
No More 3G in North Korea for Tourists
Well, that was fast. Just weeks after allowing tourists to North Korea to purchase SIM cards with 3G...
Kreditmart Lets Indonesians Purchase Goods in Installments Without Credit Cards
Credit card adoption in Indonesia is still very slow, with only 13.4 million credit cards issued up ...
Japan’s Metaps Teams Up With Appota To Monetize Apps in Vietnam
Metaps, the Android monetization platform out of Japan that just secured $11 million in series B fun...
Samsung Pours Another $3.2 Billion Into Vietnam
Samsung (005930:KS) built its first manufacturing plant in Vietnam in 2009, pumping in US$700 millio...
Connection Error: Indonesian Telco Smartfren Under Fire Amidst Prolonged Internet Problems
Indonesian telco and handset manufacturer Smartfren is in hot water right now as there are a huge nu...
Not A Basement Studio Releases KeepShot: iPad App For Photo Editing and Delivery Service
Vietnamese app developer team Not A Basement Studio, whom I interviewed earlier this month, has rele...
Gungho’s ‘Puzzle and Dragons’ Probably Made Up to $86 Million In Sales Last Month
The crazy Puzzle and Dragons boom in Japan continues – and it gets even crazier. Maker GungHo (...
Scoop Partners With Major Publishers in India, Singapore, and the Philippines
Scoop, the e-reader newsstand app, continues to expand its publisher partnerships in India, Singapor...
CheckInTonight Books Your Hotels at the Very Last Minute
Cambodia’s CheckInTonight is a mobile app that helps users find hotels and book them quickly a...
SoftBank to Take Majority Stake In ‘Puzzle and Dragons’ Maker GungHo
With the investment, the telco’s stake in the Puzzle and Dragons game maker increases from 33.6 to...
LoveByte: 100,000 Downloads, 3 Million Messages Sent
About eight months after LoveByte was first launched, the couples’ messaging app today has more th...
AdzCentral’s Story and How it Connects the Dots in Ad Tech
Ad tech is quite a confusing arena for most folks. There are a number of stakeholders in the game ra...
Keewi’s Story and and Some Tips on How To Run a Startup in Vietnam
At Startup Asia, Mike Tran will swing by to give us all an introduction to the Vietnamese startup an...
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