The TWIA crew is back without Mike Foong this week. We glanced through the recent BlackBerry Bold 9700 launch by RIM in Singapore, where BL has an “embarassing” encounter with Denise Keller, from MTV Asia. After that short and funny anecdote, the crew discussed the follow up to the Friendster acquisition by MOL Global last week to exactly how much they are being priced, with the mobile social networking platform, Mozat raising Series A Funding From JAFCO Asia and the entrance of India’s GupShup into the Southeast Asia market. Finally, the crew looks at the implications of Internet Filtering and Censorship in Australia based on the “CleanFeed” trial.
From This Week in Asia: (You can also listen to the podcast in SGE as well)
- The BlackBerry Bold 9700 Smartphone Event in Singapore: A short account on the Blackberry Apps World with local apps Foyage and Golden Village (for booking movies online) featured.
- Friendster Valued At Just $26.4 Million In Sale: Is Friendster worth really worth that much? Did MOL made a good buy?
- Mozat Raises Series A Funding From JAFCO Asia: We discuss the impact of mobile social networking for non smart phone devices and apps like Mozat and her competitors, Mig33 for emerging economies in Southeast Asia in the podcast.
- Australian Internet Censorship Given the Go Ahead – But What’s the Alternative?: The Australian Government have just finished their controversial Internet Filtering/Censorship trial, known as the “Cleanfeed”. Does that make Australia look like China?
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