What happened in the Asian technology scene last week? Here are five must read stories for last week:
(1) Facebook opened its second Asian sales office in Hong Kong, which caters for both Taiwan and Hong Kong market. The new office is also strategically placed to target China in the future, we believe.
(2) Microsoft launched its Office Web Apps (Microsoft’s version of Google Doc) in India and South East Asia. But sadly, the head of Microsoft India, Ravi Venkatesan left after serving the company for 6 years.
(3) We interviewed two Indonesian founders, Deasy Leann of Freesia City and William Tanuwijaya of Tokopedia, on their strategies and story behind their start-ups.
(4) Apple is believed to be working on a smaller and cheaper iPhone for the Asian market. Don’t keep your hopes too high, though.
(5) Firefly Millward Brown released a qualitative research, which surfaced some key findings on the way Asians interact with social media. 19 more below
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(6) Crisis in Egypt in an Infographic… and China
(7) How AIMI Indonesian Moms use BlackBerry Messenger
(8) IBM partners with Chinese Company to build Asia’s Largest Cloud Center
(9) Japan, China rank Top 5 in Global Patent Applications Ranking
(10) This Facebook China Looks so Real
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