Here you can find some interesting startup news from Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other their tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These listed news are taken from our partner, DailySocial, a leading blog on Indonesia’s tech startup scene.
(1) Koprol, a location-based social network, introduced its revamped website as well as plans to monetize further through stamps.
(2) Rakuten Belanja Online (RBO), an e-commerce webstite, is now offering Cash On Delivery (COD) that enables customers to pay after the goods is delivered, not before.
(3) Along with the announced release of the PlayBook tablet, which took place on July 7, 2011, the media giant Kompas announced the Kompas.com app for BlackBerry PlayBook which of course can be downloaded for free.
(4) One Swedish company owned by an Indonesian, MySellr.com, an online shopping platform, is preparing to enter the market and serve users in Indonesia.
(5) Nielsen discovered that 48 percent of Indonesian internet users are on mobile phones with an additional 13 percent using other handheld devices. In terms of percentage, this surpasses all other countries in the region with only 36 percent of internet users in Thailand and 35 percent in Singapore preferring to use mobile phones.
This has been brought to you by SGE and DailySocial. DailySocial is a blog that covers the Indonesian tech startup scene. They publish in both Indonesian and English.
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