Phroni

The company behind Phroni, Linkify, and Linkplaza will use the new funds for deeper research into “entity linking.”

Remember the useful tool from our Startup Arena contest last year that creates links out of certain text in a browser? It’s called Phroni. Having been available for a while

Readers may recall Japanese startup Phroni from our Startup Asia conference in Singapore last February. The service, from Studio Ousia, facilitates smartphone browsing by converting certain notable words that a

Startup Asia Jakarta 2012, hosted by Tech in Asia, is pleased to invite startups across Asia to apply for the upcoming Startup Arena competition to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June

Fresh of its recent 70 million yen (about $864,000) funding round, Japan-based Studio Ousia Inc. – the developer of a ‘smarter’ smartphones/tablet browsing experience – has released its product to

While mobile apps may be all there rage right now, startups are still doing very interesting things in the web space. Here, we present you the good, bad, and ugly

Anyone who attended our recent Startup Asia conference in Singapore earlier this month will recall Ikuya Yamada, who pitched his solution for a ‘smarter’ smartphone/tablet browsing experience called Phroni (see

This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click