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Indonesia’s Vida raises series A round, appoints new advisors

Indonesia’s Vida raises series A round, appoints new advisors

One of Vida’s new key advisors is Tony Fadell, who was a former advisor to Apple’s CEO.
Gabriel Budi Sutrisno · · 2 min read
Jungle, Alpha JWC join Indonesian digital verification startup’s pre-series A round

Jungle, Alpha JWC join Indonesian digital verification startup’s pre-series A round

One of Vida’s founders is Niki Luhur, is former CEO of Kartuku, a payment gateway company acquired by Gojek in 2018.
Aditya Hadi Pratama · · 2 min read
16 of Asia’s top photo apps to take on Instagram

16 of Asia’s top photo apps to take on Instagram

There are still hundreds of millions of untapped smartphone users out there who could easily be swiped away from Instagram.
Kylee McIntyre · · 5 min read
Instagram has been blocked in China for a month. What will take its place?

Instagram has been blocked in China for a month. What will take its place?

With the prospect of the country’s favorite photo sharing app never making a comeback, what will fill the void?
Paul Bischoff · · 3 min read
Chinese Photo App Adds PM2.5 Image Filter, As If Air Isn’t Already Polluted Enough

Chinese Photo App Adds PM2.5 Image Filter, As If Air Isn’t Already Polluted Enough

This week I noticed that the Chinese photo-sharing app Vida had joined in the national discussion about China’s polluted skies by adding a PM2.5 photo filter. When the filter is
Steven Millward · · 3 min read

6 Reasons Video-Sharing Apps Were the Biggest Startup Letdown of 2012

This time last year I was raving, I was gushing, all over startups making video-sharing apps. I named one such venture as one of my standout Chinese startups of 2011,
Steven Millward · · 4 min read

Evolving at the Speed of Light, 2 Chinese Photo-Sharing Apps Add Voice Comments

That was fast. Just a few weeks after some ‘Instagram with voice’ startup apps emerged into the limelight, two of China’s established photo-sharing services have already rolled out voice comments.
Steven Millward · · 2 min read

One Chinese App Store Holds a Beauty Pageant for Android Apps

I’ve long believed that Google needs to do more to push for and promote beautiful-looking Android apps – preferably by splashing out a fair amount of its profits to top
Steven Millward · · 3 min read

10 Chinese Social Video-Sharing Apps to Watch in 2012

As so often happens in the Chinese web landscape, there’s already a very healthy amount of competition amongst what some people think will be the hottest type of app in
Steven Millward · · 5 min read

Funky Photo-Filter App Vida Brings the Photo-Grunging to Android As Well As iPhone

The Chinese startup Vida has launched an Android version of its photo-sharing app, giving it a cross-platform cousin to its iPhone variant. Vida is perhaps the funkiest of all the
Steven Millward · · 2 min read