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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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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,
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.
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
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
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




