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Fired TheMobileGamer staff voice grievances online, CEO Alvin Yap responds

Fired TheMobileGamer staff voice grievances online, CEO Alvin Yap responds

Update: Elaboration from Vichi Lestari about Indonesian labor law and whether companies are obliged to follow it. Singapore startup TheMobileGamer (TMG) is going through a shake-up, and this was confirmed
Terence Lee · · 5 min read
Before succeeding, being a startup founder sucks big time

Before succeeding, being a startup founder sucks big time

Update: For greater accuracy on facts, we made minor changes to the fourth paragraph based on information we learned from Alvin Yap. At the Founder Institute Singapore graduation event yesterday,
Terence Lee · · 3 min read
TMG Founder: Singaporeans Have a Tough Time Expanding to Developing Markets

TMG Founder: Singaporeans Have a Tough Time Expanding to Developing Markets

Singapore is considered a developed market, but developing markets are all around it. This evening at a Founder Institute event, TMG’s founder Alvin Yap, who recently raised more than a
Willis Wee · · 2 min read
Kotagames and XL Axiata Launch Developer Network Focused on Web Games

Kotagames and XL Axiata Launch Developer Network Focused on Web Games

Yesterday, Indonesian telco XL Axiata (EXCL:IJ) and gaming platform Kotagames launched a program called the XL Developer Network. The program is meant to help grow the local game developer ecosystem,
Enricko Lukman · · 3 min read

Kotagames and XL Axiata Launch Developer Network Focused on Web Games

Yesterday, Indonesian telco XL Axiata (EXCL:IJ) and gaming platform Kotagames launched a program called the XL Developer Network. The program is meant to help grow the local game developer ecosystem,
Enricko Lukman · · 2 min read

Alvin Yap Talks about Monetizing the Feature Phone Industry [INTERVIEW]

Alvin Yap, CEO and founder of TMG Readers may recall when we discussed feature phone business opportunities in Indonesia with Andy Zain. Continuing that discussion, we spoke with Alvin Yap,
Enricko Lukman · · 7 min read

TMG Boasts 3 Million Users, 100x Growth in a Year

If you pay attention to startups in Singapore and Indonesia, you have probably heard about The Mobile Gamer (TMG), a startup that builds mobile games on platforms like mig33, as
Willis Wee · · 2 min read

Discussion Panel: Starting up in Singapore: the Good and the Bad [LIVEBLOG]

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
Steven Millward · · 3 min read

TheMobileGamer on Asia and its Plan for Indonesia [INTERVIEW]

TMG, or TheMobileGamer, creates mobile social games that run on Kotagames.com such as Club Wars Advance, Trade Wars and Mobile Fight. Last month, we reported that Singapore-based TMG raised $1
Joshua Kevin · · 2 min read

Singapore’s TMG Raises S$1 Million From One97 Mobility Fund

Singapore-based TheMobileGamer (TMG) has secured its second round of funding at S$1 million (US$819,000) solely led by One97MobilityFund. This takes the total amount of investment to S$1.5 million with Innosight
Willis Wee · · 2 min read
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