A couple of weeks ago we reported on the acquisition of a few Asian Groupon clones as well as the company’s expansion plans to the Southeast Asian region. While it explicitly mentioned Singapore, Hong Kong, The Philippines, and Taiwan, it said nothing of the rest of the ASEAN countries.…
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Koprol has finally launched a beta version of the site optimized for touchscreen users which should keep us happy until it’s ready to release its mobile apps. It is still however being restricted to those who participate in its beta access program. While it is not open for the…
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Tonight marks the third time Koprol is being taken down for an extended period in one month to install new features which apparently require the site to be deactivated. Barely one week ago we noted that the Yahoo service had added Bump to allow posts to be promoted…
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Rakuten, the Japanese ecommerce giant, has gone live in Indonesia. After confirming its joint venture agreement earlier this year with PT Global Mediacom Tbk, Indonesia’s largest media company, it revealed its Indonesian teaser website and logo through a press release.
The joint venture plans to begin operation sometime…
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Yahoo’s Koprol seems to be rolling out a handful of new features at a time as the year draws to a close. A couple of weeks ago it slightly cleaned up the layout of the website and added geolocation support to both the standard site and the mobile version.…
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Any startup acquisition story usually sets off speculations and varied guesses on the acquisition amount. While some companies are forthcoming about it, most companies keep it as a heavily guarded secret.
With Groupon acquiring three startups last week, we thought this would be a good time to revisit…
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The second Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon is officially underway. The worldwide event to technologically identify, manage, and solve global issues has kicked off in Jakarta and Singapore, the first of more than 20 cities around the world listed as official hosts of the event.
Around 80 software engineers,…
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Bubble Motion announced that it has partnered with XL Axiata to bring voice blogging to Indonesia in a big way. As internet users in the country are gripped in social media hysteria, the US company sees an opportunity to seize the market differently.
Using its patented voice SMS…
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(Updated) Scoop for the iPad, the product of Singapore- and Jakarta-based development house AppsFoundry*, is something magazine junkies in this region have high hopes for. By selling digitized magazines released by publishers in Indonesia and Malaysia, Scoop plans to fill in a niche yet to be claimed by Zinio, Conde Nast,…
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It’s not often we find Internet based startups with large user traction by focusing solely on the South East Asian market. The few
that have achieved this are, Koprol, BuzzCity and mig33. Last week, we wrote a backgrounder on mig33 – covering its…
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