Google’s Sergey Brin at Web 2.0 Summit
While not specifically related to the Asia Online Marketing scene, we thought this interview of Google’s Sergey Brin at last week’s Web2.0 Summit was quite interesting at a general level. Of the points discussed were Brin’s views on Bing and Yahoo, the recent deal with Twitter and Google’s Social Search implementation which launched yesterday.
TechCrunch TokyoCamp on November 6th…
TechCrunch Japan is hosting another TokyoCamp on Friday November 6. TokyoCamp is the Japanese equivalent of TechCrunch’s TC50 event which invites a number of startups to demo their Software, Service or Product in a ‘Demo Pit’ followed by lots of networking with key Web and Tech influencers. This is the 2nd ever TokyoCamp, and
2009 Study by Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA)
I thought I’d share this very interesting survey conducted by the self described voice and advocate for the Digital Marketing industry in Asia, the ADMA (Asia Digital Marketing Association). This it the 3rd yearbook conducted by the ADMA and is supported by some of the most prominent entities in Digital Marketing, including DoubleClick, Microsoft Advertising
Ex-Google China head eyes mobile, cloud computing
Lee Kai-Fu, who recently left Google China to start his own company – Innovation Works is now eyeing cloud computing, e-commerce and the mobile platform industry for some of his first investments (See interview with Reuters, Hong Kong). The fund hopes to fill a gap in China for seed capital and aims to nurture 20
Baidu launches Mobile Search applications..
It looks like Baidu are well on their way to implementing the Mobile strategy they set out a couple of months ago. The latest in the Chinese search-market battle between Baidu and Google, is Baidu’s announcement yesterday that they are launching a number of mobile applications with a local carrier. This move is quicker than
Japan and Cloud Computing: The Kasumigaseki Cloud
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about Australia’s ambitious Gov 2.0 plan, and it’s MashUp Australia competition, which allows and encourages programmers to develop applications that access streams of open Government Data. In light of the above we thought it was also worth blogging about the recent report released by the Japanese government: ‘ICT
Healthcare Reform – Startups in China
Few weeks ago, I wrote on China being the next Silicon Valley and the potential of new business models being incubated that is specific to the Chinese market – well saw this interesting article on TechCrunch “Healthcare Reform, Chinese Startup Style” – Seems like business model that is specific to China is starting to sprout
Reverse brain drain
The reverse brain drain is here to stay. I had written earlier about the H1B bottleneck being an opportunity for India/China to attract talent back to India. At a recent gathering of the Think India Foundation, when polled, over 2/3rds of the audience stated that they would like to return home. It is no longer
Developers… Open Hack in SouthEast Asia…
Yahoo’s famed Open Hack developer event is coming to SE Asia for the first time. While it will be hosted in Jakarta, the event is open to 200 Developers from across the whole region… so better Sign Up quick. In addition, there are some developer competitions being run in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam…
Twitter text in India
Airtel – India’s largest mobile network – has launched an ‘exclusive’ deal with twitter. Its subscribers will be able to tweet directly onto their twitter accounts using a text message. Further, such tweets will be delivered as text messages to all Airtel subscribers who are registered as tweet subscribers. It is an interesting concept, but
