This Week in Asia

This Week, it is the aftermath of TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing, Asia D, Silicon Valley Comes 2 Malaysia, Sparxup and Geeks on the Plane.Bernard will give the scoop on Techcrunch Disrupt Beijing and Joash of E27 (http://www.e27.sg) will share his insights on SVC2M, while Daniel shares about his Geek...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) As promised, our special guest last week, Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) from TechCrunch and Asiajin, is in our virtual studio to talk about Mixi Meetup 2010. Organized by Mixi, one of the top social networks in Japan launching new APIs...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) While the Apple keynote with new iPod designs flood the web-tech space, the TWIA crew are inundated with news from the upcoming conference Accelerate (organized by E27, SingTel & Neoteny Labs) where the names of the top 50 apps are...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) Our TWIA producer, Mike Foong is finally back with the crew in the virtual studio after 3 months of hiatus, with also one of our highest recurring special guests, Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) from TechCrunch in Japan to talk about the...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) Starting off with congrats to Mike Foong with his 4th kid, Myra Ines Foong, the TWIA crew is back to discuss the interesting stories that dominate the Asian mobile, web & tech landscape this week. While we look back at Open Web Asi...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) The acquisition of Koprol by Yahoo is probably the most important tech event which rocked Southeast Asia this year. With the founders of Koprol (http://www.koprol.com), Fajar Budiprasetyo & Daniel Armanto together with our dear Smi...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) Coming live from Echelon 2010 on 2 June with the largest panel ever assembled and a major announcement, the TWIA crew is in full force for the 1st time with interesting threads of discussion ever pursued. With the major announcemen...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) The first of the special episodes, as TWIA is a supporting media partner for Echelon 2010 (http://www.echelon2010.com), we bring together two special guests, Mohan Belani the lead organizer and his team from E27 Singapore (http://e...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) The TWIA crew gathers before the Chinese New Year on Valentine's day with our typical ramblings with Google Nexus One and Google Buzz. Following on, we continue an interesting joint venture between Baidu (China's top search engine)...