This Week in Asia

(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) As Steve Jobs always say in his keynote, "there's just one more thing ...." Over here in TWIA, we have managed to obtain one more special interview during Echelon 2010 (before our 50th episode). Varsha Rao, CEO, SingTel (http://www...

(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) In our special interview series before the magic 50th episode, we have Sean Bonner (http://seanbonner.com/) (@seanbonner) from Bode Media (http://bodemediainc.com/) and Neoteny Labs (http://www.neotenylabs.com/) on our studio. Whil...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) How is the venture incubator space emerging in China after Lee Kaifu's departure from Google China to create Innovation Works? What is the current trends in the Chinese market and how does it differ from Singapore. Following our sp...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) An old friend of the show, Gen Kanai (http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/) (@Gen), Director of Asia Business Development at Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.com), will be coming down to Echelon 2010. He will be presenting different case studie...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) The TWIA crew is back for their weekly discussion on the hottest web and tech news that dominate Asia. We made a glance on the recent Chlkboard Developer Event and Google I/O conference, followed by the plans of TenCent to do globa...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) What's the story behind Chlkboard and what followed after the launch of the first beta in 21 days? Joining us in TWIA in conjunction with Echelon 2010, Saumil Nanavati, CEO and co-founder of Chlkboard came on our virtual studio and...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) Last year, Ian McFarland, the VP Technology from Pivotal Labs came to Singapore to attend the Neoteny Conference. Since then, they have begun to set up their operations in Singapore. So, in this special episode in conjunction with...

(http://thisweekinasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TWiA-logo.gif) Continuing our special interview series for Echelon 2010, we have Ian McKee from Vocanic on our studio to tell us about the story of Vocanic, and how it has deployed word of mouth marketing, social media and technology to help bran...