Fokado is one of the startups that has just graduated from the Jakarta Founders Institute two weeks ago. Fokado is trying to provide an alternative way for you to give someone a gift. So, rather than giving ...

Having lived in Beijing for close to a year, I’m used to the full four seasons (as opposed to here in Singapore) and understand how annoying it is trying to pick up a call or replying to a message during ...

Heres a brief history of three of the worlds largest companies, and the people who started them.

Sameer is partner at August Capital Partners , a VC fund focused on early stage consumer products and services businesses. You can follow him on Twitter @sameernarula. Founded in the 14th century as Sinhapura, ...

File this one under ‘people are vain’ and ‘not great publicity for Android.’ Some users of Tencent’s (HKG:0700.HK - News) social network and IM service, QQ , are paying one of several dubious hackers up to 8 RMB ...

Fresh off its recent rebranding , mobile advertising company InMobi is off to a strong start in 2012, today announcing that it has landed an exclusive two-year advertising deal with Indonesia’s largest ...

We take ethics and transparency very seriously here at Penn Olson, and we strive to provide you with coverage that is fair, accurate, and transparent. To accomplish that, we operate our site based on the ...

China’s online space is home to over 500 million netizens , homegrown social networks and a thriving e-commerce market. While companies similar to eBay , Amazon , and Groupon exist, e-commerce has emerged ...

Funny thing: it turns out that Chinese authorities are really good at enforcing copyright, though only when the claimant is Chinese. Imagine that. And so this week was characterized by a sometimes fierce, ...

LiveJournal Singapore  announced yesterday that all 50,000 blogshops in Singapore will now be able to enjoy more e-commerce features through its brand new ‘LJ Checkout’ platform.LJ Checkout will provide ...

In the last seven days, we have had a couple of Asian tech startups on our radar, specifically from China, Indonesia, Japan, India, and Singapore.For folks who are interested in investing or partnering ...

Ka-ching! Great news for entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia this Monday morning. Golden Gate Ventures , we have been told directly, is a newly set-up US$10 million venture fund focusing on startups in Southeast ...

China's police are on the back end of a three-month long crackdown on cybercrime, and apparently, they've found an awful lot of it. Over the course of the crackdown, police told Xinhua, they cleaned up ...

Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME - News), China’s second-largest online gaming company, has lost its president, ‘Tony’ Ling Hai (pictured right), who has resigned from the company. Mr. Ling has done so in order to go ...

The Wanda Group is basically ubiquitous in China. The mega-company, which is itself a subsidiary of the China National United Oil Corporation, has its hands in everything from commercial real estate to ...

Tuanbao , the group buy clone that snagged the Groupon.cn domain before Groupon could, is in trouble. That much has been clear for a while . But, like many group buy sites looking to change things up as ...

Payment, Payment, Payment. That seems to be the biggest problem needing to be solved in the Indonesian e-commerce ecosystem right now. Previously we have looked at efforts by Indomog , Inapay , and UNIK ...

Back in December we told you about Japan-based Metaps Inc., a smartphone monetization platform, which at that time had raised $4.2 million from various venture capital firms. And now today we received ...