Tag: Asia
Twitter brand pages has landed in Japan
Twitter has launched pages for brands in Japan, four months after it was introduced in the US last December and DoCoMo, Lawson and Warner Entertainment are said to be among the first companies that will be using the service in Asia, after US and UK.
![Pirika, Japan’s Garbage Picker and Mission to Cleaning the World [startup]](http://evanhugh.com/wp-content/themes/wp-davinci/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://evanhugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Screen-shot-2012-01-04-at-3.20.58-PM-150x100.png&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Pirika, Japan’s Garbage Picker and Mission to Cleaning the World [startup]")
Pirika, Japan’s Garbage Picker and Mission to Cleaning the World [startup]
Type Pirika into the search engine and dozens of nonsensical terms come into view, as random LinkedIn profiles one doesn’t even bother to know more about. Yet scroll down a little further and there appears a rare headline that makes any environmental geek cheer. Last month in December Techcruch reveals some interesting Japanese startups, one [...]
Angry Birds sling its way into the bank
It looks like Angry Birds have another target in sight. The popular computer game which has taken the world by storm is planning an Initial Public Offering (IPO) at the Hong Kong stock exchange. This move does not come as a surprise considering that the game which was introduced in Apple’s App Store in 2009 has managed to [...]
![Meet the winning team of Disrupt Battlefield Beijing 2011 [OrderWithMe]](http://evanhugh.com/wp-content/themes/wp-davinci/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://evanhugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Screen-Shot-2011-11-01-at-16.21.25-150x99.png&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Meet the winning team of Disrupt Battlefield Beijing 2011 [OrderWithMe]")
Meet the winning team of Disrupt Battlefield Beijing 2011 [OrderWithMe]
Have you checked out on all the Battlefield finalists? What we have here is what I have gathered from the presentation with some of interesting Q&A, following presentation sequence; United Styles [presentation] – sketch like a fashion design, create and share. An online app which allow you to practically design your own cloth and review them [...]
LivingSocial to acquire Korean (and Malaysian) deal provider TicketMonster
Just last week we have reported LivingSocial’s acquisition of Indonesia’s Ensogo and DealKeren, and UAE’s GoNabit for its expansion plan to Asia which happened in late June, and earlier today LivingSocial announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TicketMonster Inc., the leading social commerce website in South Korea. The agreement is however subject to [...]
Japan’s CyberAgent Ventures is vastly expanding!
After a recent $1 million investment in Taiwan’s restaurant review website iPeen in May, CyberAgent Ventures is set to have its own office in Taipei, Taiwan. According to the company, it has given a great focus on Taiwan as there is abundance of entrepreneurs in Taiwan and the popularity of the Internet is very high [...]
