Now Everyone is Making Smartphones: Shanda’s Smartphones To Launch On June 6

So the new big thing for tech giants in China is to make smartphones, it seems. Shanda (NASDAQ:SNDA), also the creator of the famous Bambook e-reader, is set to launch its long awaited Android-based smartphone on June 6 this summer, according to a TechWeb report.

While reports of the specifications vary, the price looks to be fixed at 999 and 1,199 RMB, which is about US$190 on the high end. No specific name for the phone was announced yet. But given Shanda’s experience and success with the Bambook e-reader, the phone should be an interesting one to watch.

It is also interesting to observe all the other tech giants venturing to make Android smartphones in China. Baidu has one coming with its Android-reworked Yi OS, and Xiaomi hit it biggest so far claiming $156 million in monthly revenue. Alibaba also has smartphones to offer with its Aliyun mobile OS. We also reported earlier this morning on Samsung’s low-cost Android based phone with a starting price from 1,158 RMB (US$183).

There will be a lot of cheap smartphones available in China, and overall that’s a good thing for the Chinese consumers. But each phone will be packed with it’s own lineup of services. For example, Xiaomi is pre-installed with Miliao (rather than the more popular WeChat) while Baidu has its Ting and Maps apps installed. Aliyun phones are integrated with Alipay and Aliyun Mart to spur mobile commerce, I believe. While iPhones are still luxury phones in China, Android OS is more likely to get the love of the masses in China.

Folks have always said that mobile is going to be a big huge in China. So I guess there’s no harm for the tech giants to splash a little budget to get a slice of the smartphone pie. The main business isn’t about selling phones, it’s more about promoting the services inside the them.

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Fetch Plus selected for the Gust.com / Astia International Women’s Day Scholarship

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Fetch Plus led by Carmen Benitez, has been selected as a Featured Start-up is the only Singapore-based company represented in the Gust.com / Astia International Women’s Day Scholarship. The scholarship aims to highlight the extraordinary women leaders of high-potential startups by awarding entrance into Astia’s Fall 2012 Global Entrepreneur Program in Silicon Valley.

Their technology FetchFans.com fetches fans for franchises through social media. It provides scalable brand control for brand franchises to quickly launch and update facebook pages adapted to the local markets all in a single click with no coding required.

Fetch Plus is one of 61 top women run start-ups selected as a featured start-up by Gust.com through the Women’s International Day Scholarship. Gust.com is the world’s preeminent entrepreneur/investor platform. Gust is endorsed by the world’s leading business angel and venture capital associations, and powers over 750 investment organizations in 65 countries. More than 125,000 start-ups have already used the platform to connect and collaborate with over 35,000 individual accredited investors.

“We are honored to join Astia in celebrating International Women’s Day by showcasing the innovation and excellence among the women-led startup community,” said Ilana Grossman, vice president of marketing at Gust. “Growth and empowerment in the startup arena cannot be achieved without the skilled leadership and full participation of women in entrepreneurship.”

For more information on fetchplus and fetchfans visit their website here. Fetch Plus pitched their product, Fetch Fans, at Echelon 2011.

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Fetch Plus selected for the Gust.com / Astia International Women’s Day Scholarship

Photo:FetchFans

Fetch Plus led by Carmen Benitez, has been selected as a Featured Start-up is the only Singapore-based company represented in the Gust.com / Astia International Women’s Day Scholarship. The scholarship aims to highlight the extraordinary women leaders of high-potential startups by awarding entrance into Astia’s Fall 2012 Global Entrepreneur Program in Silicon Valley.

Their technology FetchFans.com fetches fans for franchises through social media. It provides scalable brand control for brand franchises to quickly launch and update facebook pages adapted to the local markets all in a single click with no coding required.

Fetch Plus is one of 61 top women run start-ups selected as a featured start-up by Gust.com through the Women’s International Day Scholarship. Gust.com is the world’s preeminent entrepreneur/investor platform. Gust is endorsed by the world’s leading business angel and venture capital associations, and powers over 750 investment organizations in 65 countries. More than 125,000 start-ups have already used the platform to connect and collaborate with over 35,000 individual accredited investors.

“We are honored to join Astia in celebrating International Women’s Day by showcasing the innovation and excellence among the women-led startup community,” said Ilana Grossman, vice president of marketing at Gust. “Growth and empowerment in the startup arena cannot be achieved without the skilled leadership and full participation of women in entrepreneurship.”

For more information on fetchplus and fetchfans visit their website here. Fetch Plus pitched their product, Fetch Fans, at Echelon 2011.

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FusionCharts Powers 1 Billion Charts A Month, Launches Beginners Guide

I interviewed the founder of India-based FusionCharts, Pallav Nadhani, about a year ago. It was great fun documenting his story. As we noted then, story of FusionCharts started when he was age 17. He found charts boring and thought they could be made sexier and more interactive.

He founded FusionCharts in 2002 and since then, the product has been used by some big names in the web world, including Google (Google Docs), LinkedIn, and Weather.com. FusionCharts also proudly claims that it is powering over one billion charts each month globally. It is also a highly profitable business, I hear. All this was achieved without any funding. FusionCharts bootstrapped its way to success, and that kind of success is hard to come by these days.

One billion charts is no small feat. Here at Tech in Asia, our team is fans of charts made from Google Docs. You can see them embedded on our site from time to time. But FusionCharts is more than just charts on Google Docs. It could also be used for customized reports and dashboards for businesses. To make it easier for folks to learn more about FusionCharts, Nadhani and his team have recently launched a beginners guide for the service. Sanket Nadhani, the lead author of the book told me:

Packt, famous for its practical guides in the web dev space (especially on niche technologies) was looking for authors to write a book on FusionCharts on Twitter and we were like – hey, it’s our book and we could do a decent job of it. A couple of emails and phone calls later, we decided to make it the official guide to FusionCharts.

You can find out more info about the book here.

FushionCharts looks to be moving quickly with big plans. It plans to launch Collabion, a charting solution exclusively for SharePoint by the end of this quarter. It is also working on Oomfo, a charting plugin exclusively for PowerPoint. By October this year, FusionCharts will officially be a ten-year old company. We certainly think it has been pretty productive so far!

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Eduardo Saverin could save over half a billion dollars by renouncing US Citizenship

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The biggest piece of tech related news this weekend was that Eduardo Saverin, Co-Founder of Facebook had renounced his US Citizenship last autumn. In this article, we take a closer look.

This first part about the tax system is pretty dry, if you wish to skip it scroll to the bottom for discussion. Let’s start with a very basic comparison of the relevant points in the taxation system between Singapore and the US.

Singapore’s tax system is on a territorial basis, this means only income earned in Singapore is taxed, with a progressive personal income tax rate of up to a maximum of 20 percent, and no tax on capital gains. Capital gains is defined as “A profit from the sale of property or of an investment”. For more information check out the IRAS website.

Source:IRAS Website

The US on the other hand taxes its citizens on a worldwide basis. This exposes the individual to double taxation, so if you happen to be resident in Singapore but have US citizenship, you will be obligated to pay tax on whatever you earn to both the Singapore and US government. In addition to this, the US has a minimum of 15 percent capital gains tax, along with a higher rate of personal income tax for the higher income brackets.

As far as anyone knows, Eduardo Saverin has been resident in Singapore for more than 183 days in the last 12 month tax period, which classifies him as a Singapore Tax Resident. According to the reports, Eduardo is a Brazilian Citizen but a Singapore Resident. Because Brazil’s tax system is also on a territorial basis, he would not owe taxes on income to the Brazilian Government.

Right, now let’s do our sums. If Eduardo owns four percent of Facebook, and according to Bloomberg Facebook is seeking as much as US $96 billion in its IPO, that makes Eduardo’s four percent worth US $3.84 billion. If he should have to pay the 15 percent Capital Gains tax to the US Government, this would mean handing over a whopping US $576 Million.

Now that we have done a bit of research and our sums, lets think about this for a minute.

Pretty much all over the internet, there have been comments criticizing him for trying to escape those taxes even though he “owes” his success to the US. My view is that, yes, that would be true only if you consider the US Government a spectacularly good allocator of funds. If Eduardo was an ordinary citizen with an average income, it is doubtful he would have either the ability or the time to allocate the funds in such a way to make a huge impact on society at large. However, lets keep in mind that firstly, Eduardo is a professional investor, and much like Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs et al who were almost obsessive about minimizing taxes, he probably believes he is a better allocator of funds than the government. I tend to agree with this. The US government is very unlikely to invest in early stage startups that will eventually hire people and generate taxes for example.

My second thought on the issue is global competitiveness. Let’s face it, high net worth individuals are hot property. Every government in their right mind wants them to be a resident because of the impact they could have on the economy. I think Eduardo giving up his US Citizenship is going to be good for the US in the long run due to the publicity involved. There were thousands of high net worth US Citizens who gave up their Citizenship in the same list as Eduardo, but because Facebook is such a big deal, this hits the news hard. Hopefully the publicity will effect some policy changes to make the US more attractive.

Finally, with big names such as Derek Sivers, Vincent Lauria, and now Eduardo Saverin choosing to base themselves in Singapore, only time will tell if these individuals are just choosing to park themselves (and their cash) here or if they will choose to invest in local startups. As far as public knowledge goes, Eduardo has already invested in two startups, Perx and ADZ.

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Events For The Week – 12-20 May

For a one-stop to all events related to or concerning entrepreneurship, certain industry-meets-business forums and seminars in Southeast Asia, check out our Calendar. If not, you can also follow our bite-size updated posts for upcoming events for the week.

Events range from simple get-togethers to full-blown conferences. Get to meet fellow developers, entrepreneurs, startup CEOs & founders, and meet & learn from CEOs of established companies who have seen it all.

Our aim here at SGE is to make it easy for you to pick & choose from the event buffet. Enjoy.

Here are the events for this week. Events are mostly in Singapore (generally 30 minutes drive from anywhere), but we also include key events from around Southeast Asia and beyond.

Tuesday 15th May:

(1) [Indonesia] Imagine Cup 2012 Indonesia
(2) [Singapore] Hear about innovation from the “Father of the post-it Notes” 
(3) [Singapore] DestrActions

Wednesday 16th May:

(1) [Malaysia] Imagine Cup 2012 Malaysia Semi-finals and Finals - ends 19th May

Friday 18th May:

(1) [Singapore] Red Dot Ruby Conf - ends 21st May

Saturday, 19th May:

(1) [Singapore] Start-Up@Singapore Awards Ceremony

Image courtesy of joyosity.

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First-ever Walkabout Singapore draws young, diverse crowd

The first-ever Walkabout Singapore, which was held last Friday, saw participation from over 80 companies. Inspired by a similar event in New York, Walkabout is a one-day open house where startups open up their doors to visitors who are eager to find out more about what they do. The event seems to be a success, going by the number of people that came streaming in through the doors. They are a diverse group, consisting of students, young entrepreneurs, executives, and even civil servants.

Full report coming real soon.

In the meantime, check out an interactive map of the journey I took during the event:

Check out our photo album of Walkabout Singapore.

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China’s Group Buying Market is Settling Down, Top Four Locking Down Position

Last year was a tumultuous year for the group buying industry. But as suspected, closure, downsizing and consolidation has cleaned up the market and now the top ten sites are solidifying their positions. Daily deal aggregator and researcher, Dataotuan.com has release their latest 2012, Q1 Report to give some insight into what has been happening.

 

 

 

The Chinese Daily Deal Market in 2012 Q1

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In Q1 2012, the total revenue of the daily deal market is around a whopping 4.5 billion RMB.  But ferocious competition and those who lack the stamina to keep fighting has resulted in the top 10 sites accounting for 78.6% market share.

Dataotuan has segmented the market into five grouping levels. The first level consists of Meituan, 55Tuan, Dianping and Lashou. The characteristics of this group show that they have over 200 Million in monthly revenue, have a total market share of 45-48%. The second level consists of 58Tuan, FTuan, Manzuo, Nuomi and Juhuasuan. The characteristics of this group show that they have monthly revenues of 80-100 Million in monthly revenue, account for 27-29% market share. Who really cares about the other players? Although Dataotuan rightly points out that smaller players in the 3^rd level have the potential to be acquired by 1^st level players who want more dominance or 2^nd level players who want to get into the 1^st level. As of March, Gaopeng, Groupon’s China arm sits at the 11^th position and has never been in the top five.

Interestingly Dataotuan has identified the pricing strategies of different companies. The number one player, Meituan has a strategy is to use a small discount and sell mainly low priced items. This strategy makes sense because most daily deal buyers are already price sensitive and may find it hard to get already cheap things at a bigger discount. This is likely to keep merchants happy, not to gauge them too much on margins.

When I interviewed Michael Jiang, VP of Product and Operations of Dianping last year, I realized that Dianping had a huge opportunity to crush many other players in the group buying space. Dianping’s core advantage is that they were already the go-to source for information about local venues, plus they were shifting more emphasis into mobile. All they had to do was switch on a daily deals feature and it all fits together. Now according to Dataotuan, Dianping’s monthly revenue has been growing at 30% per month since the beginning of 2012, and is likely to take the 3^rd position after Meituan and 55Tuan.

 

 

Related posts:

1. Meituan Obtains Eight-digit USD Second Round Funding
2. QQ Now Leads Group Buying Market with 10%, Lashou Drops to 10th Position
3. Alibaba to Launch Open Platform Serving Group Buying Players

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Samsung Targets Entry-Level Smartphone Market in China with Two New Models

Samsung (005930:KS) recently surpassed Nokia to become the global leader in mobile phone shipments, but apparently the company still wants more. According to a China Daily report over the weekend, the Korean handset maker intends to take a third of China’s entry-level smartphone market this year.

Of course this makes a lot of sense considering two important factors which we have noted here on this blog recently: 1) China is expected to overtake the US as the world’s biggest smartphone market this year [1], and 2) the typical smartphone user in China earns a comparatively modest income, making about $12,698 per year on average.

The company announced on Friday that it is offering two models – the S6102E and S6352 – priced at 1,158 RMB ($183) and 1,599 RMB ($253) respectively. China Daily quotes Wang Tong, Samsung China’s senior vice-president and CTO on the move:

There is a strong market trend that prompts us to provide lower-price smartphones in China … and I think it’s time now […] We are sure that about one-third of [a predicted 60 million entry-level phones in the market this year] will be produced by Samsung.

Both these new entry level models (pictured below) will be powered by Android 2.3, and the hardware specs are fairly modest.

In other China smartphone news, Baidu’s NASDAQ:BIDU vice president of engineering recently told Reuters that it has a few partnerships to announce soon, and that it is talking with “global” handset makers to produce smartphones with Baidu’s mobile OS. Could one of these makers be Samsung? That would be an interesting combo.

So while Xiaomi is making sweet looking Android phones affordable for Chinese, it looks like it will be facing huge competition. The phone costs 1,999 RMB ($317) which is a little on the high side compared to Samsung’s — although the specs are far better. But Samsung also doesn’t have Lei Jun, who has founded/led a series of successful businesses in China, including Joyo.com, Kingsoft, MIUI, and Vancl. Chinese consumers appear to be very interested in Xiaomi too, so this is certainly going to be a fun race to watch.

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1. This shift may have already happened.  ↩

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BlackBerry 10 Jam World tour dates announced

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If you were unable to make it to the Blackberry World Conference in Orlando earlier this month, then Research in Motion is bringing a part of the conference to you. The following are the dates for the Asia Pacific region:

July 4- Delhi, India

July 6- Beijing, China

July 9- Singapore

July 10- Jakarta, Indonesia

July 12- Sydney, Australia

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BlackBerry 10 Jam World tour dates announced

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If you were unable to make it to the Blackberry World Conference in Orlando earlier this month, then Research in Motion is bringing a part of the conference to you. The following are the dates for the Asia Pacific region:

July 4- Delhi, India

July 6- Beijing, China

July 9- Singapore

July 10- Jakarta, Indonesia

July 12- Sydney, Australia

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Shiri, not Siri

Shiri is better spelling for buttocks in Japanese.

Apple's Siri is Apple's buttocks in Japan | Technically Incorrect – CNET News

Shiri, not Siri

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Witness the live telecast of your own photos with Snapshock

The Snapshock Team. Photo:Snapshock

Experience being a reporter or paparazzi with Snapshock, the latest mobile app that allows users to broadcast photos live through their mobile phones.

Other than real time event broadcast, the app offers event check-ins and boasts of a new-patented technology that integrates real-time 2D images to 3D. Snapshock has covered many different events but specializes in covering live wedding events.

Innovators of this dynamic and creative mobile app comprise of a trio, Peter Choi, Data Fok and Kin Tang.

e27 talks to Peter Choi, to find out more about Snapshock and their plans for Echelon 2012 Sartup Marketplace.

How did the idea of Snapshock come about? Were wedding couples the initial target market?

When iPad 2 was launched, the whole world was concerned if Steve Jobs was going to be on stage at that very moment. On top of mere text based tweets, there’s a clear demand of live photos broadcast centralized for a specific event.

Apart from that, our team has also discovered other prominent problems such as having to share photos in the old-fashioned way amongst a group of friends. (I.e. copying via USB drive, DVD etc.) Sometimes we may also want to share large set of photos, but not to facebook given that one may not be personally attached to the photos. Also, we thought that it’d be a great idea if participants or helpers at a wedding banquest could be more engaged and take photos of the guests and show it live on a big projector screen.

There are more than 10 millions weddings happening globally every year. Thus weddings became our initial target market given that it is huge and recurrent. It also helped that the industry was our expertise since I am also running another startup, Hiwave Dry Seafood, specializing in wedding gifts services, with existing partnership and customer base.

In fact Snapshock was test launched in my own wedding banquet in March.

The Snapshock office. Photo: Snapshock

How did you and the two team members meet and work together on this startup?

We were high school classmates and have known each another for over 10 years. The team was formed in 2008 and Snapshock was pivoted three times. The current product is our fourth version.

Photo sharing was our original concept and previous products included photo album hosting, photos aggregation, photo slideshows, etc. The current Snapshock solution has been proven to be the most comprehensive and our team has definitely matured much more in terms of market analysis throughout the process.

How is the traction for Snapshock like and what are some of the feedback you’ve gotten from users so far?

Snapshock has currently more than 10,000 downloads. End users have given us a lot of feature related feedback  that is leading us to our subsequent modification in user experience and program flow. Corporate customers also made certain suggestions from the business perspective. We may make slight adjustments to our pricing and business model in the near future.

Snapshock is only available on iPhone now while the Android application will be coming soon.

Discussions at the Snapshock office. Photo: Snapshock

What are some of Snapshock’s expansion plans? E.g. partnerships, feature developments, market expansion, etc.

Current partners of Snapshock include wedding studios, wedding planners and hotels. In the future, we want to target other event types including PR firms, government departments and other businesses.

In terms of features, Snapshock will start to include video uploading and streaming. We are also researching to integrate 2D to 3D conversion technology to allow normal mobile phones to take 3D photos through our platform.

Snapshock sees Hong Kong as our pilot market and will gradually expand globally.

How has Snapshock strategized these expansion plans since the photo app market is very saturated?

With Instagram and other photo apps are already in place, we crafted our positioning very carefully. Snapshock is more like an events app rather than a photo app. Our customers are event organizers instead of photographers, and people will use Snapshock for on-purpose photography instead of leisure photography.

Upcoming new features for Snapshock will all be related to events. While it is possible Snapshock may cross with social networking arena in the future, our development pace will be carefully calculated to retain customer acceptance and to out run potential competitors.

Who or what would you be looking for at Echelon 2012 Startup Marketplace? (investments, partnerships, expansion, etc.)

Investments and partnerships will be our primary concerns. Coming from Hong Kong, we are also eager to understand more about the Singapore startup ecosystem. We have learnt something and built some network in Taiwan satellites and we anticipate to leverage on that even more in Singapore.

Snapshock will be exhibiting at Echelon 2012 Startup Marketplace in June.

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Witness the live telecast of your own photos with Snapshock

The Snapshock Team. Photo:Snapshock

Experience being a reporter or paparazzi with Snapshock, the latest mobile app that allows users to broadcast photos live through their mobile phones.

Other than real time event broadcast, the app offers event check-ins and boasts of a new-patented technology that integrates real-time 2D images to 3D. Snapshock has covered many different events but specializes in covering live wedding events.

Innovators of this dynamic and creative mobile app comprise of a trio, Peter Choi, Data Fok and Kin Tang.

e27 talks to Peter Choi, to find out more about Snapshock and their plans for Echelon 2012 Sartup Marketplace.

How did the idea of Snapshock come about? Were wedding couples the initial target market?

When iPad 2 was launched, the whole world was concerned if Steve Jobs was going to be on stage at that very moment. On top of mere text based tweets, there’s a clear demand of live photos broadcast centralized for a specific event.

Apart from that, our team has also discovered other prominent problems such as having to share photos in the old-fashioned way amongst a group of friends. (I.e. copying via USB drive, DVD etc.) Sometimes we may also want to share large set of photos, but not to facebook given that one may not be personally attached to the photos. Also, we thought that it’d be a great idea if participants or helpers at a wedding banquest could be more engaged and take photos of the guests and show it live on a big projector screen.

There are more than 10 millions weddings happening globally every year. Thus weddings became our initial target market given that it is huge and recurrent. It also helped that the industry was our expertise since I am also running another startup, Hiwave Dry Seafood, specializing in wedding gifts services, with existing partnership and customer base.

In fact Snapshock was test launched in my own wedding banquet in March.

The Snapshock office. Photo: Snapshock

How did you and the two team members meet and work together on this startup?

We were high school classmates and have known each another for over 10 years. The team was formed in 2008 and Snapshock was pivoted three times. The current product is our fourth version.

Photo sharing was our original concept and previous products included photo album hosting, photos aggregation, photo slideshows, etc. The current Snapshock solution has been proven to be the most comprehensive and our team has definitely matured much more in terms of market analysis throughout the process.

How is the traction for Snapshock like and what are some of the feedback you’ve gotten from users so far?

Snapshock has currently more than 10,000 downloads. End users have given us a lot of feature related feedback  that is leading us to our subsequent modification in user experience and program flow. Corporate customers also made certain suggestions from the business perspective. We may make slight adjustments to our pricing and business model in the near future.

Snapshock is only available on iPhone now while the Android application will be coming soon.

Discussions at the Snapshock office. Photo: Snapshock

What are some of Snapshock’s expansion plans? E.g. partnerships, feature developments, market expansion, etc.

Current partners of Snapshock include wedding studios, wedding planners and hotels. In the future, we want to target other event types including PR firms, government departments and other businesses.

In terms of features, Snapshock will start to include video uploading and streaming. We are also researching to integrate 2D to 3D conversion technology to allow normal mobile phones to take 3D photos through our platform.

Snapshock sees Hong Kong as our pilot market and will gradually expand globally.

How has Snapshock strategized these expansion plans since the photo app market is very saturated?

With Instagram and other photo apps are already in place, we crafted our positioning very carefully. Snapshock is more like an events app rather than a photo app. Our customers are event organizers instead of photographers, and people will use Snapshock for on-purpose photography instead of leisure photography.

Upcoming new features for Snapshock will all be related to events. While it is possible Snapshock may cross with social networking arena in the future, our development pace will be carefully calculated to retain customer acceptance and to out run potential competitors.

Who or what would you be looking for at Echelon 2012 Startup Marketplace? (investments, partnerships, expansion, etc.)

Investments and partnerships will be our primary concerns. Coming from Hong Kong, we are also eager to understand more about the Singapore startup ecosystem. We have learnt something and built some network in Taiwan satellites and we anticipate to leverage on that even more in Singapore.

Snapshock will be exhibiting at Echelon 2012 Startup Marketplace in June.

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How Did mig33 Scale in Indonesia? [#StartupAsia Preview]

Mig33 is one of the largest mobile-only social networks in the world for feature phones users. Out of its whopping 50 million users, a solid half of them originate from Indonesia.

This year, we have also witnessed mig33 becoming popular among handset makers, partnering with some of the largest mobile manufacturers in China, India, and Indonesia. If Facebook is the defacto social network, I would call mig33 the defacto social network for feature phone users.

While companies are still figuring out how to scale quickly in Indonesia, mig33 looks to be gaining users pretty comfortably in Indonesia. Not only is it able to make and collect money from the Indonesian market, but it is also creating a healthy ecosystem for game developers in the country.

So we’re happy to have Steven Goh, the founder of mig33 to join us for coffee chat at Startup Asia Jakarta on June 8, from 9:20 to 9:50am. This will be the second time we have him on stage; the first coffee chat saw us pick his brain on venture funding, growth, and exits. This time, we will focus more on mig33′s growth and strategy in Indonesia. It should be fun finding out from Steven how he did it in Indonesia. We will also attempt to find out some of his bigger plans moving into the future. If you’re a game developer or someone who is into mobile, this is the session for you. Stay tuned for more previews as Startup Asia Jakarta draws closer!

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