Event: Echelon 2012 Japan Satellite In Tokyo This Friday (April 27)

Singapore-based tech blog e27 is holding Echelon 2012 on June 11-12, a startup event the site calls the biggest of its kind in Asia. As in previous years, Echelon will take place in Singapore (the first one was organized back in 2010), and the main event is preceded by a number of lead-up events in… Continue reading Event: Echelon 2012 Japan Satellite In Tokyo This Friday (April 27)

Event Wrap-up: Echelon 2011 And More, A Visit To Singapore In June

Almost a month ago, there was an international technology and start-up showcase event, which is called Echelon, at the National University of Singapore. Because of many things to do remaining after the event, I delayed making a write-up on it. I think this year’s Echelon was its second edition, and that took place on June… Continue reading Event Wrap-up: Echelon 2011 And More, A Visit To Singapore In June

Meet Japanese Start-ups on Fri and Sat in Singapore

Picture courtesy: Flickr user edwin.11 (used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license) Singapore is very hot on tech throughout this week, since Echelon 2011, one of the largest tech conference in South East Asia, will be taking place at the National University of Singapore, where the region’s best start-up companies and services will… Continue reading Meet Japanese Start-ups on Fri and Sat in Singapore

Echelon 2011: Applications For Asia’s Leading Launchpad Program Closing In Two Weeks

Echelon, Asia’s leading web technology event which is annually organized by Singapore’s tech news media and our friend e27, is scheduled to take place in June at the National University of Singapore.   Its satellite events will be held in Jakarta (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Singapore in April to select the best tech start-up… Continue reading Echelon 2011: Applications For Asia’s Leading Launchpad Program Closing In Two Weeks

Gree To Take Several Percent Stake In Singapore’s SMS/IM-based Social Network Mig33

Japan’s third largest social network GREE[J] announced today they would invest in Mig33 (by Project Goth, Inc.) who is a SMS and IM text messaging-based social network platform in Singapore.   GREE plans to invest several million US dollars in Mig33’s series C round and to acquire several percent stake.   This will be the first ever… Continue reading Gree To Take Several Percent Stake In Singapore’s SMS/IM-based Social Network Mig33

Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up in Singapore

I was visiting Singapore in late-September for attending Accelerate 2010 and meeting with great techpreneurs.   Thanks to Bernard Leong from Chalkboard, a Singapore-based start-up providing retail promotion solutions for several smartphone platforms, and Justin Lee from Tech 65, a Singapore-based gadget-focused tech blog, we could have a readers meet-up at the country’s geek hub, Hackerspace.SG,… Continue reading Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up in Singapore

Update: Asiajin To Host Reader Meet-up In Singapore On Saturday

Hello, Asiajin readers in Singapore! I’ve just planned to attend Accelerate 2010, one of Asia’s biggest annual tech events that we also serve as a media sponsor of.   Since I’ll be in Singapore in that week, by using this opportunity, in order to exchange friendships and communicate with our readers in the country on a… Continue reading Update: Asiajin To Host Reader Meet-up In Singapore On Saturday

PostSell Adds Personalized Product Recommendations To Email Receipts

Singapore-based startup PostSell has one goal: boosting sales of online retailers through product recommendations in email receipts. In other words, it’s just like Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” being built into emails that you get from shops after buying something online. What’s interesting is that PostSell says 70% of buyers actually open… Continue reading PostSell Adds Personalized Product Recommendations To Email Receipts

“Top 50 Apps In Asia”: Help Accelerate 2010 Identify The Best Asia-Related Mobile And Web Apps

Can you think of a great mobile or web application that’s either made in an Asian country or specifically geared towards users in this region? Or have you developed such an application yourself? Then you should nominate and/or vote for your favorite app in the “Top 50 Apps In Asia” program that e27, a startup… Continue reading “Top 50 Apps In Asia”: Help Accelerate 2010 Identify The Best Asia-Related Mobile And Web Apps

Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon’s company which manages and sells cloud computing services like EC2, S3, CloudFront, etc., is turned out to open its Japanese subsidiary Amazon Data Services Japan at unknown time in 2009, talked by one of their two employees at Japan Amazon EC2 Users Group, a blog Publickey reported [J]. At… Continue reading Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan