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This Week in Asia Episode 65: Craig White from MIH Group

Posted by Daniel CerVentus on Sep 3, 2010 in Web | 13780 comments2010-09-03+07%3A50%3A23Daniel+CerVentus

TweetWe have often talked about the success of TenCent and QQ in Asia. Inside their history, MIH Group, a division of Naspers, is one of their investors and owns 38% of TenCent in China. So, we have invited Craig White, CEO of MIH Group, a division of Naspers to join us in the TWIA virtual studio. Probably our most stellar guest so far, Craig shares his thoughts on the story on how MIH invested in TenCent, E-Commerce in Asia and also a bunch of companies in Southeast Asia, BuzzCity and Lelong that they have invested.

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Follow Friday: Malaysian Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter

Posted by Daniel CerVentus on Sep 3, 2010 in Web | 13430 comments2010-09-03+02%3A34%3A53Daniel+CerVentus

TweetTwitter is such a big thing in Malaysia that our very own Prime Minister @najibrazak been advocating its benefits. As an avid Twitter user himself, he has around 31 thousands followers and updated his status 1024 times as of this article.

As one of his more recent update states there are 9 Malaysian firms who are listed under the Forbes Best Under A Billion, we shall look at some entrepreneurs and business tycoons in Malaysia that you should follow on twitter.

YouthSays launches new Groupon clone

Posted by Daniel CerVentus on Sep 3, 2010 in Web, Youth | 13340 commentsYouthSays+launches+new+Groupon+clone2010-09-02+23%3A01%3A26Daniel+CerVentus

TweetIt sounds like local chocolate chip cookie brand and it have 2 deals for far, Groupsmore is YouthSays, latest push to monazite its community of survey taking youth.

A Week in Stanford & Silicon Valley – Part 2

Posted by michael on Aug 13, 2010 in Web, Youth | 12150 comments2010-08-13+02%3A55%3A39michael

Starting World Class Start-Ups among the Youths – How Stanford Grooms ‘Rockstar’ Entrepreneurs

From multibillion dollar investments to young start-ups, Michael had the opportunity to connect with Stanford University’s next wave of emerging youth entrepreneurs, all crediting their business success towards the supportive environment and culture embedded within the curriculum of the acclaimed university.

This Week in Asia Episode 61: This is Social Media!

Posted by Daniel CerVentus on Aug 1, 2010 in News, Web | 13130 comments2010-07-31+21%3A32%3A06Daniel+CerVentus

Tweet Starting off with congrats to Mike Foong with his 4th kid, Myra Ines Foong, the TWIA crew is back to discuss the interesting stories that dominate the Asian mobile, web & tech landscape this week. While we look back at Open Web Asia Conference & Google Dev Fest in KL, we also discussed interesting stories covering from iPads selling out in Singapore to an Asian company called Bubble Motion funded by Sequoia and how it’s kicking ass in India. If you are not impressed, then the gaffe from MOL CEO, Ganesh Kumar Bangah on his rival OffGamers’ FB page surely hits the most entertaining story of the week in Asia.

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