This Week in Asia Episode 69: Mitchell Baker Mozilla

With so many conferences and so many of our host are all around the world. This Week in Asia is on a slight hiatus. However Dr. Bernard and Cerventus caught up with Mitchell Baker, the chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation in Singapore for the Singtel : Accelerate Conference last week to talk about Mozilla role [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 67: Top 50 Apps in Asia

While the Apple keynote with new iPod designs flood the web-tech space, the TWIA crew are inundated with news from the upcoming conference Accelerate (organized by E27, SingTel & Neoteny Labs) where the names of the top 50 apps are announced. Also, the crew discussed TechCrunch-Fusion Garage lawsuit, the Blackberry battle with governments, Koprol TV [...]

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

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 [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 58: Live from Open Web Asia SEA

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It has been an exciting week for the Malaysia web/tech scene with the Open Web Asia – Southeast Asia conference happening in Kuala Lumpur on 13-14 July. The TWIA crew hosted a live show with Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) from TechCrunch & Brian Wong (@brian_wong) formerly from Digg and now followFormation as our guests. We touched [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 56: Attack of The Groupon Clones

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Yes, Google vs China comes to a stunning conclusion with one side making a kow-tow, and the emergence of Groupon clones taking over Asia springing from China and Singapore. How will all these change the landscape of Asia? With Chew Lin taking the helm as the moderator for the first time, the TWIA crew examines [...]

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