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Author Archives: Rama Mamuaya
Jakarta Founder Institute starts accepting startups for summer class
TweetAround 1 month ago, 13 founders from 8 startups graduated their very first class of Jakarta Founder Insitute. The first graduates with a variety of services, there are live features and services that can be enjoyed by users. However not all of them launched their services to the market. And now, JKTFI has open registration [...]
Instagram for Android : Will it scale or will it fail?
TweetEver since they launched on October 2010, Instagram has been a huge hit for iOS users and sparks the envy for its competing platform Android and Blackberry. That feel of “exclusivity” rhymes perfectly with Apple’s branding for its products compared to their competitors. After almost two years and 27 millions users later, founder Kevin Systrom [...]
Payment platforms attacks Asian market
TweetYou might be doing that big sigh when I mention “payment platform” but looking at recent developments, this are is getting hotter by the day with new player trying to study the market while silently preparing their product to help people pay online. Asian version of Paypal Here, or Square. Singapore-based company Swiff is trying [...]
Microsoft’s comeback plan might actually payoff
TweetSince a few years back, the tech community is witnessing the comeback of once sleeping giant of a tech company called Microsoft. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, they haven’t impress the tech community with their mediocre product releases. Windows Vista and Windows 7 was a trainwreck and users demanded something better. Whatever [...]
Google officially announces Indonesian office
TweetWe just received invitation from Google for the official opening ceremony of Google Indonesia’s operation, as well as announcing their Indonesian office. The event takes place at Cyber 2 building in Kuningan District, Jakarta on March 30th 2012. The event will also attended by 2 ministers : Dr. Mari E. Pangestu, Minister of Travel & Creative [...]
New iTunes release indicates Apple’s support for Indonesian users
TweetA recent article from Apple Insider pointed out that based on the the iTunes, Apple is beginning to expand to support Indonesian users. One AppleInsider reader found out that the newly released iTunes features a number of new countries under the Parental Preferences pane. These new countries are Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea. [...]
Calling All Hackers: NASA brings International Space Apps Challenge to Indonesia
TweetWe are super excited to announce that we will be working together with friends from US Embassy Jakarta and NASA to bring International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) to Jakarta, Indonesia. ISAC is an international collaboration that accelerates the development of solutions focused on building innovative solutions to solve critical issues on our planet. The International Space [...]
A lesson from Net Impact : Indonesia need more clones!
TweetAfter attending the Net Impact Conference event a few days ago, I have come to a revelation that based on what’s happening in emerging markets like Vietnam, Thailand etc : Indonesia need more clones. The guys from Rocket Internet would be laughing at me by now, but allow me to further elaborate. I saw presentations [...]
Stealth startup Gonla looks ready to be launched
TweetA new startup called Gonla.com is secretly preparing to enter the online travel competition in Indonesia. Almost no information can be found on the web page that currently still says “Coming Soon”, but we managed to gather some information about this stealth startup. A simple search through WHOIS inside the Gonla domain will reveal information [...]
Tokopedia closes new investment round from Japanese company Netprice