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Tag Archives: kaskus
eBay Appoints Edelman as Asia Pacific PR Agency, Gets Serious About the Region
TweeteBay just announced that it has appointed Edelman as its Asia Pacific PR agency to deal with cross border trade in the region as it represents 20 percent of the company’s sales in Q4 2010. The appointment follows the relationship between the two companies in the US. The PR agency is expected to “raise awareness [...]
Kaskus Chief Marketing Resigns, Focuses on His New Company
TweetWe recently learned that Danny Wirianto, the Chief Marketing for online forum Kaskus has officially resigned from the company to focus on his latest project Mindtalk.com. And surprisingly, the official date for his resignation was July 15th 2011, so I guess he hasn’t publicly announce the news to us until today. Danny joined Kaskus over [...]
Kaskus For iOS Still Needs Fixing, It’s a Bugs Galore
TweetCollaborating with Apps Foundry, Kaskus as the biggest Indonesian Forum launches its official application for iOS universally and compatible for iPhone and iPad. With a minimum requirement of iOS 3.0, I’m sure it will still function properly on older version handset such as iPhone 3G or even first generation iPhone. Apps Foundry is known as a [...]
Dear Kaskus and Koprol, Please Fix Your Search Engine!
TweetI was at Grand Indonesia this morning to meet a colleague at Starbucks Coffe. As one of Koprol’s devotee, I immediately turned on my laptop and tried to check in at Starbucks Grand Indonesia. I then tried to find my location on Koprol, but unfortunately keywords “starbucks grand indonesia” gave me zero result. I tried other [...]
Kaskus: Business and Community Loyalty
TweetMany of you must’ve heard what happened to Kaskus recently, that 5 of their moderators submitted their resignation at the same time, all of the sudden. It happened shortly after the news that Kaskus and GDP Ventures announced their partnership in order to bring Kaskus to the new and higher level. These two events happening the [...]
Kaskus Founder Releases Statement on Resignation of Forum Moderators
TweetKaskus experienced a traffic spike, roughly 30 percent, in the last 24 hours due to the resignation of several moderators from the popular forum. The news had led to rampant speculations as to the nature of the resignations among members of the forum that Kaskus Founder and CTO Andrew Darwis was forced to release an [...]
The Effect of Kaskus Funding Towards Startup Ecosystem in Indonesia
TweetKaskus’ receiving funding from GDP Venture made headlines, not only because of the agreement itself but also its impact to startup ecosystem in Indonesia in macro scale. And we can’t avoid rumors spreading quickly that Kaskus is estimated as $60 millions $80 millions or even $100 millions of value. Kaskus never did confirm their valuation when [...]
Tasterous Added 2 Technology Rockstar in Board of Directors
TweetTasterous, the most anticipated startup, launched by its founders Ronald Ishak and Deche Pangestu on Jakarta Ventures Night, Friday, March 18, 2011. Tasterous is a startup of photo sharing special for food lovers, where there will be a “food check-in” for its users. From here you probably can see who share the same taste of [...]
Interview with Martin Hartono on GDP and Kaskus’ Partnership
TweetLast Wednesday Kaskus held a press conference to announce their partnership with Global Digital Prima (GDP) Venture. After DailySocial’s article on the partnership, below is DS’ interview with Martin Hartono, Director of GDP Venture about GDP’s opinion on Kaskus, their partnership, and what development the partnership will bring. Disclosure: Daily Social is incubated by Merah [...]
Kaskus Focuses on Scalability, Ditches VBulletin for Custom Made Service Platform