Archive for the 'Asia' Category
Outblaze’s messaging service (to be) acquired by IBM
Comments Written by Angus Lau January 15th, 2009 . Tags: acquisition, Asia, Hong Kong, Outblaze.Yat Siu, the founder and CEO of Outblaze, has noted on his Facebook status that his online messaging and collaboration service has been bought by IBM, details are found here. I have mentioned in my Twitter before that there has been a handful of acquisitions by large corporations in Asia and US, late last year [...]
Open Web Asia 08 Conference Report
Comments Written by Angus Lau October 19th, 2008 . Tags: Asia, Open-Web-Asia, OpenWebAsia 2008, OWA08, Seoul, Web 2.0.The inaugural Open Web Asia conference in Seoul, South Korea was a success, we had around 300 people show up. For those who couldn’t make it, you missed some great insights and chances to network with the speakers, entrepreneurs and other attendees. We hope to provide slides on Open Web Asia conference through support partner [...]
Announcing Open Web Asia 2008 Conference
Comments Written by Angus Lau August 13th, 2008 . Tags: Asia, Conference, open-web-asia-2008, OpenWebAsia, Seoul, Web 2.0, WKF.Open Web Asia 2008 Conference will hit Asia on October 14, 2008 in Seoul, South Korea and held at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill. This year, the organizing team made up of members of the OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup and other prominent entrepreneurs, thinkers, and bloggers has teamed up with the 9th World Knowledge Forum to launch the [...]
Entrepreneur 27 Singapore Unconference
Comments Written by Angus Lau July 6th, 2008 . Tags: e27sg, entrepreneur27, Singapore, unconference.While Hong Kong has started to take on the idea of Barcamp unconferences, Singapore is initiating these events all year round. On top of Barcamps there, Entrepreneur 27 Singapore has been hosting their own unconferences for five yearstimes in two years now. This year’s event will be on July 12, 2008. There will be startups [...]
eBay.dev.shack Event in Singapore
Comments Written by Angus Lau June 21st, 2008 . Tags: e27sg, eBay, event, Paypal, Singapore.My friends from Entrepreneur27 Singapore has organized a great event for the community there. It’s happening this Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at Timbre @ The Substation (Singapore, of course). The eBay.dev.shack event is a conference for the developer community there or in Asia to get a peek into eBay and Paypal widgets as well as [...]



