Archive for the 'Hong Kong' Category
6waves – Social Gaming Developer Raises $17.5M
Comments Written by Angus Lau January 22nd, 2010 . Tags: 6waves, Hong Kong, social gaming, Social Network.6waves, previously highlighted in 2008, has seen their social gaming business expand and become one of the leading developers in the market (Inside Facebook has the details). While their competitors have already raised their series B and C rounds, 6waves has just raised their series A round of $17.5 Million from US based VC, Insight [...]
Ankoder – Video Encoding in the Cloud
Comments Written by Angus Lau December 23rd, 2009 . Tags: Ankoder, cloud, Hong Kong, RoRCraft, video, Web 2.0.Ankoder brings video transcoding to users and business everywhere. Ankoder uses Amazon’s S3 and Elastic Cloud to provide a proven and scalable solution to anyone or any business working with video. With video becoming a big part of many businesses, any business looking to incorporate their own video site, cloud encoding is something they could [...]
Thumbdive down but not out – focuses on the enterprise
Comments Written by Angus Lau September 1st, 2009 . Tags: Hong Kong, Thumbdive, Web 2.0.Less than a year and still in private beta, Thumbdive will be shutting down their service. We first profiled their service back in January and found their privacy control approach and a different UI a good change from the other services in the market. I had hope to see it go further, but apparently Airgini, [...]
The iPhone 3GS with something special
Comments Written by Angus Lau July 17th, 2009 . Tags: 3GS, iPhone.So I finally got my Apple iPhone 3GS, but to my surprise it came with something extra. I unpacked it and found a hair stuck in the packaging, appears to be nose hair. This maybe a minor issue to all but I find it kind of disgusting. What do you guys think? Does that look [...]
iPhone 3GS available now in Hong Kong
Comments Written by Angus Lau July 9th, 2009 . Tags: 3GS, iPhone.The news is out! The new iPhone 3GS will be available come this Friday, July 10th, at 3 HK stores. I’m not sure if we’ll see the Apple online store and authorized Apple resellers across Hong Kong carry the new phone on that date (it’s not out now at midnight) Now available online. 3 HK [...]



