Archive for the 'Social Network' 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 [...]
Harbork – Make Money with this Content Driven Community
Comments Written by Angus Lau July 7th, 2008 . Tags: Harbork, Hong Kong, Social Network, Web 2.0.Harbork is a new social network from Hong Kong. It is currently in private beta and they demo-ed it to the crowd at the Startup Hong Kong event couple weeks ago. The idea behind this is allowing their users to monetize for the traffic that is generated from the content uploads, including videos, classifieds, polls, [...]
Duedee: The new Bullpoo – Investors Community and Investment Tool
Comments Written by Angus Lau June 13th, 2008 . Tags: Bullpoo, duedee, Hong Kong, Social Network, stocks, Web 2.0.Those who are Bullpoo users will have already noticed a change in their name. Bullpoo has become Duedee, but everything else remains the same. I asked Kevin Chang, co-founder of Duedee about the name change and what you can expect from them. Why the name change? BullPoo was an awesome name, all the Internet savy [...]
6 waves – SNS app publisher
Comments Written by Angus Lau May 19th, 2008 . Tags: 6waves, Hong Kong, SNS, Web 2.0.Knowing that Facebook is a hot property in Hong Kong, couple Yahoo! HK alums started 6 waves and launched it in the start of 2008. The goal of 6waves is to deliver media campaigns to social networks, currently Facebook, much like RockYou and Slide. Looking through their website, they are serving exclusively to the Facebook [...]
CityIN joins OpenSocial
Comments Written by Angus Lau April 22nd, 2008 . Tags: China, CityIN, OpenSocial, Web 2.0.CityIN, launched last month, has rolled up some interesting features including automatic face detection. Today, they announced they have joined OpenSocial. This is significant in that it is one of the OpenSocial pioneers in China, but whether it will gain traction remains to be seen. I’ve been told however, that they will provide a Chinese [...]



