Archive for the 'startup' 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 [...]
Find your next movie with Moosh
Comments Written by Angus Lau June 10th, 2009 . Tags: aNobii, Hong Kong, moosh, startup.Moosh is a local web service that allows users to look up movies and book tickets online before actually going to the theater. You can check for showtimes, watch trailers, theaters that its playing at, seat availability and linking you to the online ticketing websites.
Moosh does a good job with accessibility also, [...]
Event: Startup Hong Kong at Stepcase
Comments Written by Angus Lau June 12th, 2008 . Tags: Hong Kong, meetup, startups, Web 2.0.UPDATE:
Venue: Stepcase Office
Addy: 479 Castle Peak Rd - Chau Tau, near Lai Chi Kok MTR
More info: http://www.stepcase.com/contact/
Time: 19:00 - 22:00 or later
UPDATE: Harbork and Zendesk are sponsoring the food/drinks. There will be a short demo by Harbork service.
There will be a social event for the startups this coming Thursday, June 19th [...]
Project852 - Project outsourcing
Comments Written by Angus Lau January 20th, 2008 . Tags: Hong Kong, outsourcing, project852, startup, Web.Project outsourcing is nothing new in the web nor is it new in the Asia region, especially in India and China where people are hired by people abroad to get their projects off the ground quickly and on the cheap. Project852 has taken the idea to the developers and businesses in Hong Kong. [...]



