http://www.852signal.com Broadcasting Web 2.0 and next generation web activities in Hong Kong and Asia 香港 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:10:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.852signal.com/2010/01/22/6waves-social-gaming-developer-raises-175m/ 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 ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/12/23/ankoder-video-encoding-in-the-cloud/ 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 ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/09/01/thumbdive-down-but-not-out-focuses-on-the-enterprise/ 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 ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/07/17/the-iphone-3gs-with-something-special/ 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 ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/07/09/iphone-3gs-available-now-in-hong-kong/ 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 ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/06/10/find-your-next-movie-with-moosh/ Hong Kong isn't known as a place for web entrepreneurship, however, my friends at Anobii and Stepcase, two Hong Kong startups have quietly put together a plan which they hope will encourage local university students to get started in the startup world. With the economy at where it is today, ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/05/12/from-0-to-01-incubation-program/ Listening and engaging with the community is more important than ever. Social media tools allows them to freely discuss your brand openly. We have seen reports that social media spending by large brands have increased year over year since 2008 in the US. In Hong Kong, engaging ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/04/08/ignoring-the-community-a-look-at-yahoo-hong-kong/ Thumbdive, currently in private beta, is a microblogging/lifestreaming app that allows you to privately share content, opposite of what other services are offering. Thumbdive was developed by Airgini, a HKSTP incubated company. As I know, Airgini has been around since late 2007 but nothing came about until their Thumbdive ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/01/21/thumbdive-privately-share-your-lifestreams/ 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 ... http://www.852signal.com/2009/01/15/outblazes-messaging-service-to-be-acquired-by-ibm/