Welcome to the latest instalment of Last Week in Asia, our roundup of the key stories and developments from across Asia’s growing technology and Internet spaces. China Top story: Apple agrees to pay Proview $60m to settle China iPad trademark dispute Last week saw Apple pay out to finally end its trademark dispute with financially-strapped Taiwanese firm...
Editor’s note: GD (Ram) Ramkumar is a serial entrepreneur and computer scientist. He was founder and CTO of SnapTell (acquired by Amazon in 2009) and is now the Founder and CEO of Concept.io, a new mobile startup. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. I started as a mobile entrepreneur in the...
Owen Thomas, Business Insider Pinterest! We sidled up to the counter at one of our longtime favorite dives in San Francisco, Mars Bar Restaurant, and asked the bartender if he knew who was moving in across the street. “Sure,” he said. “Pinterest.” As we reported Friday, the online image-sharing board had packed up its...
The current generation of game consoles is getting a bit long in the tooth, but signs point to late 2013 as the earliest that a replacement for either the PlayStation or Xbox consoles will come online. But then something interesting happened this past week, which could change the way that console makers think about...
I said in my review that the Samsung Galaxy S III is the phone you’ve been waiting for, and the same holds true in this latest episode of Fly Or Die. John and I took a look at the various specs, namely the NFC-style features and S-Voice, and we both walked away with a...
There’s nothing like an apocalypse to whip the web into a frenzy. As you’ve likely seen by the many dramatic headlines, thousands of people whose computers are infected with an especially vicious piece of malware will be cut off from the Internet Monday. That’s when the FBI will shut down temporary internet servers that...
Editor’s note: Phineas Barnes is a partner at First Round Capital, worked at AND 1 from “day 2″ and founded a fitness video game company. According to my twitter feed subscription commerce is an overblown, shark jumping smoke screen and the companies that created the model are abandoning it left and right. The comparison...
The tech world in Russia can be more cynically viewed as predominantly commercial and filled with clones of services and products that never made it through the language barrier. But there are some fresh organisations working on changing this for the better and they’re not all making this happen within the Russian border. Alexey...
An interesting little tidbit surfaced on the internet just a few minutes ago when Twitter’s Vice President, Business Corporate Development, Kevin Thau, tweeted out a comparison shot between Twitter and Facebook. The subject of the tweet was Serena Williams, whose Twitter profile Thau seems to feel more authentic than her official Facebook page. But the interesting...
Every technology company wants favorable, and extensive coverage from the media. How to generate that coverage is a constant game, for most. Any technology giant, your Googles and Facebooks and Apples and Microsofts need but say something in a slightly misjudged manner, and a media firestorm can break loose. For most companies however, struggling...