This Week in Asia( TWIA) , we talked about:
ACTA signed by Korea, Japan and Singapore
and Thailand becoming the first country in the world to support Twitter censorship function

A non story in the ongoing Foxconn Apple saga
Yahoo trying to pull out of Japan
Nintendo loosing money
Rocket Internet foray into the South East Asia market.

Special guest Benjamin Joffe from Daydeed.com
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Events:
Startup Asia 2 and 3rd Feb 2012
Echelon 2012

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This week, we talk about CES , How China have half a billion internet users and RIP Fusion Garage with Justin Lee of Tech65

Also events

Startup Asia
Echelon 2012 Startup Marketplace

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It is the end of 2011 and as we look forward to a wonderful 2012, we invited a few friends over to give us their prediction for 2012.

Jon
3D printer become mainstream.
Maturing of Hongkong startup market. (more active early stage investment )
Most Groupon clone will go out business. (agreed by Daniel)

Rama
Gaming will be bigger, will be bigger. Agree by Serkan
Voice control ala siri will be more integrated. (Jon and Daniel disagree with it)
Daily deal will be bigger, as least in indonesia.

Serkan
Expansion Japanese startup and VC outside of japan
More startup in Asia as a whole. (japan 2011 has an incubator boom)
Asia will be the center for the tech world.

Bernard
Html5 will be important for gaming.
Nokia will be a 3rd but weak player in the mobile phone sector
Mobile Ecommerce taking off.

Daniel
Growth of Amazon Kindle in Asia,
Window phone 7 will be 3 big player.
Daily deals will be replacing by loyalty.

Guest: Rama of DailySocial, Serkan Toto of Techcrunch and Jonathan Buford of Makible.
Host: Daniel Cerventus, Bernard Leong.

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This week, we have Mr Geeknomics himself, Nicholas Aaron Khoo who is in Mumbai to talk about the tech scene in Mumbai plus the Blackberry and Indonesia incident plus the Computing Professional Bill 2011 in Malaysia where Bernard and Nic compares it to what Singapore is trying to do.

Computing Professional Bill 2011

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After a few “cursed” episodes where we invited Willis Wee of Penn Olsen, we finally got him on This Week in Asia to talk about Taobao, Vodafone Mobile Banking and more.

Event:
Boost in Jakarta
Startup Asia Singapore
Blackberry Dev in Singapore

Host:

Bernard Leong, Chew Lin and Cerventus

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We are celebrating our 100 episode with all of our regular host including our very first guest, Dr. Gang Lu of Technode and also Rama of Daily Social.

We would like to thank all our listeners and guest of the show. You helped made this happen. There will be more TWIA to come.

some of the news items talked about

- Nielsen recently published their Digital Consumer Whitepaper for South East Asia
-Lashou Puts off IPO Roadshow Due to Accounting Issues

Host:
Kay Chew Lin, Mike Foong, Mike Smith Jr, John Lim, Bernard Leong, Daniel Cerventus

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We caught up with Dries Buytaert, who started the Drupal movement recently in Singapore to talk about his ideas about building a community in Asia.

Drupal is a wonderful open source CMS/platform that has been around for 10 year.

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This Week, it is the aftermath of TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing, Asia D, Silicon Valley Comes 2 Malaysia, Sparxup and Geeks on the Plane.

Bernard will give the scoop on Techcrunch Disrupt Beijing and Joash of E27 will share his insights on SVC2M, while Daniel shares about his Geeks on a Plane trip to Hongkong

We also find out Sina Weibo’s plans for the future and social network in China

Host:
Smitty, Bernard Leong and Cerventus

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This week, we are join by the founder of the world first podcast network Cameron Reilly and the founder of StartupHK , Jonathan Buford as we talk about some tech news and events happening around Asia.

- Samsung to ask for a ban of Iphone4s in Australia
- Paypal ups limit of transfer to USD3000 in India
- Lenovo as no 2 top PC manufacturer in the world beating DELL
- Malaysia and Indonesia Government join forces to invest in Startups.

Events:
In Singapore: TechVentures, Founder Drinks with Tim Draper and Startup Weekend SG 3
In Malaysia: Silicon Valley comes to Malaysia and APYEC
In Hongkong: Startup Saturday, Asia D
In Beijing: Techcrunch Disrupt
In around East Asia: geeks on a plane.

Host:
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Today, we are join by Paul Bragiel the co-founder of I/O Ventures. Paul is a veteran in the Silicon Valley start up scene and I had the pleasure of meeting him in his fantastic new incubator and cafe last year. You can check out his funky co working place at a video done by TechCrunch.

Paul brings with him year of experience as CEO of 3 companies and he was the co founder of Lefora which revolutionize forums in the 21st century. Here is his profile on Crunchbase.

For more about Paul, you can follow him on twitter @bragiel

Note: Sorry Paul, love the picture with the beard.

First published on Entrepreneurs.my

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