A report from Bloomberg today raises again the often circulated rumor of a merger between Malaysia owned XL Axiata, one of Indonesia’s top three mobile carriers, with Axis, one of the smaller ones, owned by Saudi Telecom and Malaysia’s Maxis. Our sister site Trenologi reported on the rumor about a month ago.
Well this one is a doozy. The Next Web reports that Zalora has just raised a round of $100 million from Kinnevik, JP Morgan, Tengelmann, Summit Partners, and Verlinvest. Yeah, $100 million funding round for the fashion shopping site soon after the company announced that it has shipped its one millionth order since its inception in early 2012.
The push to deliver an Indonesian mobile messaging solution by the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (BRTI) continues amid collaborations by local telcos with foreign messaging companies. Temporarily dubbed Messaging Indonesia, the effort is expected to reduce consumer reliance on foreign services. BRTI is working with three major mobile carriers to develop this service.
Yahoo’s surprise announcement may have been fleshed out in haste over the weekend as it brings Tumblr into the big purple family but Bloomberg let slip info of an announcement of a different kind on Saturday. Yahoo’s invitation for a Monday event was apparently to announce changes to Flickr in a massive proportion. And by massive we do mean big. Terabyte size and full resolution.
Local horror game and id-byte 2013 finalist DreadOut has received full funding through the crowd funding site Indiegogo with 12 hours to the deadline. Digital Happiness, the Bandung-based company behind DreadOut, sought USD 25,000 to fully develop the game into completion with intention to release it in November of this year. Following a highly successful demo release at the end of March, the campaign kicked into high gear.
When we last wrote about PicMix, the Indonesian photo-sharing startup was about to hit ten million registered users. Sure enough, it did just a few days later. PicMix now has 10.5 million users who have uploaded more than 151 million photos to the service. The company today at BlackBerry Live in Orlando, Florida launched a new version for BlackBerry 10, as well as PicMix cards.
