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.
Freeware, the free co-working space which had only began operating actively in January 2013, just announced that it already is home to 12 startups which are hosted at the Medco building in Ampera, South Jakarta. Freeware is operated by Grupara, the Indonesian tech startup incubator which was established in 2011.
Space Apps Challenge may have ended and Panggi Akadol’s OpenTEC project won the local event but the global voting for people’s choice award is open. We submitted our top two best apps among the twenty that came through the Challenge weekend to the global competition and it’s time to support our developers!
With Telkomsel and Indosat announcing the development of their own messaging apps based on the GSMA-approved Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard, Indonesia is about to join countries like Singapore, South Korea, and Spain in rolling out an industry upgrade to the aging SMS. In the meantime, their customers are being drawn away and their revenues siphoned out by communication services companies.
Back in February the Indonesian telecommunications regulatory body (BRTI) announced plans to build and deploy its own messaging app platform to replace the aging SMS. The move was clearly an attempt to counter the onslaught of applications that substitute the core mobile communications services offered by mobile network companies. Indonesian telcos, Telkomsel and Indosat, have separately announced their plans to develop such an app.
