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.
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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 ...
The second Music, Entrepreneurship, And Technology discussion gathering last Saturday featured a few interesting discussions, led by experts in their respective fields. Oon Arifiandi from 7Langit elaborated on developing mobile apps for music, and musician Arian Arifin explained the business pote...
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 releas...
We recently learned that Malaysia-based online payment company MOL just ink a significant partnership with PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya, which is the holding company behind giant convenient store franchise chain Alfamart and Alfamidi. This partnership will enable MOL to distribute its vouchers to al...
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 ...
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 esta...
