Telkom Will Invest $1.65 Million in Startups in Indonesia

by novistiar on July 10, 2010

Indigo Award

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom) is running a program called Indonesian Digital Community (Indigo) Fellowship 2010 and has set aside a budget of $1.65 million to invest in startup companies in Indonesia. The goals of the fellowship is to gather creativepreuneurs in the creative industry and become an incubator for startups in the information, communication and technology creative industry.According to Widi Nugroho, Executive General Manager, Multimedia Division, Telkom, on Friday, July 9, 2010, more than 1,000 startups have submitted their creative idea to Telkom through this fellowship. “This year, we took the initiative and invite them to show their creativity. From about 1,000 applications, we had selected only 11 finalists,” he said. Read the full article

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Broadband and Consumer E-Commerce in Indonesia

by novistiar July 8, 2010

Telekomunikasi Indonesia will invest more in high-speed Internet services to counter market share gains by new entrants in the cellphone industry, including the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. The West Java company will spend $50 million this year to upgrade its network, Rinaldi Firmansyah, president director, said in an interview resently in Jakarta. He declined [...]

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State of the Mobile Web – April 2010

by novistiar July 5, 2010

According to the State of the Mobile Web for April 2010 published by Opera, Indonesia is one of the countries in the world with the most active mobile web users. The average page view per user in Indonesia was 657, second only to Rusia’s page view per user, which is the highest in the world. [...]

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Asia First Twitter Region, U.S. Now Only Quarter of Tweets

by novistiar July 5, 2010

Twitter users in Asia, mainly located in Japan, Indonesia and South Korea, account for 37% of tweets, a Semiocast study of 2.9 million messages has revealed. Asia is now the first and fastest growing region compared to the results published three months ago. The analysis additionally showed that the U.S. now only account for 25% [...]

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Mobile Browsing Gains Popularity in Indonesia

by novistiar July 4, 2010

In a statement on Opera’s Web site, cofounder Jon von Tetzchner said Indonesia for the first time ranked first among Opera Mini users from May 2009 to May 2010, displacing Russia from the No. 1 spot, which it had held for two years. Since May 2009, Von Tetzchner said, the number of Opera Mini users [...]

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Introducing CoolFounders, a blog about Internet business in Indonesia

by novistiar July 4, 2010

After postponing for months due to busy work schedule, I finally spent some hours setting up this blog and writing the first couple articles during my 4th of July holiday. The focus of  CoolFounders is Internet business in Indonesia and all of its potentials. With more than 240 million population, Indonesia is the country with [...]

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Memperkenalkan CoolFounders, sebuah blog tentang bisnis Internet di Indonesia

by novistiar July 4, 2010

Setelah menunda beberapa bulan lamanya karena kesibukan pekerjaan dan AutoSally, sebuah Internet startup yang sedang saya rintis di Amerika bersama Sanny Gaddafi, akhirnya pada liburan 4th of July ini (hari kemerdekaannya Amerika) saya menyempatkan diri men-setup blog ini dan menulis beberapa artikel pertama.  Terus terang, saya tidak pandai menulis dan juga tidak begitu suka menulis. [...]

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