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Bouncity Sold to Game Publisher Qeon (UPDATED)

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We finally get confirmation that location based service Bouncity has been sold to game publisher Qeon for undisclosed amount. The previous owner, PhaseDev, is now focusing on the other two services under its management, Wayang Force and Tiket, while buzzing around with new stealth stuffs. According to source close to this matter, the Bouncity’s deal is closed on June before two of its key players, Kevin Osmond and Richard Fang, departing. Osmond and Fang are now collaborating to create consulting gig named Weekend Inc.

Qeon itself is a new player in game publishing industry. Its current product is Shadow Company, a First Person Shooter (FPS) online game that was launched in April. While Bouncity has some gamification process in the service, we are still not quite sure about the future of Bouncity under Qeon management. Qeon is part of MidPlaza group and having tight relationship with Biznet.

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Asian Startup Goes Global : CEO Corner With Saumil Nanavati from Chalkboard

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When I met Saumil and his partner Bernard last year in Singapore, I wasn’t sure about his plan by taking his company Chalkboard to the US market. The concept is easily cloned by some company in Silicon Valley and would’ve probably gain more exposure and investors’ trust compared to some company from Singapore.

Saumil has proven me wrong.

His company received funding from Neoteny Labs, a Singaporean fund backed by Twitter’s early investor Joi Ito who has strong connection to tech startups and investors in US. This strategic move works perfectly for Chalkboard to go conquer the US market with the help of their investors.

So in this session of CEO Corner, I’m interviewing Saumil Nanavati the founder and CEO of Chalkboard. Check it out!

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Bouncity challenges mobile Indonesians to be more active

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Following Koprol’s tracks, Indonesia’s up and coming application development house PhaseDev launches its location-based social gaming platform Bouncity in Jakarta earlier today at @america, Pacific Place.

While most Indonesians are more familiar with Foursquare and will associate this new game with the New York startup, it is actually much closer in concept and practice with SCVNGR. You can probably say it’s the Indonesian SCVNGR given its similarities.

For those unfamiliar with the US-based game, it lets players to do more than just check in to earn rewards. Both Bouncity and SCVNGR encourage their players to perform a number of activities when they are at certain locations after which they will earn various kinds of rewards. Continue reading Bouncity challenges mobile Indonesians to be more active →

GeoKuliner Help Direct You To The Nearest Restaurant

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Location-based is such a hybrid-friendly feature, from location-based social networking, location-based reviews, location-based e-commerce, location-based augmented reality and now location-based restaurant review. A very niche private beta project we found a couple of days ago and decided to review it.

GeoKuliner, is the name of the service which will help you determine a restaurant near you, complete with the review, contact number and of course the address of the restaurant. The UI is very simple, easy to use and relatively clean, giving the visitor a clear view of the website and it’s contents. Looks like GeoKuliner will be dependent on their users to submit content for them, User Generated Content.

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