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...

Successful tech entrepreneur Danny Wirianto has been nominated as one of the Top Mentors for Founder Institute worldwide incubation program. Danny is the only Indonesian to be nominated for Asia-based mentors together with Vinnie Lauria from Golden Gate Ventures and Ly Nguyen Hoang from...

Indonesia’s top 3 carriers (Telkomsel, XL, Indosat) today announced strategic partnership involving their electronic money transfer platform. XL Tunai, Dompetku Indosat and Telkomsel TCash announced their integrated partnership that will enable consumer to send money via SMS throughout...

Early this month, May 2-4 to be exact, myself and other 150 got the exclusive invitation to this unconference event called Stream Indonesia 2013 organized by WPP. The global event takes place early autumn each year and brings together over three hundred of the brightest and most innovative...

Early this month, May 2-4 to be exact, myself and other 150 got the exclusive invitation to this unconference event called Stream Indonesia 2013 organized by WPP. The global event takes place early autumn each year and brings together over three hundred of the brightest and most innovative...

Daniel Armanto (former Ice House, founder Koprol) and serial entrepreneur Italo Gani today introduces Adskom, a new hybrid of online advertising platform aims to disrupt the media industry, starting from Indonesia. Backed by Japanese venture capital Rebright Partners, Adskom is planning to...

We just received rumor that Google is currently talking with some of Indonesia’s biggest music label in order to bring their digital music service, Google Music, into the market. Some of our sources also confirms the meeting with Google representative talking about the possibility to...

After over a year, BlackBerry Indonesia’s Marketing Director, Eka Anwar, is said to leave the Canada-based company to join local telco company, Bakrie Telekom (BTEL), according to Indotelko. Anwar will officially join BTEL since Monday, April 15th 2013 yesterday. This move is also...

Beauty sampling is kind of big these days especially in the region where we have a lot of activities from companies like VanityTrove, Glossybox, Bellabox, Joliebox and many more. Currently the biggest player in the region, VanityTrove Indonesia is about to face a serious competition by...

We just received a tip from our reader Ryan who spotted Google’s new Play Store to support buying apps using carrier billing via Telkomsel’s network. Ryan attached a screenshot below showing the payment option to “Set up Telkomsel billing account” which indicates an...

The Jakarta Post Travel today announces the launch of Travelog, a user generated platform where users can submit articles about their travelling experiences. The platform itself works exactly like Digg or Stumbleupon where people can get their content promoted on the site and get their content...

After the whole shenanigans about Zalora Indonesia laying off more 25 people in the merchandising department we wrote end of last week, Zalora’s PR team approach us with an explanation about the unfortunate layoff. We did heard that the merchandising team grew too aggressively with...

Zalora Indonesia, one of the fastest growing fashion e-commerce sites in the country, a few days ago laid off more than 10% of its workforce in its Jakarta office. Most of the people who got laid off were from its merchandising team which according to some sources are “growing too...

A very innovative feature just launched by Tees Indonesia, an online custom t-shirt company led by entrepreneur Aria Rajasa. After successful with GantiBaju.com, now Rajasa launched Tees Indonesia which is still in the similar t-shirt industry enabling people to submit designs and get them...

A very innovative feature just launched by Tees Indonesia, an online custom t-shirt company led by entrepreneur Aria Rajasa. After successful with GantiBaju.com, now Rajasa launched Tees Indonesia which is still in the similar t-shirt industry enabling people to submit designs and get them...

One of Indonesia’s famous e-commerce site for electronics, Bhinneka recently launched a sub-service under their site called Bhinneka Travel. The content of the website, as you probably guessed, is related to hotel room search and travel packages affiliated with hotel deal search...