Archive for Interviews

Interview | The Digital Silk Road

Interviews ThoughtsPublished April 17, 2010 at 2:04 am No Comments

For our francophone readers, we got interviewed by the French Chamber of Commerce & Industry in China for their monthly magazine “Connexions“.

Interview | Innovating From East to West

+8* Interviews ThoughtsPublished April 15, 2010 at 1:02 am No Comments

“A handful of Asian brands – and the great ideas they represent – have become fixtures in living rooms, kitchens and garages around the world. But why have so few big names from the East made it in the West?”

China’s Internet Empires | Solid Strategy or Reckless Diversification?

China Interviews ThoughtsPublished April 14, 2010 at 4:29 am No Comments

China International Business interviewed us for a column on “China’s Internet Empires“, looking at how the largest Internet groups in China were diversifying. Is there a logic to it? Are they spreading themselves too thin trying to cover news, search, gaming, cloud computing, email, payment and social networking?

Morgan Stanley Quotes Our Inside Tencent Report

+8* Interviews QQPublished February 7, 2010 at 1:21 pm No Comments

Great Morgan Stanley report on Mobile Internet and Tech trends. We helped them a bit.

Replicating Tencent’s Model? Forbes Quotes Our View on Vietnam’s VinaGame

+8* Featured Interviews QQ ThoughtsPublished February 6, 2010 at 2:10 am No Comments

Our view on Vietnam’s online gaming leader VinaGame and more generally on how to look at developing Internet markets.

Full Version of ReadWriteWeb Interview on Beijing’s Tech Scene

+8* Interviews ThoughtsPublished February 4, 2010 at 12:27 pm No Comments

Our full interview with ReadWriteWeb, parts of which were used in their “Never Mind the Valley” piece on Beijing.

Interview | Singapore UnConference: Asian Social Networks

+8* InterviewsPublished July 20, 2009 at 3:35 pm No Comments

Along with our talk at the unConference Singapore 2009, the organizers reached out to interview some of the speakers there. Here is our interview (with minor edits – original version is here).
e27: First of all, could you tell us a little about how you ended up living and working in Asia during the past 9
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Interview | The Economist | Changyou on NASDAQ + Some extra views

+8* China Interviews ThoughtsPublished April 5, 2009 at 9:42 pm Comments Off

The online game subsidiary of Sohu, China’s #2 web portal, Changyou, went public last week on NASDAQ, breaking a spell of several months without IPO. Reporting on this story, The Economist asked us some comments and provided interesting angles. We’ll complete the picture with some extra comments.

Interview | YLE | Nokian kännykkämyynti Kiinassa notkahtaa

+8* 3g China InterviewsPublished February 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm Comments Off

How long was it since you last practiced your Finnish? A few weeks ago we responded to an interview by Finland’s national broadcasting company YLE (Finland’s CCTV) about the evolution of the Chinese mobile market – with a special interest in Nokia (Nokian?).
The following article (Google translate) came along with a video interview planned to
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Interview | CNN.com | China restructures mobile market ready for 3G force

+8* 3g China Interviews JapanPublished January 29, 2009 at 3:40 pm 3 Comments

Now that the 3G doves have been set free by regulators, questions abound on what 3G really means and might bring to the market. Will it change the life of users? Will it make billions for operators? Will it save content providers? We provided some ideas on what marketers can expect from 3G in China
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