Dailylicious Recap This Week
The first information is dealing with the news that seems remaining hot in information technology business. It deals with the innovation and invention. It is about patents.
With no doubt, readers already read the information about the acquisition process Google upon Motorola Mobility. Before this news spreading out, Sarah Lacy wrote her opinion about patent and union. They can have good aims but can be twisted for other purposes and may be hold up the innovation process, also affected competition and customers in the pertinent country. Although the information provided deals with market condition in the USA, it is important to know. You may read the information here.
Completing the information above, there is information about acquisition process of Motorola by Google. This process is one of the Google’s needs since Motorola holds 17 thousands patent. It also deals with Android’s development. It deals with whether Google going to change its hardware partnerships policy and how development partner of android take action, and the HP’s plan to close webOS that can change the map of the game.
DailySocial also has Amir’s opinion on patent matters, which is about company valuing based on patent they hold, including the development when patent can be more valuable than gold. Although taking the USA condition as the focus, it also explains about the possibility on Indonesian market/Indonesian startups, as what DailySocial always does.
The next information from Dailylicious is the information for startups and investors in Indonesia. There is an informative link about prefered stock, especially for those who plan to get their first investment. The article can be found here.
There is also information about Indonesian startups. We have already read many articles about Indonesian startups on International media. However, we found some more articles on Huffington Post, Washington Post, Forbes, ABC News and NBC News. Although those articles are based on articles on Associated Press, it is good news for us that many international media interested in writing about Indonesian startups.
More about startup scene and digital industry in Indonesia, there are some news on it found in DailySocial. Let’s start with iSurabaya, the directory service in Surabaya, Bouncity launched its mobile web version , the new development of Scoop, Store.co.id, and Sribu.com.
Information came also from Peneroka, the newest project of Budi Putra launched officially, TMGamer got investment and plan to open a branch in Indonesia, SoybeanSoft, a game study from Yogyakarta has just received investment from East Ventures.
Other than that,Yahoo! also launched Yahoo! Post, then Cooliris collaboration with Elasitas to bring up their services, LiveShare available in Indonesia.
There are also some events reports and interviews with Square Enix people who came to Bandung and Yogyakarta. Enix Square is famous for the Final Fantasy game. Now they collaborate with Mikti to hold a game ide competition. You may find the complete articles here and here.
Back to Dailylicious, readers can read two more information, the first on come from Foursquare, a location based service, which is not only famous in the USA but also in Indonesia. Foursquare now provides facility to the user for checking-in to some events, including sports, movie, concert events provided by ESPN, Movie Tickets, and SongKick. However, Foursquare hasn’t allowed users to add their own events.
One more information is still dealing with technology industry in the USA. Recently, HP announced that they will sell their Personal Systems group in which including PC and mobile division. They will move to other enterprise solution more than the hardware for costumers. HP is also “surrender” on the webOS development.
Before closing the recap, there are interesting opinion articles from DailySocial’s editors for the readers. They are about industry and music development. There are three articles. The first is about government’s plan to close 4shared, the second is about selling the music versus selling music as experience, the last is about the chance taken by startups or people who are interested in providing music segment.
There is also an opinion about the startup development and investor development centered in Jakarta, also a love letter for Yahoo! Koprol and one interesting interview on Mrs. Shinta Dhanuwardoyo experience about her visit to Silicon Valley, especially to Facebook and Twitter office and some other places in Silicon Valley.
The last one is the information from DailySocial itself that officially announce NewsWire@DailySocial.net. This facility is the information source dealing with technology world. We decided to collect them in one place of press release which received by DailySocial so that the reader, media partner, or blogger can use the release on new products/services. It's also for startup that wants to inform their service. This NewsWire also can be used by startup or technology industry people, who need media to give information about their products. NewsWire can be accessed at wire.dailysocial.net. You can also submit press release there.
See you in the next recap and enjoy reading.