AccelerAsia

AccelerAsia has used the Christmas break to move into a great new office on 55B Amoy Street, right in the heart of the business district.

2012 has seen us grow tremendously; in terms of staff we grew from 3 to 6 people and in terms of new clients and revenue the growth was even more impressive. The new office gives us a great opportunity to continue this growth and, not unimportantly, puts us right in the middle of a number of great restaurants and bars to celebrate the success. Come and see us soon when you get the chance!

We are pleased to announce that Baracoda Media (http://www.baracodamedia.com) has chosen AccelerAsia to help with its expansion in Asia.
Baracoda Media, a French technology start-up, is a cloud based mobile radio service provider built on a highly scalable and socially extensible technology platform. Baracoda Media’s carrier grade radio platform is currently used by the Orange Group and is available from many IP devices, including iPhone, iPad and Android. Baracoda Media has also launched its own application Radio Line on Mac, with releases for iPhone and Android anticipated for early 2012.

AccelerAsia will be responsible for all business development activities in South East Asia and will focus its efforts on forming partnerships with Mobile Operators and handset manufacturers with whom we have excellent relationships already because of the work we are doing for current clients and have done in the past for previous clients.

We’re very excited to announce that Jana, a fast growing startup from the US, has selected AccelerAsia to help it grow in Asia. Jana was formerly known as txteagle but has rebranded recently in the light of their global expansion.

Jana empowers global organizations to directly engage with emerging market consumers in over 85 countries via mobile phones. Jana’s proprietary technology targets and rewards 2.1 billion consumers with free mobile talk time as an incentive to complete surveys or purchase products. Jana Research provides real time insights about consumer behavior in emerging markets, such as brand preferences of specific demographic groups. Jana Marketing enables global brands to sell products to their next billion consumers with targeted, social offers.

Jana is a rapidly-growing, early-stage start-up with $10M in funding backed by Spark Capital, the Blackberry Partners Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Flywheel Ventures, the Royal Bank of Canada, and Esther Dyson.  txteagle is presently earning revenue in 49 countries, with partnerships in place that will enable the expansion to 80 by year end.

AccelerAsia will be visiting clients and agencies in the region in the coming weeks accompanied by senior Jana management and we are looking forward to a longlasting and successful relationship.

Pointlogic, a Dutch firm with offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and headquartered in Rotterdam, combines cutting-edge research, advanced mathematical modeling, and flexible software tools to enable its clients to make smart decisions. Pointlogic applies fresh, analytical thinking to problems. It then uses powerful mathematical modeling to generate insight into clients’ choices. Most importantly, Pointlogic deliver concretes, software-based solutions that clients can both implement and distribute across internal and partner networks.

The leading provider of integrated marketing communications and marketing ROI solutions, Pointlogic is active in several different industries, including media, marketing, human resource management and logistics. Its client base consists out of multinational corporations and governments and covers over 60 international markets.

AccelerAsia will work with Pointlogic in a Business Development capacity and help build name recognition and drive sales in several key markets in the region.

This interesting article in the Economist shows the enormous potential for various social media in this region, especially on mobile platforms. Tantalising opportunities await the early movers.

http://www.economist.com/node/17853348?story_id=17853348.

This week we sign an agreement with Qubulus, a Swedish company that specialises in indoor positioning systems.

Qubulus provides the infrastructure inside malls, airports, event areas, and other indoor areas that enables the most accurate and reliable positioning of mobile phones to date.

Depending on the business needs of the client Qubulus can configure a system delivery that can be everything from a pure software setup to installations of hardware that increase accuracy and enable security & alarm, smart logistics, flow analysis and much more.

Indoor positioning is a fast growing new field in the technology world and we are excited to be working with Qubulus to build up and expand their business in Asia where there is no shortage of malls, exhibition halls and airports.

Over the last two or three decades Singapore has made itself a wealthy place in the sun by establishing a sort of familiar, safe and sound enclave for international banks and businesses to set up regional bases for operations in South East Asia. But what about its entrepreneurial ambitions?

Peter Day has been sampling the views of some of people who have started businesses here in recent years and asks them if Singapore is now a natural home to innovative business people.

Listen to his programme (2 parts) here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bt8m6

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bybnf

We have recently agreed a joint venture in Asia with L.I.B. Businessgames, the Dutch company specialised in organising business games where technology is not used at all but where people are encouraged to work together in person. After the visit of Mr Gijs van der Linden, the founder of the company, in July we managed to sign up a number of companies interested in trying out this innovative and effective concept. Our first clients now include Microsoft, for whom we have organised a number of tailor made games, Credit Suisse, for whom we have organised a few strategy & negotiating games and De Lage Landen (a Rabobank company), for whom we have organised a game to conclude and round off a regional Management Team meeting.
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According to a recently released 70 country report by The Economist Intelligence Group, many markets in Asia are catching up with their counterparts in Europe and North America in terms of their “e-readiness”. The report looks at evaluating and ranking countries to assess who has the most advanced “digital economy”.
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AccelerAsia has signed an agreement with Nimbuzz, the fast growing leader in the social messaging space. Nimbuzz has received numerous awards for its cross-platform, converged solution, that meets customer needs without undermining mobile operators and was honored for demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technology. 
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