David Fernando, co-founder of Philippine mobile operator Smart, was reportedly killed by a collapsing wall during tropical storm Ondoy.
Nokia has confirmed it had acquired London-based travel and social networking firm Dopplr. Financial details were not disclosed.
HongKong content delivery solution provider BNS has won an exclusive contract to deploy IPTV services in Taiwan for local in-building service provider Max Media.
Singaporean operator M1 has partnered with Global Yellow Pages Media to develop a tailored yellow pages listing service for its business customers.
Chinese search engine Baidu yesterday launched a beta version of its wireless search service in Japan. The company officially entered the Japanese market in 2008, launching Baidu.jp.
China’s biggest portal Sina has called off its attempted merger with outdoor advertising group Focus Media.
The APEJ market is warming up to open source software, according to an IDC survey. For example, 34.5% of Indonesian organizations will launch open source CRM software over the next 18 months.