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Singapore’s TMG Raises S$1 Million From One97 Mobility Fund
Singapore-based TheMobileGamer (TMG) has secured its second round of funding at S$1 million (US$819,000) solely led by One97MobilityFund. This takes the total amount of investment to S$1.5 million with...
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TheMobileGamer on Asia and its Plan for Indonesia [INTERVIEW]
TMG, or TheMobileGamer, creates mobile social games that run on Kotagames.com such as Club Wars Advance, Trade Wars and Mobile Fight. Last month, we reported that Singapore-based TMG raised $1 million...
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This Month’s Founders Drinks is on Usability, Design, and Monetization of...
Last month's Founders Drinks: We talk about how founders can use social media for user acquisition Update: Lichi Wu, director of biz dev at Chalkboard, will take Bernard’s place. Made changes to Chris...
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Discussion Panel: Starting up in Singapore: the Good and the Bad [LIVEBLOG]
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. Summary...
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TMG’s SuperSlank Hits Over 300,000 Gamers On mig33 in 2 Weeks
Building games on Facebook or even Sina Weibo can bring you plenty of users. But TheMobileGamer (TMG) has found success by planting its games on mig33’s 60 million user-strong social platform. Its...
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TMG Boasts 3 Million Users, 100x Growth in a Year
If you pay attention to startups in Singapore and Indonesia, you have probably heard about The Mobile Gamer (TMG), a startup that builds mobile games on platforms like mig33, as well as, Kotagames,...
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Alvin Yap Talks about Monetizing the Feature Phone Industry [INTERVIEW]
Alvin Yap, CEO and founder of TMG Readers may recall when we discussed feature phone business opportunities in Indonesia with Andy Zain. Continuing that discussion, we spoke with Alvin Yap, the founder...
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SingTel Invests $1.46 Million in TheMobileGamer
Singapore’s largest telco has invested $1.46 million in TheMobileGamer (TMG) for 35.54 percent equity. That puts TMG’s valuation at about $4.1 million. For those who aren’t familiar with the company,...
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Startup Asia Bandung Hackathon: The Winners
After all the coffee, snacks, and code-crunching that more than 600 developers went through at the 24-hour hackathon at Startup Asia Bandung, came the highly-anticipated demo day. All the developers...
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TMG Targets 10 Million Users By End of 2013
Big dreams, big targets: The Mobile Gamer (TMG), who boasted 3 million users when we heard from them earlier this year, is aiming to have 10 million users by the end of 2013. Co-founder Vincent Wang...
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How The Mobile Gamer (TMG) Hustles For Growth in Southeast Asia
Singapore-based startup The Mobile Gamer (TMG) has come a long way since it was founded in December 2008. The initial idea for the company was far from what it has become today. The team started off...
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Varhara Review: No Frills Mobile Card Collecting
Varhara is the newest title coming out of Singapore-based The Mobile Gamer that endeavors to tap into the lucrative mobile collectible card game genre. This comes of the back of record-breaking...
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Before succeeding, being a startup founder sucks big time
Update: For greater accuracy on facts, we made minor changes to the fourth paragraph based on information we learned from Alvin Yap. At the Founder Institute Singapore graduation event yesterday,...
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Fired TheMobileGamer staff voice grievances online, CEO Alvin Yap responds
Update: Elaboration from Vichi Lestari about Indonesian labor law and whether companies are obliged to follow it. Singapore startup TheMobileGamer (TMG) is going through a shake-up, and this was...
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SingTel acquires 35.5% stake in TheMobileGamer for USD 1.5M
SingTel announced today that it has acquired a 35.5% stake in Singapore-based TheMobileGamer (TMG), a startup that aggregates, distributes, licenses and develops mobile gaming software. The shares were...
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After patent lawsuit, startup founder overcomes 6-month depression
Daryl Teo, vice president of product at TMG An alumnus from the prestigious Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College, 22-year-old Singaporean Daryl Teo was on a fast track towards a glittery,...
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Indonesia Digest: TMG plans to expand to Jakarta, blocking 4shared, and more
Here you can find some interesting startup news from Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other their tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These...
View ArticleSingapore’s TMG Raises S$1 Million From One97 Mobility Fund
Singapore-based TheMobileGamer (TMG) has secured its second round of funding at S$1 million (US$819,000) solely led by One97MobilityFund. This takes the total amount of investment to S$1.5 million with...
View ArticleIndonesia Digest: TMG plans to expand to Jakarta, blocking 4shared, and more
Here you can find some interesting startup news from Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other their tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These listed...
View ArticleTheMobileGamer on Asia and its Plan for Indonesia [INTERVIEW]
TMG, or TheMobileGamer, creates mobile social games that run on Kotagames.com such as Club Wars Advance, Trade Wars and Mobile Fight. Last month, we reported that Singapore-based TMG raised $1 million...
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