This Month’s Founders Drinks is on Usability, Design, and Monetization of...
Update: Lichi Wu, director of biz dev at Chalkboard, will take Bernard’s place. Made changes to Chris Ismael’s profile. Unfortunately, Alvin Yap can’t join us for the session. But we’ll have a friend...
View ArticleDiscussion 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 Nicholas...
View ArticleTMG’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...
View ArticleTMG 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,...
View ArticleAlvin Yap Talks about Monetizing the Feature Phone Industry [INTERVIEW]
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 and CEO of mobile gaming...
View ArticleSingTel 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.
View ArticleSingTel 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,...
View ArticleStartup 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...
View ArticleTMG 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleVarhara 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...
View ArticleBefore 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,...
View ArticleFired 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...
View ArticleKotaGames portal to shut down, TheMobileGamer’s future unclear
TheMobileGamer‘s KotaGames service for browser-based games played on mobile browsers is apparently shutting down, reveal developers today whose games were featured in the service. More importantly, the...
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