RTM-Asia News Bites

Can Japan break Indonesia's Twitter dominance in Asia? http://us.asiancorrespondent.com/jon-russell/can-japan-break-indonesia-s-twitter-dominance-in-asia on July 26

Marc Benioff via TechCrunch: 85% of enterprise software is bought in 3 core markets: the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. Ignoring Japan means ignoring one of the most important opportunities. RTM Asia is helping SalesForce.com partners in Japan http://tcrn.ch/cZSArc on June 14

Big Day in Asia’s Internet industry. Today, Korea’s NHN said it will buy major Japanese portal Livedoor, and now Tencent, China’s largest Internet company, has announced it plans to invest $300 million in cash into Russian investment firm Digital Sky Tech http://tcrn.ch/a5OH1P on April 15

Japan SaaS Market Surpasses US$1 billion in 2009, Larger Than the Rest of Asia ... http://bit.ly/bHrTWW on February 18

Softbank Fuels Ustream.tv With $75M Series B For Asia Expansion Live-streaming company Ustream.tv Inc. has raised $75 million in Series B financing from Softbank of Japan to take advantage of the advanced mobile technologies in Asia and crack a huge market. www.ustream.tv on February 06

Softbank Fuels Ustream.tv With $75M Series B For Asia Expansion Live-streaming company Ustream.tv Inc. has raised $75 million in Series B financing from Softbank of Japan to take advantage of the advanced mobile technologies in Asia and crack a huge market. www.ustream.tv on February 06

Japan 2008 mobile commerce was $7B. Japan 2008 mobile content was $5B. on January 25

China has 50% mobile phone penetration and 25% internet penetration. Lots more growth opportunity. on January 25

Which countries originated the most internet searches in December 2009? 3 of the top 7 are all in Asia-Pacific (#2 China, #3 Japan, #7 Korea). Is your site localized to be visible? Only 2 out of the top 10 countries have only English as their official national language. on January 23

When thinking about China, think about how are you going to get paid? Only 2% of Chinese consumers have credit cards. on January 19

5,713 visitors to SaaS World Japan where RTM Asia brought leading SaaS vendors Adaptive Planning, Inside View, BigMachines, SuccessFactors and NetSuite on January 17

Social Networking & Search space is different in Asia-Pacific. As an example, in SE-Asia, Friendster just recently Strikes Deal With Yahoo Southeast Asia http://bit.ly/4KUKM4 on January 14

The top 9 games companies in Japan are bigger than the top 18 electronics companies in terms of annual net revenue (Source: EuroTechnology blog, July 2009) on December 27

Wall Street Journal "China to Claim Half of Online Game Market" from report by Shanghai-based market research firm iResearch. on December 16

TIG opened Korea, Japan, India, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan & China. TIG took the unusual step of starting from scratch, despite language & cultural barriers. "It's been a complete learning experience. We had to learn all the laws and regulations. It was a nightmare" on December 05

Congrats to Immunet (and RTM Asia team for their small part): PR Newswire "Immunet Announces Exclusive Japanese Distribution Agreement" http://bit.ly/5Wwebt on December 02

According to Gartner, APAC to see fastest enterprise software revenue growth. 13.8% in 2008 and 10.8% in 2009. Excluding Japan, China will continue to lead software demand in the region followed by Australia, South Korea and India. http://bit.ly/7wpw88 on November 30

From Springboard regarding enterprise software, "Given the language and cultural issues, as well as expectations over localized products and localized support and services, operating in China via an indirect model is extremely challenging," Hence RTM Asia's value proposition! on November 23

China enterprise software market from Springboard: System & infrastructure represented nearly 2/3 of market in 08, SCM and content & collaboration are fastest growing in app software while middleware and security lead the system and infrastructure category http://bit.ly/4VlfR on November 23

Enterprise software market in China to become largest market in Asia-Pacific (US$9.4B by '12) said Springboard Research. 18% CAGR, high-growth software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, rapidly expanding open source adoption & cultural acceptance of software piracy http://bit.ly/4VlfR on November 23

Japan economy growing at 4.8%. TOKYO - Japan's economy expanded at an annual pace of 4.8 percent in the third quarter, the government said today, marking the second straight quarter of growth and the biggest rise in real gross domestic product since 2007. http://bit.ly/5JOdj6 on November 20

"The new growth markets will be in places like China, India and Brazil, where consumers are still spending. Consumers in those places don't want to wait years to get a product they read about online the moment it comes out." Shaun Rein writing for Forbes. on November 08

"One of Apple's biggest mistakes was that it didn't launch iPhone around the world all at once. It took far too long to get to China. In today's world, companies can no longer be strongly Americentric, starting product launches in the US alone & gradually reaching other markets" on November 08

McKinsey: Think regionally, act locally: Four steps to reaching the Asian consumer http://bit.ly/RDBxw on September 27

Forbes asks Scale Computing Founder Jeff Ready "Which company do you model your biz after?" "...Apple for product innovation & ease of use...EqualLogic for their success in building a strong channel as an early stage company..." RTM Asia built EqualLogic's Asia-Pacific channel! on September 18

ChinaCache: China's answer to Akamai (Forbes article). http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/16/chinacache-akamai-internet-intelligent-technology-china-tech-09-startup.html?partner=daily_newsletter on September 17

Yahoo Japan closes their business Social-networking service, CU (similar to LinkedIn). The service was started from Nov 2008 but got only 6,500 users. (Japanese article: http://japan.cnet.com/news/media/story/0,2000056023,20399949,00.htm?ref=rss ) on September 14

SaaS in India is growing rapidly (76% CAGR) but from a low base and with high concerns about security http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62057686,00.htm?scid=rss_z_nw on September 13

Plucky little iPhone 3GS counfounds expectations, tops Japanese sales for July. Trailing behind the aforementioned handset at number nine (and the only other American model to make the top ten) is a little something called the iPhone 3GS 16GB. Engadget on August 31

Big news from RTM Asia: NETSUITE AND FUJITSU TO BRING SAAS ERP SUITE TO MID-MARKET COMPANIES IN JAPAN. http://www.netsuite.com/portal/press/releases/nlpr08-05-09a.shtml on August 31