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Interview with Happy Elements: More Lucrative to Build Games for International Social Networks

[Translate] Recently, I had the pleasure of dining with Happy Elements, Kabam, Kontagent, Joyport, and Offerpal at a dinner I helped organize in DinTaiFung at Shanghai’s Ritz-Carlton Portman Hotel. I had a great time dining and talking with two key employees of Happy Elements, Ronny Xu, Chief Product Office, and Mike Li, Director of Business...

CampusFork’s “Food Porn” Arouses Both Diners and Entrepreneurs

[Translate] CampusFork.com features seductive and compelling restaurant food photos that offers a unique experience for prospective diners and marketing opportunities for restaurateurs. Rayfil Wong, an American Born Chinese San Francisco native, created CampusFork by fusing elements of HotOrNot.com with Flickr.com, allowing users and restaurant owners to upload provocative food images. Wong, who describes himself as...

Tagged Raised $5 Million And Available For Acquisition

[Translate] Tagged is a San Franciso based social network founded by my friend Greg Tseng, an Asian American entrepreneur, and Johann Schleier-Smith. Tagged is different from Facebook in that it engages users who want to find new friends. Greg told me that Tagged is doing well with 25 million monthly users, 4 billion monthly page...

CrunchyRoll, The Hulu Focus On Anime And Asian Content

[Translate] CrunchyRoll, founded in 2006 by some UC Berkeley undergraduates, can be viewed as the Hulu for Asian content.  CrunchyRoll has a strong niche social networking community focused on Asian entertainment including but not limited to anime, music, manga, cars, and games. They received 4 million in funding from Venrock in early 2008, and have...

RockYou, Asian Silicon Valley Co-founders Look To Rock Asia

[Translate] [Gang Lu: There are some companies which you know they are based in Silicon Valley or somewhere outside Asia and they are already the shining stars in global web2.0 industry, but you probably do not know their co-founders are actually originally from Asia. They obviously have some advantage when they expand to Asia. We...