Mar 8, 2011
Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze, the first company to tap the market demand for multi-lingual community-oriented Internet messaging services. In 1998, Outblaze pioneered the provision of multi-lingual online community services that allowed other companies to offer such services to their users without having to develop or buy expensive platforms themselves.
Jan 15, 2009
Hong Kong’s home-grown “Internet conglomerate” Outblaze just sold its email business to IBM. Congrat Yat and the Outblaze team! There are no details about the size of the transaction, but Outblaze’s blog now says an update will come next week. Correction: As @peterschloss correctly points out, you could hardly term Outblaze a startup. It has
Jun 2, 2008
Odd MMORPG cross-dressing: World of Warcraft fanatics have been banging at the doors to beta test the Hello Kitty Online game. The Sanriotown site, run by Hong Kong company Outblaze, launched a “Video Pitch” competition for 3,000 beta memberships based on the most creative videos about why people should be allowed into the game. Yat
Mar 29, 2008
Outblaze is a Hong Kong-based company that I recently blogged about. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxDivFVKFpQ]
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
