Yahoo Would Stretcher Koprol into the World Level
After the acquisition of location-based networking site, owned Koprol.com SkyEight Indonesia, Yahoo! Inc. has prepared various plans. Yahoo! Do not just want to deploy this service in local markets, but also bring Koprol to all countries. Thus, users can go to Koprol when inserting the identity of Yahoo!.
Vice President and Director of Yahoo! Southeast Asia, Yvonne Chang said the society will be increasingly dependent on mobile phones to communicate and access the Internet. “This is happening in developing countries and we see this potential to introduce Yahoo! On new Internet users,” said Yvonne.
According to Rose, somersault that has loyal users will chime in with a global-scale technologies owned by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Also will use the information disseminated through the Koprol to make the application homepage, the media, and communications products.
Yvonne count, the Indonesian market to save a huge potential for Internet penetration is still small. On the other hand, Yahoo! Realize that a lot of Indonesian people who access the Internet via mobile phone.
In entering new markets, Yahoo! Confessed always give priority to local content providers. Then, Koprol distinctiveness that can be accessed through mobile phones and a social character also meets the requirements of the searchable Yahoo!. In addition to tumble, apparently Yahoo! Also still lirak-lyric site alias beginners start up another. “We saw there were some start-up potential in Indonesia, but anyone who is targeted and where the process has come, we are still secret,” says Yvonne.
According to Dawn Budiprasetyo, one of the founders Koprol, the company receives 100% of this acquisition because the same vision with Yahoo!. “We both want to raise Koprol,” said Dawn. Unfortunately he was reluctant to divulge the value of this acquisition. (KONTAN / Prana Ning Dyah Indira, Indira Prana Dyah Ning)
