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GREE Working With More US-based Indie Developers
GREE booth at Tokyo Game Show 2012 Japanese gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) is announcing a new developer program that aims to support independent developers in the United States. It’s called ‘GREE Loves...
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Tencent Acquires a Struggling Smaller Rival to Boost E-Commerce Efforts
We’re seeing a lot of struggling Chinese e-commerce sites these days, with a number of smaller e-tailers imploding under the weight of costs in the B2C sector. Some have failed spectacularly; others...
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Studio HIVE: Creating Beautiful Games in Bangkok
Skan Srisuwan and Kan Supabanpot With clients such as Square Enix, Lucas Arts, Namco Bandai, Top Cow, and Stan Lee’s POW Entertainment, Studio HIVE is Thailand’s number one art outsourcing studio for...
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iBanke Provides Online to Offline Home-Moving Solution
As the internet industry continues to boom in China, it is easy to foresee more businesses and startups engaging in online to offline (O2O) services. The O2O business concept has yet to be fully...
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BlackBerry JamHack Challenges Asian Developers to Build an App in 40 Hours
Photo: Pinoybbdev.com BlackBerry is really in need of help in its app section. Now RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) is turning to developers in the region and asking them to boost the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform...
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ZTE: We’re Safe For US Markets, and Committee Has No Proof of Any Risk
U.S. Congressional investigators have decided that Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE (HKG:0763; SHE:000063) pose a threat to American telecommunications security, recommending that “American firms...
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AppSpree: A Free App Cross Promotion Network for Early Startups
It’s just over three weeks until Chinaccelerator 2012 officially graduates its newest flock of startups, but we’re already seeing some of the incubated businesses get going. One of these is AdConnect,...
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Another Game Seeks Your Vote on Steam Greenlight, as Malaysian Game Devs Look...
Steam Greenlight is the Kickstarter for game developers, but instead of pledges, the developers need to get people’s support so as to earn a spot at the Steam online store. We previously talked about...
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Indonesia’s Axis to Sell Nano SIMs Tomorrow
Indonesian mobile carrier Axis will be the next operator providing nano SIM cards for customers. The card becomes available starting tomorrow, October 10. Axis nano SIM cards are supplied free of...
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Japanese Game Ameba Pico Collaborates With Indonesian Girl Group Cherrybelle
Japanese virtual world game Ameba Pico has made an official collaboration with Indonesian all-girl pop group Cherrybelle. During the promotional period, which starts from today and runs until October...
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Submit Your Idea For Asia’s First Social Innovations Camp
This is just a quick reminder that the October 19 ‘call for ideas’ deadline for Asia’s first Social Innovations Camp in Kuala Lumpur is quickly approaching. For any entrepreneurs or creative folks out...
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Nijibox: From a Recruit Spinoff to a Rapidly Expanding Gaming Company
Readers may remember that we recently featured Nijibox (nijibox.jp), a Japanese game developer whose Costume Fantasia title has recently been pushed to Southeast Asia via the mig33 platform. The...
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Indonesia Holds International Conference on Cyber Security
Starting today, the Ministry of Communication and IT (MCIT) hosted the Indonesia Information Security Forum (IISF) in Bandung. The government would like to increase the protection of certain...
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Microsoft Will Launch Kinect for Windows in China (Sort Of)
Although it hasn’t yet proven to be quite the gaming revolution Microsoft was hoping for, all it takes is a search of the phrase “Kinect hack” on Youtube to see that Microsoft’s motion-sensing device...
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The NBA Becomes an Official Tmall Vendor
The NBA is super popular in China. So is Tmall, Alibaba’s upscale brands-only no-knockoffs-here e-commerce site. Yesterday, the NBA announced that it has officially partnered with Tmall to become a...
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Chinese Study Explains Why Mobile Phone Ban Doesn’t Reduce Traffic Accidents
Putting down your phone won't prevent this It’s one of those things that’s almost too widely accepted to bother studying: mobile phone use in cars causes traffic accidents. Everyone — especially...
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NoLimit Shares Its Experience as Startup Arena Alumni
There are three days until the first Startup Asia event in Bandung. We’re so close to 24 hours of coding excitement, followed by pitches on a big stage in front of qualified judges. Are you ready? You...
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Softbank Rolls out New Winter Smartphone Line Up
Aquos Phone Xx (photo: blog.goo.ne.jp) At an event in Tokyo yesterday, Softbank (TSE:9984) announced its 2012 Winter / 2013 Spring smartphone line up. This was a chance for the company to show off its...
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Now With Over 1 Billion Netizens, This is How Asia is Social and Mobile in...
Let’s step back and take a look at the big picture of the web in Asia in 2012. We see internet penetration in the region has jumped from 24 percent last year, to 27 percent now. And with that comes a...
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Hubbl Brings a Social Element to App Discovery
Finding apps that you like and find useful can be a little bit tricky given all the choices that are out there. We recently looked at India-based Appszito which proposes an alternative way to search....
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