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Metamoji’s Note Anytime: Handwritten Notes on Your iPad
Readers may remember last year when we featured Metamoji’s 7notes iPad application, which conveniently converts your handwriting into text. Recently, the company also pushed out a similar note-taking...
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Indonesia’s Ministry Sites are Favorite Target for Hackers
The threat posed by malicious hackers to companies and the government in Indonesia continues to grow stronger, although so far there hasn’t been any significant damage to speak of. Not yet anyway,...
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GameSaku’s Hendri Salim Shares Insights About the Startup’s Life with Apps...
One of the milestones in many startups’ progress is when they decide to look for and receive investment from venture capitalists or investors to accelerate their business growth. We recently spoke...
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NHK: Softbank in Talks to Buy More Than Two Thirds of Sprint
Reuters is citing an NHK report today that Japanese carrier Softbank (TSE:9984) is “in talks” to buy over two thirds of American carrier Sprint (NYSE:S) for $12.8 billion. It was just last week when we...
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Remember China’s Only US IPO of 2012? It’s Doing Rather Well Right Now
Remember VIPShop (NYSE:VIPS), the Chinese flash e-commerce sales site that’s the only company from China to list fully in the US this whole year? After an initial rough ride right after its IPO debut...
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GEPI and US Embassy Promise $5,000 to Intellectual Property App Challenge...
Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI) and the US Embassy are working together to hold the Intellectual Property (IP) App Challenge. The prize? A hefty $5,000 for the best app in two...
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Qihoo 360′s Latest War: Duking it Out With “Science Cop” Fang Zhouzi
Fang Zhouzi, via mybetter.cn The folks at Qihoo 360 sure know how to sling some mud. And “science cop” anti-fraud and anti-counterfeit crusader Fang Zhouzi is no stranger to a mudfight either, come to...
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欢迎欢迎! Tech in Asia Chinese Officially Launched
2012 has been a year filled with fun and excitement for Tech in Asia. Not only have we kickstarted our first ever Startup Asia conferences in Singapore and Jakarta, but our Hackathon at Bandung is...
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Looking for a Job that Pays $100,000 Annual Salary? Try BizReach
BizReach is a jobs marketplace that only offers high-level jobs, meaning only job positions that offer $100,000 or more annually. Interestingly, BizReach adopts, as it describes, a “reverse business...
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Free Weibo Gives You Totally Uncensored Sina Weibo Search
Just yesterday I wrote a piece about what the internet in China might look like if it wasn’t censored, and today I got a note saying things have gotten just a bit more free. Free Weibo is a new site...
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Yotomo Marks 10-Year Anniversary of Bali Bombing with Special Check-In Badge
Today is the ten-year anniversary of the deadly Bali bombing. Indonesia and the rest of the world are marking it in many ways. Indonesian location-based app Yotomo is helping to mark the day by...
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Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize for Literature Win Leaves China’s E-Commerce Sites Out...
Many Chinese e-commerce sites are celebrating Mo Yan's Nobel literature win - but have run out of his most famous works. China’s e-commerce sites are struggling to meet demand for the books of Mo Yan...
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Japan’s Social Restaurant Finder ‘Retty’ Raises $1.2 Million, Starts Global...
Japanese social gourmet site/ restaurant finder Retty just announced that it has raised a total of $1.2 million from GREE Ventures, NTT Investment-Partners, and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital. The startup has...
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Rumor: Baidu To Spin Off LBS Division As It Focuses on Local and Maps
With so many web searches being for local things [1], China’s Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) is rumored to be focusing more on location-based services (LBS) for local searches. To do this, the search engine...
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Skyfire Raises $10 Million, Plans Expansion to Europe and Asia
California-based company Skyfire makes a number of mobile products for both consumers and mobile operators. Some iOS users may be familiar with the Skyfire browser, which brings the ability to play...
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Tencent: WeChat App Has Gone Global, Now a Growing Ratio of Worldwide Users...
China’s Tencent (HKG:0700) calls WeChat its “most important app,” the likes of which they’ve “never seen before in 10 years” at China’s biggest web company – nor ever before from a Chinese web...
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Startup Asia Bandung Hackathon: Developers, You Are Not Alone
There’s only one day to go. Developers, as you all know, our upcoming Bandung hackathon presents many challenges and provides a number of APIs to work with. And of course, there are lots of prizes...
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Melbourne Accelerator Program: The First University-Run Accelerator in Australia
The Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) is Australia’s first and only startup accelerator run by The University of Melbourne, and is an initiative offered by the Melbourne School of Engineering. It...
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Compfest 2012 Kicks off Tech-filled Fall Season in Indonesia
Computer Festival (CompFest) 2012 will be held on October 13th (tomorrow) and 14th at the Central Library in Indonesia University. Visitors can come and enjoy the various IT-related events, including...
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Gangnam Style Gone Wrong? An American in Beijing Kicks it Laowai Style
Last Friday we brought you an assortment of alternative interpretations of PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style.’ Well, here’s another one that’s could have easily made that list. It’s from a very creative American...
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