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Exclusive: Unveiling Project Magellan, SingTel’s Guiding Vision for Acquisitions
(Original photo: islaythedragon.com) SingTel’s series of acquisitions and investments has turned many heads in the Southeast Asian tech scene. The buying spree seems to have started off with Amobee, a...
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Zhou Hongyi Talks Innovation, Destruction, and Defense
Beheadings during the French Revolution. (I promise this is relevant, just keep reading) I have made no secret of my personal distaste for Qihoo 360 CEO Zhou Hongyi and his obnoxiously belligerent PR...
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Beijing Cake Startups: Cartoons Vs. Custom Cupcakes
You might not think that cake-based e-commerce would be a hugely competitive market in China, but at least in Beijing, you would be wrong. In honor of the strange craving I’m having for cake right now,...
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Singapore’s NUS Enterprise Block Party 2012
Singapore’s NUS Enterprise is organizing a party to welcome all entrepreneurs and friends of the entrepreneurship scene to join in an evening of fun and laughter. It will be held on November 6,...
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GREE Continues Overseas Investment Taking Minority Stake in eBuddy
GREE booth, 2012 Tokyo Game Show It looks as though Japanese gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) is continuing its activities overseas, this time with investment in chat service eBuddy, based in the...
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Chinese Gaming Portal YY Shoots For US IPO
This is YY's mascot for the Duowan site. (Image: newgame.duowan.com) The Chinese gaming and downloads portal YY.com has taken its first step towards a US IPO – despite the frosty conditions for Chinese...
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FxCamera for Android Announces 20 Million Downloads, iPhone Version on the Way
Earlier this year we wrote about Japan-based Bitcellar and its free Android camera app FxCamera. At that time it had just raised over $5 million from JAFCO Super V3 Investment Limited Partnership, and...
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ZTE Wins Major Contract to Build China Mobile’s 4G Network in 5 Cities
China Mobile shows off a 4G-equipped car at a recent event (Image: Techinasia.com) Phone-maker and telecoms firm ZTE (HKG:0763; SHE:000063) might be reviled in the US, but it’s still loved by fellow...
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Hotel Comparison App ‘I Find Hotels’ is Now Available in Indonesian
‘I Find Hotels’ is an iOS hotel comparison app made by Australia-based company HotelsCombined.com. Interestingly the app doesn’t compare hotel rates directly, but instead it compares hotel rates...
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A Reader App From China Thinks It Knows What You Want to Read
One of China’s most innovative reading apps, Wumii Reader has just upgraded its Android app to version 2.0. In contrast to many other apps that demand you add in lots of subscriptions or preferred...
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Fujitsu’s Video Data Transmission Technology Could Make Commercials Fun Again
photo: phileweb.com We’ve written a lot about QR codes recently, especially with Chinese application WeChat using them creatively as part of social chat platform. But here’s another exciting new data...
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Food Recommendation App Mines Weibo Data For Restaurant Tips
Where to eat? What to eat? These are the two questions that I ask myself every day. Most of the time, many of us run out of ideas about what to eat for our meals. HaoYouMeiShi (“mei shi” means “good...
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Can Asia Take the Lead in the Next Generation of Social Games?
About the Author: Sangeet Paul Choudary writes regularly on strategies for online markets, and works closely with startups in these spaces in India, Singapore, and the US. You can follow him on...
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Foxconn Says it Employed Some Workers as Young as 14 [Report]
From Bloomberg: [Foxconn] (TPE:2354) said it found interns as young as 14 had worked at a facility in Yantai, northeastern China, confirming a report by an advocacy group. A company investigation found...
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China’s Official Train Ticket Smartphone App Now Coming in November, Maybe
China’s notoriously corrupt Railway Ministry has been having what we might generously call a tough time with its 12306 online ticket sales website. That’s mostly because the site doesn’t work, and...
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Chinese Customs to Sieze Mobile Devices for “Illegal Maps”
Well, the battle for the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands just got a little more annoying. China’s official Xinhua news agency is reporting that “Chinese customs officials have been told to strengthen...
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The Crazy Ones
Some entrepreneurs are just crazy, nonsensical, or even rude, but still successful. Qihoo’s Zhou Hongyi is one. He has had a few fights recently which you can read more about here. My colleague...
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A Look at “Glorious Mission,” China’s Military-Produced Call of Duty Clone
The People’s Liberation Army-developed game Glorious Mission kicked up quite a fuss a few years back when a trailer appeared to show that the American military might be playing the role of enemy in...
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Beepmo Updates, Introduces Discovery Feature to Make Business Networking Easier
A couple of months back, my colleagues Willis and Rick wrote about Beepmo launching in public beta. Today, we’ve received word from Beepmo that it has introduced a new “Discovery” feature, which...
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One Chinese App Store Holds a Beauty Pageant for Android Apps
I’ve long believed that Google needs to do more to push for and promote beautiful-looking Android apps – preferably by splashing out a fair amount of its profits to top developers in the form of...
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