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TickTok: Save time, Queue Smart
Imagine making a special trip all the way down to your favourite restaurant only to find yourself stuck in a horrendously long queue – or, even worse, to see a ‘closed’ sign. That’s why a team of...
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This is Vietnam’s Web in 2012, As Facebook Overtakes Zing In the Country...
After last week’s Asia-wide report on the state of the web, mobile, and social media, comes the infographic from digital agency WeAreSocial that focuses on Vietnam. The big news is that Facebook has...
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China’s Shanda Games Partners with Square Enix on Mobile Games around Asia
photo: hankyung.com China’s Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME) and Japanese game developer Square Enix (TYO:9684) have announced a mobile gaming partnership, reports Marbridge Daily. The partnership will...
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China’s Baidu to Focus on Local and LBS, Says it Has 77 Million Online Maps...
The Baidu Shenbian app for local listings - now under Baidu's newly spun-off LBS division. At an event in Beijing this morning, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China’s biggest search engine, revealed that it has...
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Gome VP Denies Rumors the Electronics Retailer Will Sell its Coo8 Site
Chinese electronics retailer Gome (HKG:0493) has something of an odd e-commerce strategy, with its online interests represented both by its own Gome.com.cn site and its ownership of the Amazon-esque...
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Jungle Ventures Unveils New Asia-Focused Fund, Has $10 Million in its Pockets
The TechVenture 2012 conference is going on in Singapore right now, where e27 heard that Jungle Ventures is setting up a US$10 million “pan-Asian super angel fund.” The capital comes from a number of...
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Kotagames’ Felix Ramli Shares his Recipe for Great Feature Phone Games
During the Startup Asia Bandung Hackathon, Felix Ramli, the director of feature phone game developer Kotagames and also the founder of Indonesian video game developer training center GameLevelOne.com,...
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Thailand’s Ookbee and Indonesia’s SCOOP Team Up to Conquer Southeast Asia
Thailand’s and Indonesia’s e-publishing platforms Ookbee and SCOOP have agreed to a partnership today in Singapore. Natavudh, the CEO of Ookbee, hopes that this partnership will accelerate both...
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KDDI Unveils New Winter Mobile Lineup for Japanese Market
KDDI (TYO:9433) unveiled its winter mobile line up this afternoon in Tokyo, with a number of new Android devices stepping into the spotlight. All 10 devices (nine smartphones and a tablet) on display...
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Indonesia Game Show 2012: Here are the Winning Game Developers
Last weekend, while we had our Startup Asia Bandung Hackathon, there was another interesting event taking place in over in Jakarta: the Indonesia Game Show. The event showcased numerous local games...
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Tourist in China Detained for 5 Days After Using Mobile Phone on Airplane
Don't do this in China. Chinese airlines don’t care about your phone’s “airplane mode.” Using a mobile phone, even one with airplane mode, at any point during a flight in China is illegal. One Mr. Du...
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Is Xiaomi Making a Set-Top Box Like Apple TV?
This isn't a real photo of the device. But it might look like this. Hooray for groundless speculation! The Chinese tech scene is full of rumors, but boy, this one is interesting. Sina Tech says that...
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China’s 360buy Set to Go Global, Plans to be the Next Amazon
China’s 360buy has been something of an anomaly late, as the e-commerce giant has been expressing interest in other areas like advertising platforms, e-payments, and even games. My colleague...
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Clozette Partners With Female Daily Network, Launches Clozette Daily
Ah, fashion. One of the many reasons why ladies flock to the internet to browse, comment, and sometimes buy. The entire experience can be fulfilled on Clozette Daily, a new joint venture between...
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Another Suning E-Commerce Acquisition Rumored to be a Done Deal
Chinese electronics retailer Suning (SHE:002024), which is currently expanding its e-commerce offerings very aggressively, is rumored to be in the final stages of acquiring yet another struggling...
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Startup ‘Japan Healthcare Info’ Helps Keep Expats and Travelers Healthy
It’s no secret we love startups that solve an actual problem. And anyone who has lived in a foreign country where a different language is spoken knows that, sometimes, healthcare can be a problem....
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360Buy Hit by Partial Boycott from One Courier Company in China
(Original, pre-meme image: nipic.com user 'lixiaofang520') The ambitions of 360Buy, China’s second-largest B2C e-commerce site, to get into the logistics business seem to have back-fired somewhat. The...
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New Voice Changer App Lets You Get Silly or Spooky With Buddies on WeChat
If you’re one of WeChat’s many users and you think your friends would like to hear you making silly voices when you message them, then the WeChat Voice app is just what you need. WeChat Voice is made...
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6 Great Ideas from Open Network Lab’s Demo Day in Tokyo
Open Network Lab is a Tokyo-based incubator backed by Joi Ito (the director for MIT’s Media Lab) and two Japanese internet juggernauts, Digital Garage and NetPrice.com. They have just concluded the...
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Rumor: China’s Taobao Shopping Site Set for Major Facelift This Month
China’s biggest e-commerce site, the eBay-esque Taobao, is rumored to soon get the biggest facelift in its lifetime, drastically tidying up the clutter on the pages of its millions of amateur...
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