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Military Personnel Beware: Your Violent Conduct Might Be on YouTube
Last Tuesday, an Indonesian military Air Force jet crashed at a housing complex in Riau. Ironically, the injuries from that incident weren’t caused by the crashed plane, but by violent conduct from...
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360Buy Launches Global E-Commerce Site, But Only Ships From China
The new 360Buy global frontpage. China’s second-largest e-commerce site, 360Buy, has opened up an English-language site that will ship items to 35 countries worldwide. The site has just gone live...
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China’s Digital Tomorrow
Marc has been exploring emerging markets and their adoption of e-commerce, social, and mobile internet technology in the past decade. He is currently based in Shanghai. Disclosure: Marc is a senior...
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Netease Expanding into the Pork Business…Wait, What?
We’ve seen Chinese internet companies expand in all kinds of weird directions recently (see: 360Buy), but this one is definitely the weirdest. Netease, a senior marketing manager has confirmed, is...
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Report: White House Investigation Says Huawei Not Spying, But Still...
According to an interesting Reuters report, a White House-ordered investigation into Huawei that lasted 18 months has turned up no evidence that the company is actively spying. According to Reuters’...
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GREE Releases Monster Quest, New iOS Game from Funzio Team
GREE’s (TYO:3632) US studio has just announced a new title, as Monster Quest has just dropped for iPhone and iPad. The game is free to play, and lets players collect, train, and fuse monsters in order...
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Microsoft Launches Online Store in China, Ready to Ship Surface Tablets
China is not short of online shopping options – and now there’s one more, with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) today unveiling an official online store for Chinese fans of Windows products. The Microsoft...
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India Realizing its Potential as Mega Mobile Market, 4th in Android Downloads...
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced today that Android developers in India can now sell paid applications, in-app items, and subscriptions on the Google Play platform. Developers can collect payments...
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Indonesian Lifestyle Portal Updaterus.com Talks About its Transformational...
Seven months ago we talked about Updaterus.com after the rather unique news portal launched. Now the site has pivoted, ditching the format of news mixed with beautiful women, evolving into a mens’...
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Startup Asia Bandung Hackathon in an Infographic
We can’t thank everyone enough for your support at last weekend’s Startup Asia Bandung Hackathon. We had great fun over the 24 hours that we spent with you there, and congratulations again to all the...
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Struggling Sony Slims Down, Will Close One Factory and Cut 2,000 Jobs in Japan
Japan’s long-struggling gadget-maker Sony (NYSE:SNE) has revealed restructuring plans for its Japanese operations. One lens-making plant in Minokamo will be shut, and 2,000 jobs will go in the country...
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Softbank-Owned Sprint Will Not Use Huawei Telecoms Equipment
US mobile telco Sprint (NYSE:S), which will soon be acquired by Japan’s Softbank (TSE:9984) with a massive controlling stake, has said publicly that it will not use telecoms equipment from China’s...
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Yahoo Announces it Will Close Operations in South Korea
Yahoo (NASQAQ:YHOO) has announced that its South Korean operations will be closed at the end of 2012. This will be the first Asian country that the company is leaving, but it underscored in a statement...
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Is There Innovation in Asia?
We often see successful startups coming from the West, more particularly in Silicon Valley and sometimes it raises the question of whether there is innovation in Asia. A panel of young innovators,...
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24Quan, Once China’s 5th-Biggest Daily Deals Site, Suspends Operations
The troubled Chinese daily deals site 24Quan.com has announced that it is suspending its business for a few weeks – and that it “hopes to resume” in a few weeks’ time. We’ve reported on turmoil at the...
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Blackberry Makes a Fashion Statement with Zalora Singapore
Fashionably Bold, a fashion competition held by Blackberry and fashion e-commerce Zalora Singapore, reached its climax yesterday at 72-13 Gallery, as the eight winners showed off their stylish...
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Yahoo Japan Takes 50 Percent Stake in Kakao Japan
Japanese internet and social games expert Serkan Toto points out this evening that Yahoo Japan (TYO:4689) just announced that it has picked up a 50 percent stake in Kakao Japan, previously owned in...
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Kotagames Loves Sexy Girls: Beta Launches Hisho Collection Game
A couple of days ago, Indonesian feature phone game developer Kotagames launched its newest game titled Hisho Collection Mall Empire. The beta game was originally open to just 5,000 players, but that...
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Apple iPhone’s Siri Helps Chinese Users Find Prostitutes, Pornography
It’s no secret that the English-language version of Apple’s Siri iPhone app can recognize and answer queries about where to find prostitutes. But apparently Apple is an equal-opportunity pimp, because...
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Perfect World Wins Rights to Operate DOTA 2 in China
Chinese game developer and operator Perfect World announced today that it has partnered with American game developer and operator Valve to become Valve’s exclusive China operator for DOTA 2, the...
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