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HootSuite Talks China Plans: Simplified Character Support, Chinese Branding...
Social media in China is huge. So huge that nobody wants to ignore it. And while lots of people think “Twitter” when they hear HootSuite, the folks at HootSuite are taking China seriously. We already...
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GREE Acquires Japanese Social Game Publisher Pokelabo for $173.8 Million
Mobile gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) has announced its acquisition of Japanese game publisher Pokelabo (short for ‘Pocket Laboratory’) for 13.8 billion yen, or about $173.8 million. Pokelabo was...
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Coiney: A Smartphone-based, Credit Card Payment Alternative for Japan
Japan’s first-ever smarphone-based credit card processing service Coiney has just launched today. Instead of conventional credit authorisation terminals (CAT), the company provides merchants with a...
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Autonavi Maps Hit Windows 8 As Chinese Apps Jump Aboard Microsoft’s New OS
Autonavi’s “AMAP” app for Windows 8 inaction (Click to enlarge) Microsoft’s most radical new OS, Windows 8, is set to launch tomorrow, and lots of Chinese web companies are ready with apps that make...
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China’s Online Retailers Tap Convenience Stores for Package Pick-Ups
Although Chinese consumers are hot for the nation’s e-commerce sites – with one in seven urbanites shopping online each month – it can be a pain actually picking up your parcels. When the courier...
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SI Camp Asia: Six Great Ideas to Solve Social Problems
A little while back we previewed SI Camp Asia, a social innovations event that is to be held in Kuala Lumpur on November 9th and 10th [1]. At the time, the organizers were calling for ideas of how...
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Baidu Expects Ad Revenue to Rise to $3.18 Billion by End of 2012
Despite a still fragile economy, China’s top search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) believes it’ll see a strong rise in ad revenues in 2012. Baidu’s VP, Wang Zhan, said publicly this week that he expects in...
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Shit Happens. Let’s Clean it up
It’s not easy to be an entrepreneur. And no one can portray the level of difficulty in words either. It’s a huge mountain that you climb. When things are rosy, people are happy. The real test is when...
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YouTube to Broadcast the Hajj Ritual Live from Mecca
The Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha will commence tomorrow. And if you’d like to watch the hajj ritual in Mecca, you can do so again this year through YouTube’s live streaming channel here. The streaming...
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Tibiji Takes Password-Protected Notes and Tracks Your Finances
Tibiji is a brand-new service from Beijing-based startup Feike, consisting of an online personal organiser. We have seen several such services before, but most just do notes, such as Evernote’s...
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Japan’s Line App Passes 70M Users, Translates its Success Overseas
Over 70 million users since it first launched in June of 2011. That’s a pretty impressive milestone for Japan’s chat/voice application Line after such a short time. What’s even more impressive is that...
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Chinese Stores Start Selling Microsoft Surface RT Early, Pull in Queues of...
All photos from @chassit in Beijing. Enthusiast queues of gadget buyers in Beijing are greeting the launch of Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet. Scheduled for launch as the clock turns midnight and heralds...
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Japanese Photographer’s iPhone Camera App is a Huge Hit Right After Launch
Recruit Media Lab, a research arm of Japan’s largest human resources and classified ad company, released an iPhone camera app with a variety of filter effects last week. It’s called Cameran, and it...
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Urban Qurban App Encourages You to Donate a Goat on Eid Al-Adha
Here’s an interesting Android app created by three Indonesian development companies to make tomorrow’s Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha a more blissful day of giving and sharing. The app is called Urban...
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Mikitani: “They were wrong about Rakuten, about e-commerce”
I love it when big name entrepreneurs have blogs. There’s always interesting tips and stories to follow. This time it comes from Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO and founder of Rakuten (pictured right),...
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Japanese Clothes Retailer Uniqlo Commences E-Commerce in the U.S.
Uniqlo put this cat to work in promoting its SF store earlier in October Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has just made a significant step towards reaching more customers in the U.S. While the company...
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Han Han’s Online Magazine One Gets an iPhone App
Following the demise of his excellent but very short-lived literary magazine Party, China’s favorite blogger Han Han launched an online magazine with Tencent using the same creative team back in June...
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New York Times Joins Bloomberg in Getting Blocked in China Over Leadership...
Many in China are reporting that the New York Times website is blocked today – both the English and the Chinese version. The lead story on the NYT right now (in both languages, see here and here) is an...
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Tim Cook: China Accounts for 15% of Apple’s Sales, Will Get iPhone 5 in December
In Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) fourth quarter earnings call, CEO Tim Cook pointed out that China is still an “extremely exciting market,” highlighting that the Greater China region [1] accounted for 15...
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Hands-On with Microsoft Windows 8, Now Available in Asia Pacific [VIDEO]
There has been much buzz around Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 8. Yesterday we reported that Chinese stores started selling the Microsoft Surface RT early. Today, both Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro...
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