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RealLifeConnect Launches its Check-In Stations in China, Adds Sina Weibo Support
Austrian startup RealLifeConnect is adding support for China’s Sina Weibo to its social media check-in stations. To back that up, RealLifeConnect is launching in China, pushing its RFID/NFC-equipped...
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Japan’s GREE Ventures Looks Abroad for the Next Big Thing
We’ve written a lot about Japanese mobile social gaming company GREE (TYO:3632) quite recently, and it has been especially busy of late with with its $173.8 million purchase of Japanese game publisher...
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SingTel Innov8 Leads Series A Funding into Chinese Business Networking App
“Guanxi” is the Chinese word for a relationship – and also the broader concept of the benefits of knowing someone, particularly when doing business. That explains the name of the business networking...
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Apple’s App Store Now Supports Indonesian and Indian Currency
Apple has announced that it’s adding support for eight additional local currencies to its App Store, which includes Indonesia’s rupiah and India’s rupee. The common app price of $0.99 has now been...
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Docomo Announces $125 Million Investment Fund and Incubation Program
Japan’s NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) has announced today that it will be setting up an innovation fund for new smartphone and tablet businesses. The fund will amount to 10 billion yen (of about $125 million)...
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iCard English: Daily Micro Lessons to Perfect Your Spoken English
Within a month of its official launch, iCard English has garnered a total of 70,000 users. As its name suggests, this iPhone app is designed to aid Chinese users in the English learning process. Prior...
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Stop a Stolen Car Via SMS: Indonesian Students Create Brilliant Anti-Theft...
Modem Microcontroller SMS Sender is an interesting product created to fight car theft. It basically allows users to control a car’s engine using only an SMS. It is developed by high school-age...
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Revenue at HTC Keeps on Slipping [Chart]
Things aren’t looking good for Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC (TPE:2498). If you look at the chart from HTC’s Q3 results deck (see right), you can see how revenue and profit just kept sliding....
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Groupon China’s New Owner Nets $40 Million in Funding for Daily Deals Expansion
You might recall that in June of this year, Groupon China was merged with larger daily deals rival FTuan into a company called GroupNet. And now GroupNet’s CEO, Lin Ning, has revealed that it has...
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Qihoo’s Zhou Hongyi Sues Detractor, Asks MIIT to Inspect 360 Browser
It has been two weeks since Qihoo 360 CEO Zhou Hongyi has been in the headlines, and apparently that’s too long. The bombastic Zhou has now announced that in response to Fang Zhouzi’s criticism, he has...
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Ship Dates Announced for Xiaomi Mi2: First Units to Ship Oct 30
If you’re one of the Xiaomi fans who preordered Xiaomi’s new Mi2 Android handset, you may not have to keep waiting too much longer. According to the company’s website, the first 50,000 units will ship...
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
You know what this column needs? More poetry. How about one of Du Fu’s “Autumn Meditations”? Forgive me, I can’t find a definitive answer for whose translation this is, but I think you’ll enjoy it...
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7 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Another week, another fun batch of startups scouted by our TechInAsia team. Here are some of the more notable young companies we looked at this week. Entrepreneurs, remember that you can submit your...
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Beatrobo Rolls Out New Redesign of its Social Music Service
A ‘hangout’ function lets you browse and discover other people’s music via their robots. Back in April we told you about social music site Beatrobo, which at the time had received $600,000 in funding,...
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A YouTube Tour of Japanese Culture
From Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a series of YouTube videos entitled “Japan: Fascinating Diversity” which aims to ‘rediscover the country and introduce it to the world.’ The five videos, each...
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New Shenzhen Apple Store Set to Open November 3rd
Apple’s new store in Shenzhen, set to open November 3rd. (Image: CiPhone,fr) Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has set an official opening date for its seventh store in mainland China – and its first in the south of...
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Singapore’s Sprooki Raises $483,000, Looks to Bring Location-Based Deals to...
Singapore-based Sprooki is a location-based mobile commerce service that lets retail shops send targeted messages and promotions to potential customers who are passing by via their smartphones. The...
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Gaming Giant Netease Decides It Needs to Be Lucky in Love
The green-eyed monster of jealousy is never an attractive thing – especially in relationships. But that’s what seems to have motivated China’s Netease (NASDAQ:NTES), which is better known for its...
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Microsoft Says No Boxed Windows 8 for China (and So Pirates Will Fill the Gap)
This is more than a few days old, but here’s a PSA from PC World mixed with a word of warning from us: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has confirmed that there’ll be no boxed versions of Windows 8 for sale in...
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Tokyo’s Human Camera Reminds Us to Connect in the Real World
Tokyo-based new media artist Eric Siu has created a really wonderful idea that blends technology and performance art in way that is sure to turn heads — even in Japan where crazy technologies have...
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