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LinkedIn Supports Recruitment For India’s Top Business College Students
It’s interesting when schools opt for technology to find better solutions. As reported by The Times of India, the IIM-A has partnered with LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) to help connect its students to...
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Vancl CEO Chen Nian Talks About the Cancelled IPO, Future IPO Plans
The last time we heard about Chinese clothing ecommerce brand Vancl in connection with an IPO, it was because the company’s planned US IPO was falling apart. That got ugly, but a year later, is the...
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A Web Service You Never Knew You Needed: Online Dentist Appointment Booking
“This is more or less what you think it is,” wrote the guys from Toumingti about I Want to See a Dentist, a Shenzhen-based startup that advertises itself as “a dental appointment booking website.”...
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Youku Tudou Strengthens Premium Video Platform with Sony Pictures Television...
Youku HQ in Beijing Chinese online streaming video company Youku Tudou (NYSE:YOKU) has just announced an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to bring over 300 titles to its paid Youku Premium...
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Striata Lets Banks and Customers Go Paperless
Here’s the first startup that caught my attention at Finovate Asia 2012. Striata from New York allows banks to cut costs by helping them to adopt email billing, saving paper and mailing costs in the...
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Google Maps App is Lost in China, Loses Half Market Share in Q3 [CHART]
It seems clear in which direction Google Maps is heading in China. Down. New stats for Q3 2012 for mobile maps app market share in the country show Google Maps getting even more lost amidst...
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Freemium App Revenues on the Rise in Asia and Around the World
App Annie has recently released some figures about the growth of Android and iOS in global markets, including Asia. The company points out that freemium apps on iOS have seen revenue increase by a...
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Qihoo Invests in Flipboard-Like App Maker, Wants You to Read More
Chinese software maker – and disruptive new search engine competitor – Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) has invested in VIVAme, which makes a magazine subscriptions app and a Flipboard-style reader (pictured...
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Qihoo’s New Search Engine Surges to 10% Share in China, Google Drops to 4th...
Chinese traffic stats company CNZZ has calculated the impact of Qihoo’s (NYSE:QIHU) controversial new search engine in the China market, and reckons that it has grabbed the second spot with nearly 10...
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DeNA’s Revenue Hits $627 million in 2nd Fiscal Quarter, Boosts International...
Update: DeNA’s earnings slides in English embedded below Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) has reported a whopping $627 million in revenue in its second fiscal quarter, 45 percent higher...
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Eight Asian Winners on WSA Mobile Content
The World Summit Award (WSA) Mobile Content has found its 40 winners across the eight competing categories. Here are the eight Asian apps that walked away with prizes: iButterfly from China (m-Business...
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DroidJuice Maps and Shares Your Android Battery Life Stats
We’ve seen India’s Ideophone make some useful and interesting stuff before, and now the startup has a fun new way for you to keep track of the battery life in your Android phone – or on other people’s...
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Japan’s Rakuten Acquires Alpha Direct Services with Aim of Improving Logistics
ADS, Beauvais site Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten (JSD:4755) announced (pdf) today that it has acquired French logistics company Alpha Direct Services for an undisclosed sum. ADS has a number of...
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Blackberry Under Attack As Samsung and Telkomsel Launch New BBM-Like Deals...
Today, Indonesia’s biggest telco Telkomsel, together with Samsung Indonesia, launched a BBM-like package deal for popular third-party chat apps called ‘Chat and Share’. The package deal would make...
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Slightly Suspicious: Worldwide Hack Attacks Decrease Dramatically During...
A draft of an annual report sent to US Congress calls China “the most threatening actor in cyberspace” that aims cyber attacks at many corporate and military “specialized targets.” To highlight the...
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Xiaomi Launches New Theme Store, Begins Charging for Third-Party Themes
You’re out of MiBi, says the system when a user attempts to download a paid theme in the new theme store, before prompting them to purchase the virtual currency. Xiaomi’s MIUI platform has been totally...
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Inside the Mind of Angel Investor Xu Xiaoping
Chinese startups should all have heard of Xu Xiaoping; the New Oriental co-founder is one of China’s highest-profile angel investors. But his mindset and his investment strategy are also part of what...
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China’s Progress Against Piracy
Some good points from Stan Abrams over on China Hearsay about China’s battle against piracy: We’ve already seen significant action on the video side, and it does seem that when industry and large...
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Chinese Internet Connections Unreliable in Run-Up to Party Congress
Beijing takes the 18th Party Congress (the once-a-decade leadership transition) pretty seriously. And since this year it’s worried about everything from ping pong balls to boats, it’s probably no...
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Japanese App ‘Watching Cute Girl’ Makes Sure You’re Never Alone
Here’s an app from Japan that is totally ridiculous, and probably not worth paying for — but I can’t help but share it anyway. Ningen Inc’s ‘Watching Cute Girl’ iOS app has a number of different and...
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