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Jukebox SMS Aims to Revive the Jukebox Era with a Modern Twist
Two Swedish entrepreneurs, Peder Wahlberg and Gustav Evertsson, are hoping to bring back the Jukebox era with Jukeboxsms.com. The startup, which was launched yesterday, provides a modern jukebox...
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Reports: Google Services, VPNs Blocked in China
With something as finicky as the Great Firewall, it’s hard to ever be totally sure what’s going on, let alone why whatever’s happening is happening, but reports from net users across China are...
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Microsoft Introduces Cool Speech-to-Speech Automated Chinese Translation
Have you ever wanted to speak and hear what you said played back instantly in another language in your own voice? Now you can, according to Microsoft, which has just introduced technology purporting...
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Vancl CEO: Sales Up 30%, Vancl Approaching Profit Goals
Vancl CEO Chen Nian Clothing e-tailer Vancl has had a rough year and has only recently started to reemerge from its shell, with Vancl CEO Chen Nian finally weighing in on the IPO cancellation and the...
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How One Singaporean Offline Travel Agency Embraced the Web and Social Media
I used to work for an online travel classifieds startup in my early undergraduate days and work with a lot of travel agencies in Singapore. The nemesis of these local agencies, I was often told, is the...
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China’s E-Commerce Sales Day Tomorrow Looks Set to be Bigger Than America’s...
Wait… Is this how e-commerce works? I’ve been doing it wrong. (Photo: Getty Images) November 11th became a bizarre and jokey Single’s Day in China in the 1990s, celebrated as a sort of anti-Valentine’s...
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TradeHero: Probably One of the Best Startup Ideas in Singapore
Good startup ideas aren’t so easy to come by in Singapore. So here’s one I really like: it’s called TradeHero, a mobile app that allows users to trade virtual money based on real-world stock market...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Nov. 10, 2012]
More of our bloggers than ever before have emerged from their basements to give you their pick for the title of top news story of the week. Perhaps the biggest shocker was China’s Great Firewall...
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12 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Another week has gone by and here’s a compilation of the startups that we’ve covered. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us at editors@techinasia.com. Alternatively, you can submit...
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7 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
It was a nightmare week for Google in China, with new Q3 stats from a leading research company revealing sliding market share in a couple of key products. But even Google’s biggest search rival,...
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TMG Targets 10 Million Users By End of 2013
Big dreams, big targets: The Mobile Gamer (TMG), who boasted 3 million users when we heard from them earlier this year, is aiming to have 10 million users by the end of 2013. Co-founder Vincent Wang...
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Flixy Wins Startup Weekend Sydney
Startup Weekend Sydney was held over the weekend with more than 100 entrepreneurs participating. This is the second event in Sydney and the weekend’s theme was mobile. I attended as a mentor as I had...
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Tmall and Taobao See $3 Billion in Sales During China’s 24-Hour Online Shopfest
We recently suggested that China’s biggest e-commerce sales/discounts day could beat America’s Cyber Monday in value – and that’s precisely what happened during yesterday’s “Double Eleven” online...
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Dive Deep into India’s Mobile App Development
Shubha Pai drives app-developer acquisition strategy at InMobi. She has over nine years experience across IT and mobile in revenue management, market intelligence, change management, and marketing....
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Indonesian Flight Search Engine Traveloka Receives Funding from East Ventures
It seems that 2012 is definitely the year for startups venturing into the Indonesian travel industry. Today, the Indonesian flight search engine Traveloka.com, which was just launched to the public...
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Korea’s Playnery Scores $3.7 Million in Funding, Aims to Make Social Gaming 3D
Korean game development studio Playnery has been growing quickly since it opened in October of last year. Already partnered up with Zynga to distribute its forthcoming first title Mother of Myth, now...
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CUUSOO’s Founder on Product Development and Tapping Public Opinion
Building products based on user feedback — Thanks to the internet and social media, this concept of product development is no longer new. However, its execution can be far more difficult than...
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The Gutsy Entrepreneur
I love listening to stories of successful entrepreneurs. Like with a movie superhero, they are always wracked by pain and struggles, battling oppression by stronger forces. But the hero always emerges...
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Aiming for the Top in Mobile Gaming: A Talk with COLOPL’s Naruatsu Baba
Social Game Report is a website covering mobile social gaming run by Mynet Inc. It posts news and research on the market through Social Game Report and Twitter (@SocialGameRepo). The following...
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Hong Kong Artist Records Daily Life, Builds Trippy Interpretation of Memories
I recently had a chance to watch ‘Bad Trip,’ a short video from 22-year-old media artist and filmmaker Alan Kwan. The clip is a glimpse at an epic project that has been ongoing for about a year now....
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