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UCWeb Passes 100 Million Android Users
Big news today from the folks at UCWeb, the makers of the popular UC Browser, who tell us that it has now surpassed the lofty milestone of 100 million Android users as of November. The company claims...
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Lazada Receives More Investment, This Time $40 Million from Kinnevik
Rocket Internet’s e-commerce site Lazada has received more investment today, this time from Swedish investment firm Kinnevik for a sum of $40 million. Lazada, which was just launched in March this...
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Indonesia’s Indigo Fellowship 2012 Highlights Some Great Tech Ideas
The winners of Telkom Group’s Indigo Fellowship 2012 have been awarded in four categories. The competition was created to help facilitate the growing digital creative industry in Indonesia, and channel...
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Skype China Users Down 20% Over Past 2 Years, No MSN Merger Just Yet
Last week, we learned that Microsoft may roll MSN/Windows Live Messenger into Skype’s services (which Microsoft owns). But it turns out that wherever else the company may be doing that, it won’t be...
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Kaifu Lee’s Innovation Works Invests in LeTV Subsidiary, Interested in ‘Super...
Readers with a sharp memory may be reading that headline and thinking, “Wait, didn’t we already know that?” and the answer is that yes, we did. Sort of. As we previously reported, Kaifu Lee announced...
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Vromtu Offers Jakarta-Bandung Shuttle Bus Information Service for Windows...
Unlike most app developers these days, who prioritize building apps on iOS or Android, Vromtu chose to build its app on Windows Phone (WP). The app offers information on shuttle bus services in...
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Find your Way Faster in Singapore with New Google Maps Navigation
Drivers in Singapore will probably rejoice at this news. Google Singapore has announced that Google Maps Navigation (Beta) will now be available for smartphones which are running on Android systems 2.2...
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Australian Startups 121cast and Venuemob Receive Funding, Led By SingTel Innov8
Subsequent to July’s announcement of the Optus Innov8 Winter 2012 seed program, two startups in that program, 121cast and Venuemob will receive funding. The investments are led by SingTel Innov8, where...
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Pair of Mobage Games Rule Android Top Grossing Charts
DeNA (TYO:2432) points out today that its mobile RPG Blood Brothers reached the top of the Google Play top grossing app charts in the US over the weekend. The fantasy RPG has been doing well for the...
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Confirmed: China’s 360Buy Pulls in $400 Million in Funding, But Valued at 25%...
[UPDATED: This was all confirmed by the company later in the day. The story's text has been amended to reflect this just in the first and final paragraphs]. Earlier this year we suggested that 360Buy,...
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Xiaomi Confirms Acquisition of Duokan, Startup Maker of Kindle and Apple TV Apps
Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi has today confirmed its acquisition of Duokan, a startup maker of e-reader and Apple TV apps. The financial details have not been revealed, but the wholesale buy-up will see...
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Meizu Preps MX2 Launch, Makes a Date for November 27
Chinese phone-maker Meizu has just sent out invitations for the reveal of its newest phone, the MX2. It’ll replace the dual-core MX, and it might even make the more recent MX 4-Core obsolete, even...
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Rakuten Belanja Online Reveals Newest Stats, 500% Growth in Merchants
The Jakarta Post reports that Rakuten Belanja Online (RBO, meaning “Rakuten Online Shopping”) has 400 merchants with 300,000 products offered online, representing 500 percent growth in the past 18...
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GREE Advertising Ties Up With Korea’s AppDisco on Mobile Ads
GREE Advertising CEO Tatsuhei Asanuma, AppDisco CFO BumRyung Yoo We haven’t heard too much about GREE Advertising, the ad subsidiary of the Japanese gaming giant which was launched back in April. But...
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Check out Video from Voice Driver Cup in Japan
Last week we previewed the Voice Driver Cup, a collaborative effort between a number of Japanese companies (including Nissan) to put off a race where toy cars are propelled by the participant’s voice....
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Indonesia’s MNC Group to Build Search Engine in 2013; Tencent or Baidu as...
Kompas cites Hary Tanoesoedibjo, the CEO of Indonesian media company MNC Group, as saying yesterday that the company is going to start building a search engine in 2013. Hary did not explain anything...
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Kai-Fu Lee: 500 Million Smartphones in China by End of 2013
The former director of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee, has put up a nice post over on LinkedIn with a handful of key stats that show how China’s smartphone market is growing at an astonishing pace. He points...
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CMGE and Disney Partner Up to Bring Temple Run and Where’s My Water to...
China Mobile Games and Entertainment Group (NASDAQ:CMGE) has announced today that the company has signed an agreement with Walt Disney’s (NYSE:DIS) China branch. The partnership will see CMGE bringing...
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Davinci Note iPad App Lets You Publish Quick, Beautiful Notes
Writing on an iPad can be very tricky, given the smaller screen size. If I must write on an iPad, I usually resort to the wonderful Writing Kit app along with some Text Expander Touch / Markdown-fu as...
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10 Lessons Learned from the Decade-long Journey at FusionCharts
Pallav Nadhani is the co-founder and CEO of FusionCharts, who you may recall from a previous feature on this site. The company recently completed a decade of being in business and came out with a book...
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