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Here’s Where Startup Asia Is Gonna Be Held [PICS]
32 days ago, we announced our conference, Startup Asia Singapore. It was supposed to be held at Singapore Expo. Unfortunately, we have to pull away from that place because it’s just too effing...
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Japan’s KDDI to Open Data Center, Aims to Help Post-Quake Recovery
Japanese mobile carrier KDDI (TYO:9433) has announced that it will establish a data center in Sendai, one of the areas hit the hardest by the earthquake and tsunami this past March. The center will be...
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My Favorite Posts from This Year
This isn't really related to the post at all, but it got your attention, didn't it? 2011 has been an interesting year. And, although I didn’t join the Penn Olson team until this summer, I’ve had plenty...
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Hello Boy Scouts: Foursquare Introduces Lion City Badge For Singapore
A merlion or a seahorse? Finally, right? Singaporeans love Foursquare so much that the location-based network now has a dedicated badge for them. It’s simple to get the badge. Just check in to five of...
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Renren Users: Change Your Passwords!
Net rumors today continue to suggest that the massive hacks we reported on yesterday may also have affected social networking sites like Renren (NYSE:RENN). Renren hasn’t confirmed that it was hacked,...
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Softbank Pulls the Plug on Myspace Joint Venture in Japan
After originally partnering with News Corp to launch Myspace Japan back in 2006, Softbank is now giving up on that joint venture says Reuters, quoting a Nikkei report. While Myspace was once one of...
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DST Founder Yuri Milner Invests in Xiaomi
Yuri Milner, image via Great Wall Club We already knew Xiaomi had scored $90 million RMB in new financing — they announced that at their press conference with China Unicom on Tuesday — but Lei Jun has...
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Singapore’s Social, Smartphone-Luvvin’ Citizens [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Singapore has always punched above its size in the world’s economy, and so it’s no...
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Happy Holidays! Now Here’s What We Want…
With the holidays upon us, many of us probably have our eyes set on some new high-tech purchase, and the writers here at PO are no exception. Here is a quick run down from a just few of our team...
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6 Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week
As usual, we have quite a few Asian tech startups on our radar this week, from China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Laos. For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with these startups,...
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Japan’s Sumally Interviewed by Wired Japan [TRANSLATION]
This article about Sumally was written for WIRED Japan, and I had the opportunity to translate it to English. Sumally has been covered before on PO, so consider this an update of sorts to the previous...
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8 of My Favourite Posts from 2011
Well, that happened. As 2011 draws to a close, it’s a good time to look back at some of my own personal highlights since I started writing for PO in April, and then came on full-time in July. It has...
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Rumor: iPhone 4S to Launch January 6 in China
I had promised myself I wasn’t going to write about any more iPhone 4S rumors, but this one is so specific it seems like there’s a decent chance it’s true. Chinese tech sites today are reporting that...
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Japan’s ARappli Aims to Bring Augmented Reality to Everyone
Augmented reality (AR) and quick response codes (QR) are pretty neat technologies. But they aren’t often used because it is tough to execute a seamless AR campaign/experience, at least from the...
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Tianya Hacked, 4 Million Passwords Published
The series of mega-hacks is continuing in China, with gigantic BBS community Tianya the latest in a series of high-profile hacking cases that has affected numerous internet services and revealed the...
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
One day later than usual, owing to a bit of Christmas downtime, here’s our round-up of the most significant developments on the Chinese web and tech scene last week: 1. Dell Unveils First Ever...
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DeNA Establishes Gaming Partnership with Chinese SNS Kaixin001
The folks over at Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) just made their holidays a little bit happier by announcing a partnership with Chinese social network Kaixin001. In an effort to boost...
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Startup Anideo Launches Its First Game, Huntville [PICS]
Singapore-based app dev startup Anideo pushed out quite a lot of apps this year. But none of them are games. So when co-founder Andrew Solimine told me that they had just released a new game, I had to...
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Paging All Entrepreneurs Interested in Startup Asia
Our growing list of participants for Startup Asia Singapore has us very excited. I’m not too sure how our small team has managed to put this together, but we certainly have worked damn hard to create...
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Our 5 Favorite Data Visualizations for Asia in 2011
We digested quite a bit of data over the past 12 months here on PO. While we’re far from pro statisticians, we did our best to present trusted data for our readers, in a manner that emphasized clarity...
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