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Danger Maps Shows You How Safe Any Address in China Really Is
China can be a dangerous place to live. Sure, there’s not much in the way of violent crime, but the very air and water may be plotting to kill you with contaminants at any moment. Moreover, it’s not...
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Ai Weiwei Interviews an Online Opinion Guide (i.e. 50 Cent Party Member) in...
Have you ever wondered how China guides public opinion online? It’s not all censorship. In this interview, Ai Weiwei speaks to a real-life member of the “50 Cent Party” who breaks down how the job...
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Taiwan to Investigate HTC Share Price Jump
Apple and HTC recently announced the end of their patent dispute. And while that should be good news for HTC, the Taiwanese company is now in a little bit of hot water over a 7 percent jump in its...
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If Chinese Companies Aren’t Looking at Search in Indonesia, They Should Be
Earlier today we reported that Indonesia’s MNC group is working on a search engine product, and that its recent partnership with Tencent leads us to speculate it might be working with a Chinese...
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Hit Japanese Game ‘Dragon Collection’ Arrives in US App Store
Dragon Collection, Tokyo Game Show 2012 Konami (NYSE:KNM) is announcing today that its popular Dragon Collection game is now available in North America for iOS on the GREE (TYO:3632) platform....
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Startup Weekend Bangkok: New Technology Ideas in Thailand
Our friends over at Coconuts Bangkok have a good overview of Startup Weekend Bangkok which took place in Thailand recently. The winners include a fun wardrobe sharing application, a social networking...
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Your 25 Minutes Start NOW: Complete Your Tasks with Pomotodo
Lately, with many task-management tools and apps readily available in the market, it is definitely a tough task to stand out as a must-have getting-things-done (GTD) app. Though some may be jam-packed...
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Japan is Best Prepared to Capitalize on Cloud Computing
The business of cloud computing is projected to generate more than 14 million jobs around the globe in the next three years, including 10 million in the Asia Pacific region [1]. So which Asian nations...
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GREE Partners With SingTel For Mobile Games Promotion and Billing in Singapore
Today, mobile gaming giant GREE announced that it has exclusively partnered up with SingTel to promote its mobile games in Singapore. Besides promoting games, the partnership will allow subscribers to...
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Escaping from Apple and Google, GREE Launches Push for Games in HTML5
The big news today from GREE, the Japan-based social gaming platform, is that it’s now accepting mobile games built in HTML5. The now-HTML5-compatible social gaming platform will roll out in beta...
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eBay Returns to China in ‘Style’, Focuses on Luxury Clothing
As anticipated, the US auctions site eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) has made a return, in a very low-key but stylish way, to the China market. On Monday it launched a joint-venture e-commerce store at...
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Xiaomi Launches Streaming Media Box for Just $60, Will Support Apple’s...
Xiaomi is today capitalizing on the success of its Android-based smartphones by launching a stream-to-TV box, also based on Android, called the Xiaomi Box. It’ll stream media from your phone, tablet,...
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Demohour Pitches Itself as China’s Kickstarter
The China Daily recently caught up with the founder of Demohour.com, which positions itself as China’s Kickstarter-esque crowdfunding site. The founder is He Feng, who tells the paper how he hopes...
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Korean Presidential Candidate Promises to Cut Ties That Bind Netizens to...
South Korea might be leading the way in delivering high-speed braodband, but a government regulation from the 1990s about online encryption has tied many web users to a relic of the web: Internet...
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iPhone 5 Has Yet to Launch in China, But Already Looks to Have a Foothold
iPhone 5 for sale on taobao.com Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 5 has yet to officially launch in China, but that hasn’t kept it from grabbing what could be as much as 0.1 percent of the smartphone market...
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Kirim Offers More Than Just 24/7 Delivery Service to Jakarta Residents
Today Indonesian logistics service Kirim.co.id held a soft launch to introduce its broad range of delivery services to help individuals and businesses, particularly in the Jakarta and its surrounding...
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SimPATI’s Dance Competition Breaks Indonesian Record
Dance Like Agnes, a video dance competition run by Indonesian telco SimPATI, has earned a place in the Indonesian Museum of Records (MURI) yesterday. The record-breaking feat is the ‘largest number of...
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Why Xiaomi is Selling a Set-Top Box
Earlier today, we finally got the details on Xiaomi’s new set-top box. But thanks to a presser sent out to media outlets, we’ve also finally got a real idea of why the company chose to develop a...
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Tencent Reports Strong Q3 Growth
Photo: jp.techcrunch.com Tencent, one of the biggest of China’s tech giants, has just released its third quarter financials. And — to no one’s surprise at all — they’re pretty good. The company took in...
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Report: Android Rises to 90% of Smartphone Market in China
(Pre-photoshopped image from balanceofculture.com) One of our favorite sources of stats, Beijing-based Analysys International, has come up with some China smartphone market share stats for 2012 Q3. The...
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