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How Do Women Shop Differently Online? Insights from Female Daily
From the left – Affi Assegaf, Novita Imelda, and Hanifa Ambadar Women are as avid online shoppers compared to its male compatriots, but is it any different in Indonesia’s male-dominated tech industry?...
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Amazon Announces Cloud Drive for Japan, Tip-Toes Around Topic of Music
Now that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has finally brought its Kindle Line to Japan, it is following up with Amazon Cloud Drive as a digital storage solution for customers in the region. The service provides...
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8 Facts About Sina Weibo Users That All Marketers Should Know
Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) has just released an interesting report filled with facts and stats about users of its Sina Weibo service, which passed 400 million registered users earlier today. Combing through...
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Lazada Indonesia’s Former Managing Director Joins SITTI
Susie Sugden, the new managing director of SITTI Three days ago, Indonesian online contextual advertising network SITTI (short for Sistem Iklan Teknologi Teks Indonesia, which means Indonesian Text...
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Boxyroom: A Safer Option for Long-Term Property Rentals
When talking about renting overseas apartments, services such as Airbnb, TravelMob and 9Flats might be the first to pop into your minds. But those sites are usually for short-term vacation stays. For...
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Groupon Opens Doors on Another Retail Store, This Time in Hong Kong
The doyen of daily deals, Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN), opened a new brick-and-mortar store in Hong Kong earlier today. It comes just over four months after Groupon opened its first-ever such “concept store”...
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Evernote and Moleskin Launch Smart Notebook in Singapore, Help Make Your...
When you hear the word notebook these days, a lot of people think laptop. And that probably goes doubly when a tech company like Evernote is involved. But Evernote’s new smart notebook, created...
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Why You Should Consider Building Apps for China’s Ethnic Minorities
As the Chinese internet and mobile markets grow, a lot of people are looking to localize their products in China. In general, this might mean setting up a team in Beijing to begin adapting the app or...
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Indonesian Themed Adventure Game Wanara is Out on Android
Indonesian digital art studio Mechanimotion Entertainment and game developer Elven Games released the first episode of an Indonesian folklore-themed gaming app for Android called The Adventure of...
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Tiket2 Passes 1 Million Monthly Visits; Talks About Its Odd Brand Name...
Indonesian travel ticket booking platform Tiket2.com has reached a milestone recently by surpassing one million monthly visits. We talked with Laurrien Maylinda, the marketing director of Tiket2,...
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TreeCrunch Helps Companies Make Sense of Data from Social Media and More
Treecrunch co-founders Boris Boege, Patrick Kosiol and Zane Moi (L to R) There’s an awful lot of interesting data out there on the internet. More often than not these days, the issue isn’t whether or...
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With AirBnB Not on the Ground in Japan, Homerent Enjoys Home Field Advantage
AirBnB may be big worldwide, but not quite so much in Japan. That’s according to Daniel Saito, co-founder of Homerent. When asked about Homerent being in a competitive space that’s quickly being...
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Thanksgiving is coming (for our American readers). And while for the rest of you, next Thursday is just going to be a Thursday, I hope we all can remember to feel thankful for interesting tech news in...
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Tech in Asia: News Of The Week [November 11-17, 2012]
A lot of interesting stuff happened this week. Now, yes, we do say that every week, but sometimes, we’re lying. Some weeks just aren’t that interesting! Luckily, though, this wasn’t one of those...
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11 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Another week has gone by and here’s a compilation of the startups that Tech in Asia has covered. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us at editors@techinasia.com. Alternatively, you...
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Alibaba to Invest in Sina Weibo?
The Global Times reports that Alibaba Group will invest in Sina Weibo, buying between 15 and 20 percent in China’s most popular microblog. The report cites a former Alibaba staff member, Zhou Jinzeng,...
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DeNA’s Chat App ‘Comm’ Doing Well Thanks to TV Ad Spot
Yuriko Yoshitaka We previously told you about DeNA’s new voice and chat application, Comm, which launched about a month ago. The iOS app debuted well at number one on the free app charts, and while it...
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Suning Opens E-Bookstore, Promises 250,000+ E-Book Titles by Next Year
Chinese consumers already have plenty of options when it comes to buying e-books, and now there’s yet another e-bookstore to choose from. The brick-and-mortar electronics retailer Suning (SHE:002024)...
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Baidu Offers Extra Cloud Storage on Some New Qualcomm-Powered Smartphones
The Huawei G330D, running Android 4.0 and using Baidu search. (Image: cnmo.com) China’s biggest search engine has buddied up with chip-maker Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) to offer extra free cloud storage to...
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RIM Offers Free Calling Over WiFi, But is it Good Enough?
Last week, RIM launched the beta version of its BBM 7 update which offers free calling over a WiFi connection. This latest update can be used by handsets running Blackberry OS 6 or higher....
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