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LakuBgt Kicks Off Its 1 Million Netpreneur Roadshow Starting with Jogja
Indonesian e-commerce platform LakuBgt.com has just finished its first workshop for its roadshow series called One Million Netpreneur in Jogjakarta on Saturday. The one-day event targets...
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Luxola Founder Talks About Her Journey As An Entrepreneur [INTERVIEW]
To all the ladies out there who are interested in cosmetics and skincare products, you need to know about Luxola, a Singapore-based cosmetics e-commerce startup. Back in August we reported that it had...
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Recipe for Domination? Korea’s Kakao Mixes Messaging and Gaming, Goes Global
KARA’s Gyuri plays Anipang, photo AllKpop.com Kakao Corporation’s messaging app KakaoTalk has been at the fore of a wave of Asian chat apps burning up handsets across the region. This past summer it...
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App-solutely Fabulous: 360Buy Launches an Android App Store
Chinese e-commerce site 360Buy seems to be cranking out new features on a daily basis. Yesterday, an e-bookstore; today an app store. 360Buy’s newly-launched apps market offers Android applications...
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Calling Female Entrepreneurs Wannabes: Join Startup Weekend Singapore, Female...
Startup Weekend Singapore is back, but this time with a feminine touch. The event is inviting all aspiring female entrepreneurs (guys are cordially invited too) to bring their ideas to the table, and...
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Monetizing a Blog is Hard, No Matter Where You Are
Akky Akimoto has an interesting article over on The Japan Times [1] website in which he gives an overview of the phenomenon of paid e-mail newsletters in Japan. Beginning in the late 90s, he notes that...
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First Singapore-Made PS3 Game ‘Page Chronica’ Hits Stores Today
This is a big day for Singaporean game developers Red Hare Studios as the team will release a Playstation 3 game called Page Chronica today. It was scheduled to hit the stores on November 1st, but due...
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Baidu Raises $1.5 Billion in Bonds Issue, Now Has a Fistful of Dollars for...
China’s top search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), has raised $1.5 billion in its first-ever bonds issue. The dollar bonds are aimed at overseas investors, and will help the Chinese company acquire US...
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Free in the App Store Today: Ponos’s Mr. Ninja for iPhone
Here’s a fun iPhone game from the folks over at Japan-based Ponos Games which is today discounted from it’s regular price $0.99, available for free on the iOS app store. Mr. Ninja is a simple game...
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Roam7 Tracks Your Friends’ Travels via Facebook
Although I can rarely afford to actually do it, I enjoy traveling. So, like many others, sometimes I like to “travel” vicariously by flipping through the travel albums of my Facebook friends to see...
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Survey: Adoption of Enterprise Social Tools in Asia Pacific [INFOGRAPHIC]
In a recent survey conducted by research firm IDC and sponsored by Microsoft, it is seen that 52 percent of organisations in the Asia Pacific region have in place an enterprise social network....
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Mogujie Looks Beyond Pinterest Roots, Launches Daily Deals Channels
Mogujie (left) and Mogujia show off their daily deals. Entering China’s ferocious daily deals sector – where thouands of sites go out of business every year – seems about as attractive as putting one’s...
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Blackberry Wins Indonesian Customer Satisfaction Award
RIM just announced today via Kompas that its Blackberry handset has won the Indonesian Customer Satisfaction Award (ICSA) this year. With the unstable performances of its flagship service Blackberry...
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New iPod Touch Coming to Indonesia This Christmas
Detik reports that the fifth generation iPod Touch will be available in Indonesia next month. There is still no news about the price, though it is expected to be more expensive here when compared to...
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Email Back-up Startup Dropmyemail Goes Enterprise
Image credit: Dropmyemail Singapore-based email back-up solution startup Dropmyemail is now offering its service to enterprises. In today’s announcement, Dropmyemail quoted figures from Radicati Group...
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Cookpad Invests in Japanese Social Finance Service ‘Zaim’
Last year we told you about Japanese developer Takako Kansai, who created a wonderful personal finance application called Zaim. The service, which is now also available for Android as well as iOS, is...
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BillPin Co-Founder: Many Female Entrepreneurs Are Making an Impact [VIDEO]
In our last post featuring female entrepreneurs, we had Quality Time Lab co-founder, Meri Rosich, sharing her startup experience. In this post, we’re honored to have our own Singaporean female startup...
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Game On! China’s YY Ready to Hit NASDAQ, Will Debut at $10.50 to Raise $82...
Ending an eight-month drought of Chinese IPOs, the gaming community YY (NASDAQ:YY) is about to hit the tickers at the start of trading in New York. YY’s CEO, ‘David’ Li Xueling, will have the honor of...
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Line’s iOS Games Dominate Japanese App Store
Korea’s Kakao recently claimed that its the first company to successfully merge a messaging service and social games. NHN Japan might take exception to that claim, as its game platform launched just...
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Comparing Startup Ecosystems Around the World
Startup Genome and Telefónica Digital have released their Startup Ecosystem Report 2012 which gives an overview of the world’s biggest and best startup ecosystems. As you might expect, Silicon Valley...
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