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Weixin Reinstates Real-Name User Verification, Allows Weibo Users to Auto-Verify
Tencent’s mobile messaging behemoth Weixin (known as WeChat outside China) is, like other Chinese messaging services, legally responsible to some extent for the content its users share. And although...
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Gray Market iPhones Drop Prices as China Prepares for Official iPhone 5 Release
The iPhone 5 may be old news to the rest of the world, but Apple still hasn’t officially launched the device in China. And while there’s still no official release date for the device, some China...
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YY Stock Up 8.5% After First Day of Trading
All eyes were on YY (NASDAQ:YY) today as the Chinese gaming community was officially listed and offered for trading on the NASDAQ. Over the pas few years, some Chinese tech companies have been having...
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Smartphones Continue to Eat into Compact Camera Market
Much has been said about the effects of the mobile revolution on console gaming. The past few years have not been kind to Japanese game console makers especially, as casual players get their gaming fix...
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What Should Baidu Acquire With its $1.5 Billion Global War Chest?
With $1.5 billion now in its war-chest, will China’s Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) go on a buying spree in Southeast Asia? There were a few entrepreneurs who have emailed me to ask. Some were also curious to...
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Laptop and Tablet Markets Surge in Southeast Asia, Says GFK
According to GFK Asia, the markets for laptops and tablets in Southeast Asian regions is seeing a surge in demand and growth. Its figures for the first three quarters of 2012 say that across the key...
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Burpple App Adds ‘Explore’ Feature As It Sees Users in 3,300+ Cities
It’s Thanksgiving in the US today, and so there’s going to be a lot of eating going on. That makes it a good time for the social foodie app Burpple to roll out an update to its iOS app. In the new...
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Japanese Social Giants DeNA and Mixi Agree on Common Game Developer Platform
Japanese social giants Mixi (TYO:2121) and DeNA (TYO:2432) announced today that they will form an alliance that will see their respective gaming networks share the same game development platform. This...
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Huge Consolidation of Market Share in China’s Daily Deals Sector [CHARTS]
We’ve been seeing China’s hotly-contested daily deals industry settle down a bit in the past year – and now new data for 2012 Q3 shows huge consolidation of power (ie: market share) in the whole...
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Get Answers to Your Nagging Questions with Gabble [UPDATED]
Have you ever needed some quick advice on choosing the colour of your shirt for a formal event, or where the nearest cafe with wifi is located? Gabble, a free app that provides users real-time...
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For Sex Education, Just Tap ThatApp
We recently told you about Blood Donors Network, one of the six great ideas from Social Innovation Camp Asia which tool place earlier this month in Kuala Lumpur. Blood Donors Network was awarded...
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Japanese Politician Winning Fans on Facebook
The leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, and former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has been winning a lot of attention recently by doing something that not many Japanese politicians have done —...
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China Unicom Acquires $2 Billion in Assets From Parent Company
China Unicom (NYSE:CHU; HKG:0762) will fully acquire its own fixed-line phone business from its state-controlled parent group in a move that will cost China Unicom RMB 12.2 billion (US$1.94 billion)....
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Disappointing Date: Momo English App is a Let-Down
The China-made flirtatious mobile app Momo recently launched its English and global-oriented version of the app. For a Chinese startup which has reportedly raised tens of millions of dollars with...
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Wego Indonesia Talks About Its Award-Winning Social Media Strategies
Travel website Wego Indonesia won an award for best social marketing strategy at the social media-oriented Eye For Travel Awards Asia in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Shashank Nigam, the CEO of...
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Xiaomi TV Set-Top Box Service Suspended, Regulatory Kerfuffle Perhaps to...
Just one week after the launch of Xiaomi’s set-top box for streaming media to TVs, the company has announced that it has been forced to suspend its online media service. Effective immediately, it...
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Japan’s KDDI, Softbank to Start Selling Cellular Model iPad Mini on November 30
Kyodo is reporting that Japanese carriers Softbank (TSE:9984) and KDDI (TYO:9433) say they will launch Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) new iPad Mini with cellular connectivity one week from today, on Friday,...
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Knock, Knock! Who’s There? Doctor! Doctor Who? No, a DoctorPage Seed Funding...
We’re seeing a lot of healthcare-oriented startups emerge these days in the region. Another new one is DoctorPage.sg which has just received seed funding a mere two months after it launched. Like a...
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Noise Street: Making In-Store Advertising More Interactive
Yesterday, it was announced that Singapore startup NoiseStreet and SPH MediaBoxOffice have partnered to launch a smartphone-based solution that aims to bring a new level of engagement, interactivity,...
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Zendesk Continues Asia Push With Strong Progress in India
A few months back we spoke to the folks at Zendesk about their plans to expand their cloud-based customer service software around the Asia region. And with a fresh $60 million in pocket from Redpoint...
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