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Google’s StreetView Coming to Indonesia As Camera Cars Hit the Road Today
Today, Indonesia’s ministry of tourism announced its partnership with Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) StreetView program for Google Maps. As of today, Indonesians might come across a fleet of Google cars...
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StarCall App Lets K-Pop Stars Call You in Real Time
I’m a little out of touch with the music scene recently, but I hear the kids these days really like themselves some K-pop. And South Korea as a whole appears to be doing a pretty good job of packaging...
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Payment Gateway iPayMu Supports PayPal; Partners with 137 Indonesian Banks
Indonesian payment gateway iPayMu has announced that it is now supporting payment via PayPal. This latest payment method is available to all iPayMu merchants and will help handle cross-border and...
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POPS WorldWide Founder Blazes an Entrepreneurial Trail in Vietnam
I like listening to entrepreneurs talk about their journeys. Like watching a movie, the storyline narrated to me will appear as pictures; I can visualize and feel what they have been through. In my...
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Rumor: Alibaba-Sina Weibo Deal Stalled
It seems Alibaba’s plan to buy a 15 to 20 percent stake of Sina Weibo (which just hit 400 million user accounts) has hit a little snag: no one can agree on a price. Morning Whistle, citing an...
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Kaixin Planning New Social App for Parents
Kaixin001, which has sort of become China’s Myspace (in that it’s still out there and has a surprising number of members despite the fact that no one ever talks about it any more), apparently isn’t...
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Tech in Asia: News Of The Week [November 23, 2012]
We have lots of things to be thankful for this week. If you had yourself a nice turkey dinner, you can be thankful for that. If you were Baidu this week and raised boatloads of money, you can probably...
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Report: 140 Million Android Users in China, 60 Million on iPhones
China has, at present, 390 million mobile internet users among its billion-strong phone subscribers. And now new data for 2012 Q3 from Beijing-based mobile analytics startup Umeng claims that, among...
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13 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
We here at TechInAsia have been once again busy watching the startup world over the past week. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to e-mail us. Alternatively, you can submit tips here, or...
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11 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week [Nov. 25, 2012]
There was no shortage of action from the big players in the China tech space this past week, as we saw lots of action from Baidu, as well as some movement in the daily deals and e-commerce spaces. If...
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Voicepic: The Latest Photo App Making Noise in Japan
We’ve written about a lot about creative photo applications coming out of Japan. There has been Line Camera, which has some crazy decorative functions, as well as the more recent Manga Camera which...
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How and Why Xiaomi Ran Afoul of China’s Media Regulator
We reported on Friday that Xiaomi’s TV set-top box had stopped working and speculated that the reason might be regulatory. And while the founder and CEO of the upstart gadget-maker, Lei Jun, has said...
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PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ is the Top Viewed YouTube Video of All Time
Google’s Eric Schmidt and PSY at Google Korea A new post over on the Youtube Trends blog points out that over the weekend PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ video became the new most-viewed video of all time....
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Indonesia’s Tiket Wins AICTA 2012 Startup Award, Shares Latest Stats
Indonesian ticket booking platform Tiket has made some interesting progress since we last talked with them in August. Tiket has bagged a hat trick of first prize awards (pictured above) over the last...
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Freak Show: Samsung Launches a Quad-Core, Dual-Screen Android Flip Phone in...
If China’s shanzhai phone-makers have taught big companies anything, it’s that you’ve got to give your customers what they want, even if what they want is absolutely mental. That brings us to...
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Document and Share Your Travel Experience with Travelog
If you love traveling, here’s a mobile app that takes note of all your key travel details that you want to keep track of or share. Travelog is developed by the four-person team at Korea-based startup...
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Kaskus’ C2C Marketplace Sees $60 Million in Sales Every Month
Indonesia’s biggest forum, Kaskus, just celebrated its 13th anniversary yesterday in Jakarta. At that event, the team shared some recent figures about its business and unveiled a trio of...
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Tencent to Ditch “QQ” Brand For Its Struggling E-Commerce Site?
Tencent’s (HKG:0700) “QQ” brand might be China’s first household name that emerged from the web – along with its iconic penguin – but the cutesy name has not been much help in the nation’s cut-throat...
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Arthur Guinness Fund Hackathon to Hit Singapore in December
We recently spotlighted Social Innovations Camp Asia, an event in Kuala Lumpur that brought together creative people to tackle important social problems through the use of technology. And in keeping...
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Fivepager Makes Web Development Affordable For Small Businesses
Mike Fernandez is making web design and development costs more affordable for small businesses in the Philippines. While web development services don’t usually fall within our scope of coverage here,...
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