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India May Investigate Huawei, ZTE Over Safety Concerns
Chinese phone and telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE are having a rough go of it overseas. A recent US Congressional investigation alleged that the companies’ technology may have security flaws...
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Talk to Chinese Players and Curse at Gold Farmers in WoW with this Handy...
Would you be happy if I constantly stole your mobs? World of Warcraft players worldwide often complain about Chinese gold farmers, but how many have actually tried to communicate with them? That’s the...
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Sina Updates Weibo NGO Platform
Sina makes a big deal out of its enterprise weibo accounts, but for-profit businesses aren’t the only organizations that can get access to their own special platform on Sina Weibo. Sina also runs...
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Rumor: Xiaomi Set-Top Box Just Paving the Way for an Actual Television
The Xiaomi set-top box: just the beginning? We’ve written a lot about Xiaomi’s set-top box, which readers may recall has recently become tangled in a regulatory mess. That nightmare is far from over,...
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FxCamera Finally Launches for iPhone, But With Some Hiccups
A few weeks back we told you about Japan-based Bitcellar, whose FxCamera for Android had past the impressive milestone of 20 million downloads. At that point we also learned that the company had an...
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HelpLearn.Asia: A New Seminar Series About Online Marketing Essentials
Most companies, large or small, are taking their businesses online these days. So it is important that they educate themselves about various online and digital marketing campaigns in order to increase...
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Chinese Social Recipes Startup has Right Ingredients, Raises $8 Million from...
GGV Capital, perhaps spurred on by its new US$625 million fund that focuses on China, has invested in the local recipes sharing startup Douguo.com. This second round of funding for Douguo is worth $8...
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India’s MakeMyTrip Continues Push into Thailand with New $3.2M Acquisition
Just a few weeks after India’s MakeMyTrip (NASDAQ:MMYT) acquired the Thailand-based site HotelTravel for $25 million, the travel e-commerce site is continuing its Southeast Asia push by announcing...
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CodeRage Aspires to Show Singaporean Students Startups Are Great Places to Work
Despite all the entrepreneurial buzz happening in this tiny, little island of Singapore, often one of the pain points raised by startups is the lack of talent. I would agree that it’s an issue, given...
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10 Exciting Ideas from Inaugural Singapore Women Startup Weekend
The inaugural Singapore Startup Weekend, Women’s Edition took place over the weekend. There were a total of 60 participants, and 60 percent of those were women. In total, there were 54 gruelling hours...
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Japanese Tower Defense Game ‘Battle Cats’ has Huge Potential
We recently wrote about Mr. Ninja, a fun iPhone game from Japanese developer Ponos. That game was fun for casual play, and for the first time really put Ponus on our radar as a developer to watch. And...
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After US and Europe, YouTube Original Channels Launch in Japan
There’s word from Google Japan today that its Youtube Original Channels initiative has finally hit Japan. In total, there are 13 prominent Japanese content companies on board, producing 17 channels...
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Bilna Gives Birth to Babycare E-Commerce Site Today, Already Nurtured with...
A new specialist e-commerce site in the form of Bilna.com launches today in Indonesia, and it comes prepared with seed funding from both CyberAgent Ventures and East Ventures [1]. The online store...
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GMO VenturePartners Shifts Focus to Southeast Asia With $12M Fund
Japan’s GMO VenturePartners is today announcing the launch of a one billion yen (or about $12 million) venture fund that will see the firm focus on opportunities in the Southeast Asia region. The...
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The ‘Made in India’ Budget Tablet That Was (Sort of) Made in China
In a blow to India’s supposedly homegrown budget tablet, the Aakash, it has been revealed that the gadget is partially made in China. This applies only to the newer Aakash 2 (pictured above), which...
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IdBlogNetwork Partners with Wego, Reaches 118 Million Monthly Pageviews
It’s been quite a long time since we last heard about the progress of Indonesia’s blog advertising network Idblognetwork – more than one year, to be exact. We caught up with the team again recently to...
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Sina Weibo Challenges LinkedIn in China with New Business Social Network
Sina Weibo, China’s hottest Twitter clone, already has lots of spin-off features. And this week it has one more in the shape of Wei Renmai (‘Weibo Connections’ might be a good way to translate it),...
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Report Says Cisco, Other US Companies Pose Threat to Chinese Information...
Investigating Cisco: the front page story in China Economy and Informatization With the US Congress taking swings at Huawei and ZTE it was only a matter of time before China took some swings of its...
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Kakao Launches Free Group Voice Chat with Some Interesting Features
After a day of testing the service to ensure call quality was good enough, Korea-based Kakao announced today that it has launched what it calls the world’s first HD voice free mobile group Call...
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GREE Partners with Latin America’s Biggest Game Dev Vostu to Bring ‘Shaking...
Japanese social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) is announcing today that it is partnering with Latin American game company Vostu to bring hit game Shaking Vegas to mobile via the GREE platform. The game...
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