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Qihoo’s Search Engine Adds Music to its Repertoire
Ever since anti-virus maker Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU) first caused waves with the launch of its own search engine this summer, the company has been expanding its offerings. Today it has rolled out a dedicated...
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Digital Loyalty App Pouch Graduates From JKTFI, Aims for Philippines Expansion
Pouch is a marketing and loyalty program app which allows customers to collect digital stamps on their smartphones from merchant partners. It was founded by three people who all met up in Singapore –...
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Eloku Graduates from JKTFI, Provides Top-End Hardware Solution for Logistics...
Indonesia’s Eloku is a cloud-based solution to keep track of delivery services. The startup is run by hardware specialist Didi Setiadi and software specialist Argo Wibowo. Didi explained that the...
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A Million Malaysians Now Connecting on LinkedIn
LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) is announcing today that it has surpassed the one million user milestone in Malaysia. The company launched its Bahasa Malaysia language site late last year (along with Indonesian...
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Clothing E-Tailer Vancl Cutting 25% of Workforce Ahead of 2013 US IPO?
Chinese clothing e-tailer Vancl is reportedly cutting as much as 25 percent of its workforce ahead of an anticipated US IPO in the first or second quarter of 2013. Vancl, which manufactures its own...
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Zalora Indonesia Reaches 150,000 Daily Visits Thanks to TV Ad Spot
Rocket Internet’s fashion e-commerce company Zalora Indonesia has laid out its plans for the upcoming Christmas holiday season. Zalora Indonesia has five new features for Indonesian customers in the...
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NTT Docomo Establishes Singaporean Subsidiary, Supports Japanese Abroad
Japan’s leading telephone carrier NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) today announced that it will be establishing a subsidiary in Singapore that will provide services to Japanese customers and businesses in the...
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Singaporean Government Invests in Chinese Gaming Community YY
Chinese gaming community YY has been having a good time since it debuted on the market (NASDAQ:YY) a couple weeks ago. It’s up over $13 a share now, and apparently someone in Singapore saw this coming,...
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With Network Permits Issued, iPhone 5 Coming Soon to China
Eagle-eyed reporters at TechWeb today have spotted some good news for Apple fans in China: the iPhone 5 has finally received its network permits from MIIT. Permits were issued for both the China...
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MIIT Shares China’s October Numbers: Internet Gets More Mobile, Land Line...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has just released statistics on the state and growth of China’s tech sector as of the end of October. Over the course of the month, users...
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It’s Vampire Season for GREE, as its Latin American Invasion Continues
Yesterday Japanese mobile gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) announced a partnership with Brazilian game developer Vostu, the leading social games company in Latin America. And now just a day later, GREE...
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Open Sesame: Baidu Helps Lenovo Use Voice Recognition to Unlock Android Phones
There are already a few ways to get into your Android device in a secure way: face recognition, a passcode, or a grid pattern. And now there’s one more smartphone safeguard – voice recognition. This...
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Rewardz Gives Singapore Startup Employees Some Corporate Style Benefits
I’ve always been in startups, and can only listen in envy when friends at large banks or multi-national corporations talk of enjoying some fancy benefits. That sucks. So Rewardz is a new...
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The GIF That Keeps on Giving: FotoRus App Passes 20 Million Global Downloads
Now that animated GIFs are all over the place – even in news articles – it should be no surprise that one early GIF-making app is doing well. The Chinese startup behind FotoRus app (called WanTu in...
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With 3 Million Users in Japan, DeNA Brings Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade to...
DeNA (TYO:2432) and Square Enix (TYO:9684) are partnering to bring the first free-to-play, English Final Fantasy title to mobile phones in the US and Canada. Final Fantasy fans now can pre-register...
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Newly Graduated from JKTFI, Ticbox Offers Affordable Online Surveys in Indonesia
Ticbox.co is a startup that helps companies conduct credible and fast online surveys at affordable prices in Indonesia. It is one of the three startups that have newly graduated from the Jakarta...
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Japan Overtakes US to Become Top Country for Google Play Revenues
The folks over at App Annie have released a pretty fascinating report that shows some interesting shifts that are happening in the mobile space. Perhaps the most surprising is the fact that Japan has...
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Qihoo’s Search Engine Taps Autonavi For New Maps
Another day, another new feature added to Qihoo’s (NYSE:QIHU) fledgling search engine service. But, as with previous elements added to 360 Search – like yesterday’s music portal – it’s with a little...
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Evernote Integrates With Tencent’s ONE Browser, Now in English, Thai, and...
Earlier this month, Evernote integrated with Tencent’s ONE Browser for mobiles in India. Today, Evernote announced that its service is now available in Thai and Indonesian too. The integration with ONE...
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Another Manga Camera App from Japan, This Time From Tokyo Otaku Mode
Readers may remember a few weeks back when we wrote about a unique Japanese camera application called Manga Camera. As you can probably tell from the app’s name, its function is to turn your phone’s...
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