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Lumia 920 and 820 Now Available for Pre-Order in Indonesia
The latest Windows Phone 8 handsets from Nokia, the Lumia 920 and 820, are now available for pre-order at Nokia stores in Indonesia. The 920 is priced at IDR 6.499 million ($678) while the 820 costs...
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Singapore’s Cliquefund Takes a Different Approach to Crowdfunding
We recently wrote about Social Innovations Camp Asia, which was help in Kuala Lumpur last month. The event centered around developing a number of worthwhile social initiatives, including Blood Donors...
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Indonesian-Made ‘Soccer Ticker’ App Wins Blackberry JamHack Asia
The final round of this year’s Blackberry JamHack Asia wrapped up on Friday. The two-day event in Bangkok brought all the winning developers from 10 cities across Asia – Bangalore, Delhi, Manila,...
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The Impact of Vietnam’s Fallen Group Buying Star
Although Nhom Mua, Vietnam’s leading group-buying site, is finally back online, the news of its investigation by authorities – and the website takedown – has sent shockwaves throughout the startup...
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Google Japan Helps Politicians Connect With Public As Elections Approach
The folks over on RocketNews24 point out that Google Japan has an online initiative set up to help connect politicians and the public using Google+. The company will feature major party...
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Rumor: Xiaomi Set-Top Box Returning Soon With Less Content; Rebranding Possible
Here’s what we think the new Xiaomi set-top box might look like after a few weeks on its hot new SARFT content diet! Mobile phone makers Xiaomi recently branched out into the world of entertainment,...
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Are There Really Layoffs at Renren?
No one would deny that China’s once-premier social network Renren (NASDAQ:RENN) has been losing some of its shine of late. Its losses got worse in the third quarter thanks to increased operating...
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Angel Investor Xu Xiaoping: Great Companies Need a Soul
About a month ago, we took a look inside the mind of Chinese angel investor Xu Xiaoping. He is a pretty interesting guy, and last night, he wrote a long piece for Sina Tech’s special entrepreneurship...
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Kabam Acquires Beijing-based Games Studio Balanced Worlds
Social gaming giant Kabam has announced its acquisition of China-based Balanced Worlds Studio. The latter is a game development company established in 2006 which specializes in 3D social games. The...
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China’s Priciest Wine E-Commerce Site Launches, Aims at $50M in 1st Year Sales
Wangjiu’s priciest wine. China’s wealthiest wine connoisseurs now have another option when trying to source the very best wines. Over the weekend, the new e-commerce site WangJiu held a glitzy launch...
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Risk of US-Traded Chinese Tech Stocks Being Delisted as SEC Probes Accounting...
The US SEC dropped a bombshell last night, saying that it is beginning “administrative proceedings against the China affiliates of each of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms” for failing to hand over...
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Japanese Programmer Community ‘Qiita’ Passes 10,000 Users
Qiita, an online programmer community for programmers in Japan, has just surpassed the 10,000 registered user milestone. Qiita was created by Increments Inc., and since it was initially launched back...
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iTunes Music Store Expands to India and Indonesia, Brings Movies Too
Apple’s iTunes began to accept payments for apps in the currencies of India and Indonesia in October of this year – and that’s the basis for today’s rollout of the iTunes Music Store in those...
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China’s Momo App Chats Up 20 Million Users, Also Sees Traction in the US
China’s biggest flirty chat app, Momo, is still attracting new users at one hell of a rate. Today the startup’s app reached 20 million users. That’s stellar growth from a fledgling two million back in...
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Association of E-Commerce Indonesia to Hold First Seminar in December
The Association of E-commerce Indonesia (IdEA) was assembled by heavyweight Indonesian e-commerce players back in May to help spur the growth of Indonesia’s online shopping industry. The current...
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Blackberry JamHack Asia Winner Talks Soccer, Apps, the Future of BB 10 in...
Blackberry JamHack Asia just finished a few days ago, with Indonesian web and app developers Inspira Solusi Indonesia emerging as the grand champion with its Soccer Ticker app (pictured below). The...
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GREE and Konami Release ‘Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops’ in Japan
GREE booth at Tokyo Game Show 2012 Back at the Tokyo Game Show earlier this year, Metal Gear Solid was prominently displayed at the GREE (TYO:3632) booth, in anticipation of the upcoming release in...
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Once Again Last in Line, Vietnam Gets iPhone 5 on December 21
Even with Android dominating, the Apple brand still strikes a chord with the Vietnamese consumer | photo via http://biz.cafef.vn/ The iPhone5 will soon hit Apple Stores and authorized resellers in 54...
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ZTE Closes $20 Billion Financing Deal, But Raises Further Questions About...
Chinese telecom and mobile firm ZTE announced yesterday that it has signed a five-year $20 billion financing agreement with China Development Bank. This is the third round of financing between the two...
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US-Listed China Stocks Tanking on News of SEC Accounting Probe
As we wrote yesterday, the SEC is probing five major Chinese accounting firms, and since those firms represent a lot of the US-listed Chinese companies, there is a risk that if things go badly, the...
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