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Suck It and See: Nightspade Explores Gaming Partnership with Candy Maker...
Indonesian game developer Nightspade together with candy brand Chupa Chups launched an iOS game called Give a Dam back in November. This kind of partnership with an internationally recognized brand...
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Facebook Messenger Makes Sign-ups Easier in India, Indonesia, and More
People don’t tend to think of Facebook as a major playing in the instant messaging market, but the company has just announced an update to its Facebook Messenger IM app that will make it easier for...
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Red Dot Ventures Puts Seed Funding into Singapore’s ‘The Stakeholder Company’
Singapore-based incubator Red Dot Ventures has announced that it’s ploughing S$600,000 (US$490,000) of seed funding into compatriot startup The Stakeholder Company. Founded last year, The Stakeholder...
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Government, Google, and Citizens Come Together for Crisis Response in the...
Google’s Crisis Response map for Typhoon Pablo Folks in the Philippines have been hit by another typhoon over the past few days, as Typhoon Pablo hit on Monday. More than 40,000 people were reportedly...
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China Mobile Planning Own Line of Mobile Phones; Plus CEO Talks Apple Plans
This morning, China Mobile CEO Li Yue announced that the telecom provider is planning to launch its own line of branded mobile phones. Li also said that the company will “definitely” continue and...
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Evolving at the Speed of Light, 2 Chinese Photo-Sharing Apps Add Voice Comments
That was fast. Just a few weeks after some ‘Instagram with voice’ startup apps emerged into the limelight, two of China’s established photo-sharing services have already rolled out voice comments....
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Yahoo’s Jacqueline Reses Takes Seat on Alibaba Board
Yahoo’s Jacqueline Reses China’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba, has just announced that Yahoo’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) Jacqueline Reses has joined Alibaba Group’s board of directors. After this summer’s...
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Komli Media Partners with Yoose to Serve Geo-targeted Ads
Komli Media has announced its second deal in the last five days, this time a sales partnership with Singapore-based hyperlocal mobile ad network Yoose. The deal will see Komli Media’s mobile division...
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Australia’s Flippa Helps You Flip Websites Quicker than Ever
While I’ve never ventured into the business of buying and flipping domain names or websites myself, it seems like an intriguing business. Ponder creative .com name, buy, flip, profit! Typically the...
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Capcom Announces Plans for Ghostbusters Social Mobile Game, Coming Soon
Japanese game developer and publisher Capcom (TYO:9697) has announced another impressive addition to its social games lineup today, promising that it will be releasing a Ghostbusters social game for...
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Take Note, Evernote: Netease’s Cloud Notes App Hits 8 Million Users
Chinese web portal Netease (NASDAQ:NTES) is making good progress with its Evernote-like cloud notes service, Youdao YunBiJi, which has just surpassed eight million users. According to the Youdao...
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Nokia Lumia Holds Developer Competition in Indonesia; No More Updates Beyond...
Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 were officially launched yesterday in Indonesia. To help get the hype going, Nokia is holding a developer competition for the Windows Phone (WP) 7.5 and 8 platforms in the...
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In Vietnam, For Every 100 People There are 145 Mobile Phones
Texting in traffic has become a part of Vietnamese modern culture. | comic art by phong210.wordpress.com With Vietnam’s internet penetration at 34 percent and the latest Facebook growth statistics...
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Nokia Brings WP8 to China with Launch of Lumia 920T on China Mobile
Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) brought the first Windows Phone 8 (WP8) device to China today with the launch of its Lumia 920T on the nation’s biggest telco, China Mobile. It becomes the first Microsoft...
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China Internet Report Gives a Glimpse of Tencent’s Dominance
IDG Capital Partners released an interesting white paper on the Chinese internet back in October. As a whole, it’s a little fragmented in its content, but there are a few interesting nuggets of...
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Youku, MapBar Apps Disappear from Apple’s China App Store
The folks over at TechWeb noticed something odd yesterday on Apple’s App Store in China: the apps for video streaming site Youku, travel service Ctrip, and map service MapBar had all gone missing....
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China Mobile to Found Internet Company, Run it Like a Startup
Boy, China Mobile CEO Li Yue is saying some interesting things these days! Just yesterday he announced that China Mobile will be producing its own line of mobile phones, and today he said at a...
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Rakuten Set to Ship Kobo Mini in Japan on December 18
Rakuten’s (JSD:4755) subsidiary Kobo has announced that its Kobo Mini e-reader is now available for pre-order, with shipments starting on December 18. This one is a 5-inch e-ink device, available in...
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HomeAway Brings its Vacation Rentals to Chinese Tourists in TuJia Tie-Up
One of the first Chinese startups I wrote about this year was TuJia, which is an online service for vacation home rentals. Then a few months later, this promising site attracted major series A...
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Trials and Tribulations of a Young VC in Southeast Asia
James Chan is chief hustler at Silicon Straits, and concurrently principal at Neoteny Labs. He is currently kicking the cans around on a couple of fronts, some of which you might hear about soon. It’s...
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