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Touchten’s Infinite Sky Set to Launch for Chinese and Japanese Markets
Indonesian game developer Touchten’s flagship game, Infinite Sky, which has garnered more than one million downloads and 200,000 daily active users, has managed to break even on revenues from the game...
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Rakuten Rolls Out ‘Smartpay’ Mobile Payments Solution
I suppose given that many other companies have already launched smartphone payments solutions in Japan already, it should come as no surprise to see Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten (JSD:4755) jump in...
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China-Based Wine E-Tailer Vinehoo Raises Funding For its Flash Sales
Being big fans of both alcohol and startups, we’re pleased to hear of yet more funding for a Chinese wine e-commerce site. This time it’s Vinehoo that has pulled in RMB 5 million (US$800,000) – though...
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Lazada Receives $26M From Summit Partners, Has Now Raised Over $100M in 4 Months
Rocket Internet’s Asia-oriented e-commerce site Lazada announced yesterday that the company received $26 million in funding from equity investor Summit Partners. The money will be spent on further...
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KDDI Set to Launch HTC J Butterfly in Japan On December 9
Japanese carrier KDDI (TYO:9433) has announced the launch date for its much anticipated HTC J Butterfly. The handset will go on sale in Japan this Sunday, December 9. This is the flagship model among...
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A Vision of Vietnam’s Internet Future?
A common internet scene across Vietnam | photo credit: Time In dusty, cramped rooms across Vietnam, kids and adults log on to the web in internet shops. It’s a common sight on every other street in...
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EatAds, the Online Marketplace for Offline Ads, Raises Funds and Adds 2 New...
The newly-expanded EatAds founder crew: (L-R) Nigel, Dhruv, John. We’re seeing a great proliferation in online marketplaces in Asia this year, and here’s another one that’s blossoming. Singapore-based...
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Telkomsel and Google Bring Free Mobile Internet to Indonesia
Yesterday Indonesian telco Telkomsel and Google launched a free mobile internet feature called Free Zone. This new feature allows Telkomsel users to use three of Google’s products – Google search,...
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Apple’s Tim Cook: Some Mac Production to Shift from China to US in 2013 [VIDEO]
See the video on the NBC link. US TV network NBC will air an exclusive interview with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook later today, in which he reveals that “next year we will do one of our existing...
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Gamenauts Announces Initiative to Work With Indie Game Devs
Silicon Valley-based game development studio, Gamenauts, is announcing today that it will be partnering with a number of independent mobile game developers from the Asia region. The company has...
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Baidu and Lenovo Announce New $150 LePhone Handset
Chinese search giant Baidu is apparently continuing its trend of working with other tech companies to produce its branded phones. After partnerships with Dell and Changhong, among others, Baidu has...
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How Huawei Helped Iran Spy on Citizens and Why Brand China is Poison
Image via Reuters Hoo boy. Chinese telecom equipment provider Huawei has been having a rough couple of months what with all the speculation about spying coming from places as high up as the US...
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Growing with its Baby Boomer Users, Kaixin Launches a Baby Photo Diary App
Kaixin, one of China’s earliest Facebook-style social networks, might be struggling to stay relevant, but at least it’s growing with its users. Now figuring that its late-teens/early-20s user-base is...
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GREE Continues US Expansion, But With Some Growing Pains
There’s interesting news from GREE (TYO:3632) today, as the social gaming giant issued an announcement that it is expanding its US games business via a new mobile investment fund. But the company also...
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China’s WineNice Raises Over $15M in Funding, Rumored to Involve Rothschild...
Yes, this is the third bit of news for a China-based wine e-commerce site in as many days. This time it’s the turn of WineNice to count some cash as it wraps up series B funding thought to be worth...
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China’s Boldest Groupon Clone to Launch Open Group Buying Platform: a World...
Tuanbao CEO Ren Chunlei Innovation isn’t something you would normally expect fron Tuanbao, China’s most blatant Groupon clone. After all, Tuanbao CEO Ren Chunlei not only snapped up the groupon.cn...
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Monster Fantasia: Nijibox Brings its Second Title to Southeast Asia via...
Japanese game developer and publisher Nijibox has announced today that it has released its latest title Monster Fantasia for the Kotagames platform. Kotagames is a feature phone game platform that is...
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Australia’s ‘Pushstart Mentor Live’ is Sort of Speed Dating for Startups and...
‘Pushstart Mentor Live’ is a speed networking event that connects startups with tech industry mentors. Each startup team was able to meet with three mentors for 15 minutes each. The event was held on...
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Oompr is A Social Alternative to Buying and Selling on Forums
I recently met up with the founders of Oompr! (pronounced ‘Oom-per’), Louis and Weikiat. Both are graduating next year and have done a few interesting projects during their university days. Oompr is...
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6 Reasons Video-Sharing Apps Were the Biggest Startup Letdown of 2012
This time last year I was raving, I was gushing, all over startups making video-sharing apps. I named one such venture as one of my standout Chinese startups of 2011, and compiled a list of 10...
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