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Yahoo To Shut Down Its Blogging Platform in Vietnam
The End of an Era? | photo via http://blog.ineedhits.com/ Starting January 17th next year, bloggers on the Vietnamese version of the Yahoo Blog platform will not be able to login to their Yahoo blogs...
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Indonesian Design Service Sribu Partners with Visa to Help it Expand
Indonesian design crowdsourcing company Sribu [1] announced today that the company now accepts payments by Visa. Sribu also offers a 15 percent discount to all design contests held by customers that...
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Irrational Optimism for Entrepreneurship
John Fearon is a lifelong entrepreneur. His 33 years have taken him from selling sweets as a child, to global digital marketing, to founding Dropmyemail.com, one of the fastest growing cloud companies...
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Red Dot Ventures Wants to Help Startups Hire
Singapore based VC Red Dot Ventures has partnered with Lithan Hall Academy to launch a hiring and training plan that aims to help startups with their hiring needs. The plan is supported and funded by...
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Five Tips for Building a Strong Social Brand
Bhupendra Khanal is the CEO and co-founder of Simplify360, Asia’s leading media monitoring platform based in India. The company will complete its fourth year this month and now has presences in the US,...
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After 350,000 Downloads for Photodeco, Japan’s I-Freek Rolls Out Premium App
Japanese mobile internet company I-Freek has announced today that it has released Photodeco+ for Android, a premium version of its regular Photodeco camera application which has already seen over...
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iPhone 5 Now Available for Pre-Order in Indonesia, Delivers Next Friday
Apple’s latest handset, the iPhone 5 is set to be available on December 14th in Indonesia. Two operator partners – Telkomsel and Indosat XL Axiata have made their first move to sell the handset in the...
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SMS Your Stolen Motorbike to Get It Back
The S-Bike from Setech Viet | photo via http://www.baomoi.com/ Setech Viet, a small unknown one-and-a-half year old company in Ho Chi Minh city just released a device that allows you to text your own...
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How a Domestic Game Console Could Win in China
Today, I found myself on the Amazon China page for the CT-510, Lenovo-backed Eedoo’s $600 home entertainment system, reading the reviews. They are not pretty. Here’s a clip from the most highly-rated...
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Huawei and ZTE have been in the news quite a bit recently, and this week they make appearances again, but one of them definitely wishes that wasn’t the case. But which one is it? Plus, who has made a...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Dec. 9]
This was a pretty intense week, as you’re about to find out from our weekly picks. So before we get into that, let’s mellow out a little bit with some classical Chinese poetry. “Climbing Stork Tower”...
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14 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
It’s been another busy week here at TechinAsia and we have for you a compilation of all the startups in Asia we have covered. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively,...
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Japan’s BizReach Proves that Top Jobs Listings are Worth Top Dollar [INTERVIEW]
Swimmy Minami (pictured right) is the co-founder of BizReach, a site that helps its users find senior level jobs that pay more than $100,000 annually. The interesting thing is that it charges users,...
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Hong Kong’s 3rd Apple Store, This Time in Causeway Bay, Close to Completion
Image by Casey Lau. Nearly three months after Hong Kong got its second official Apple Store, it’s all set for a third, which is due to open quite soon – likely before Christmas – in the Causeway Bay...
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Japan’s Phewtick Wants You to Scan QR Codes in Exchange for Rewards
Recently in Tokyo, I managed to catch up with Kaz Naya, CEO and co-founder of Phewtick, a startup we reported on earlier this year. Phewtick is an app that allows its users to meet new people, and you...
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GREE’s ‘Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops’ Hit 100,000 Downloads in First 2 Days
Metal Gear Solid cards, Tokyo Game Show 2012 VS Media points out this morning that Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops, which was released just last week by GREE (TYO:3632) and Konami (NYSE:KNM), hit 100,000...
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E-book Startup Ookbee Experiencing Huge Growth, Approaching 3 Million Users
Thai e-book startup Ookbee is about to reach three million users, and will probably hit the milestone in a couple of months time. CEO and founder Natavudh Pungcharoenpong revealed this to us in Tokyo...
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Docomo’s 7 Million LTE Subscribers Give it an Edge in Japan’s Carrier Wars
New mobile subscriber figures from Japan’s Telecom Carriers Association show that the country’s leading carrier, NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM), dropped 40,800 customers in November, sliding from 60.79 million...
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Indonesian Corporations Recently Spent $557 Million on IT Hardware
Market research company GFK Indonesia reported today that the country’s corporations have spent around $557 million on IT hardware during the six month period from April to September 2012. Here are...
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The First Blackberry Store Opens in Vietnam
RIM is opening its first ever official Blackberry store in Vietnam hinting at a more aggressive presence into the country. The store will open in the newly built Vincom A building in the heart of Ho...
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