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Don’t Tase Her, Bro: US Police Taser Chinese Woman Thought to be an iPhone...
CNN has spotted a local TV news station in the US reporting on the unfortunate case of a Chinese woman in America being tasered by police in an altercation at an Apple Store. The woman, surnamed Li,...
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Japanese Animation Studio Has Global Potential, Receives Silicon Valley...
Recently Silicon Valley-based Fenox Venture Capital announced its investment in Japan’s Dream Link Entertainment Inc., which it notes is the largest Flash animation company in that country. I was...
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China-Made UC Browser is Bigger Than Ever, Reaches 400 Million Global Users
Beijing-based UCWeb, makers of the smash-hit UC Browser for phones, is announcing today that it now has more than 400 million global users. That huge figure is pretty insane for basically just a...
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Shanghai’s Mailman Group Launches New Fund, Looks to Invest in Asian Startups
Shanghai-based online media company Mailman Group launched its startup fund a couple of days ago to help aspiring Asian startups expand their business throughout the region. Called Mailman Ventures,...
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This Sino-French Startup Aims to Give China a Monthly Taster of Fine Wines
With nearly 10 percent of my posts in the past couple of weeks being about some alcohol-related website, I’m at risk of appearing obsessed with booze. Nonetheless, here’s another such site, this time...
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E-Commerce in Vietnam: A Status Report [Part 1]
Is Amazon in 1994 where Vietnam’s e-commerce is in 2012? | photo via http://i.dailymail.co.uk E-commerce is one of the hot new spaces in which Vietnamese startups want to compete. But is it really a...
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Sega’s Kingdom Conquest II Briefly Hits Number 1 in Japan
Sega’s sequel to Kingdom Quest was recently released, and it briefly found itself at the top of the free iOS app charts in Japan yesterday [1]. I had not played the original, which boasts 3.5 million...
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Finally, TradeHero is in Apple’s App Store
That was certainly a long wait for TradeHero to be approved by the Apple app store. Readers may remember that I previously wrote a pretty glowing post about its product concept: A mobile app that...
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Vuclip’s Nokia App Hits 1 Million Downloads, Really Taking Off in India
As we’ve said before on the blog, feature phones and their users shouldn’t be ignored – even in terms of monetization. And that’s something shown by Vuclip, which recently raised $13 million, led by...
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iPhone 5 Finally Launched in China, No Reports of Violence
In the early hours of the morning today, the first official iPhone 5s went on sale in China. Unsurprisingly, the devices are reportedly selling well, and unlike the last time Apple launched a mobile...
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China’s App Apocalypse? Regulators Explain, Developers Worried
The announcement that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will move to regulate China’s app market has left many wondering what effect this will ultimately have on the...
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Korean Government Awards Google for Helping Spread Korean Culture
Korean pop star PSY’s smash-hit Gangnam Style video (sorry if I just got it stuck in your head) has more than 943 million views on Youtube, and that number is only climbing. PSY doesn’t represent the...
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Japan’s DeNA and Korea’s KT Corporation Partner for Mobile Games Exchange
Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432) announced today that it will be teaming up with KT Corporation (NYSE:KT) in Korea to ‘mutually exchange mobile social games’ between the companies’ respective networks. This...
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Taobao Removed from US Pirate List, But Still Plenty of Chinese Pirates Around
Last year it was Chinese search engine Baidu that was removed from the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) report on major piracy offenders, and this year it’s the turn of the e-commerce store Taobao...
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4 Survival Tips Every Early-Stage Startup Needs to Know
George Karidis is the chief strategy officer for SoftLayer Technologies. He is responsible for managing and running the company’s Catalyst Program which supports leading incubators, accelerators and...
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Stock Trading Platform 8 Securities Raises More Funds, Will Soon Launch in Japan
How the 8 Securities trading dashboard will look for Japanese users. We’ve been following the progress of Hong Kong-based 8 Securities for about a year, and the socially-oriented stocks trading portal...
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Google Ties up with Kstartup to Support South Korean Entrepreneurs
Over on the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) blog today, the company is highlighting entrepreneurship in South Korea, as well as its involvement and support via its Google for Entrepreneurs initiative. Google has...
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iPhone 5 Launches in Indonesia, Met With Queues and Contests
The iPhone 5 is finally launched today in Indonesia. Now, the phone can be ordered nationwide through its three carrier partners, Telkomsel, XL Axiata, and Indosat. It’s also for sale through other...
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This is Apple’s Amazing Glass-Fronted Third Store in Hong Kong [PICS]
Images courtesy of @hypercasey on Instagram. Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) third official Hong Kong store opens tomorrow morning and already the covers are off, giving everyone a great view of the three-floor,...
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You’ve Come a Long Way Baby: 1,000 Days of KakaoTalk [INFOGRAPHIC]
Three days ago, December 11th marked the 1,000th day since the launch of Korean-made chat app KakaoTalk. To celebrate that feat, the chat app published an infographic about its newest stats earlier...
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