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Konami Sets Up Shop in Singapore, Hungry for Talent
Gaming and entertainment giant Konami has recently set up a base in Singapore and is fanatically looking for talented game developers and artists to join its new team. I was told by the managing...
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IndSight Helps You Analyze Indonesian Social Media Trends
NoLimit, an Indonesian startup that specializes in analyzing social media through conversation analysis, launched its IndSight project a couple of days ago. The team describes it as a portal where...
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For the First Time Ever, an Apple Store Will Open Tomorrow in China’s Wild West
Ready to roll: The new Apple Store in Chengdu. Mainland China gets its eighth – and most far-flung – official Apple Store tomorrow with the opening of one way out in China’s fast-developing western...
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Indonesia’s Aksara Studio Builds Christmas Game for Nokia
Indonesian game developer Aksara Studio wants to make your Christmas even more merry with its newest game for Nokia’s S40 and Symbian platforms. It’s called Christmas Hunt, and the objective is to...
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Waigo App is a Pair of Eyes That Helps You Get a Bellyful of Chinese Food
I must admit that I really love apps that do something enormously useful, thereby taking the strain off of my slowly vegetating brain. The less I have to strain the synapses, the better. And so I...
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In Vietnam, One Tipping Point Leads to the Next
What’s Vietnam’s next tipping point? Lately, when thinking about the Vietnam startup scene, I’ve been wondering about tipping points. The online landscape in Vietnam has experienced a few big changes...
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Lax Real-Name Policies Hurting Chinese Dating Sites
We’ve written quite a bit about the lax enforcement of real-name policies on Chinese social networking platforms like Sina and Tencent Weibo. But Chinese dating sites have apparently been taking the...
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Long Journey 2 Dev Shares Secrets to Success at China’s Internet Culture...
Yesterday marked the kickoff of Beijing’s tenth annual Internet Culture Festival, bringing together net users and especially gaming fans from across the country to meet each other, play some games,...
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Golden Gate Ventures Scores a Triple Turkey: Coda Payments, RedMart, and...
It’s an early Christmas for three startups and a triple turkey for the Golden Gate Ventures (GGV) team this morning, as it announces its inaugural investments in Coda Payments, RedMart, and TradeGecko....
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Crowdsourcing Week to Hold First Global Conference in Singapore
Yesterday, the event known as Crowdsourcing Week announced its first ever global conference on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and open innovation that will run from June 3 to 7, 2013. This five-day...
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Web of Failure: How China’s Internet Policies Have Doomed Chinese Soft Power
This past week, even as net users across the country were discovering that China’s Great Firewall has been upgraded and that many VPNs no longer work, China’s state-run Xinhua wire service was busy...
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How Do China’s Online Retailers Differ from Major Online Retailers of the...
This question originally appeared on Quora, and the answers that follow were provided by Ben Chiang, Adventure Capitalist, Zach Brown, a Texan in China, and Grady Ha, marketing and strategy consultant....
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EU Considering Investigation, Possible Tariffs, for China’s ZTE and Huawei
China’s two telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE (HKG:0763; SHE:000063) are facing the prospect of European Union authorities launching an investigation into alleged dumping of telecoms equipment on European...
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Japanese Startup Giftee Has Free Chicken for Your Facebook Friends
giftee Christmas chicken campaign Last year you may recall that we featured Japanese startup Giftee, a service that lets you send real gifts to your friends via Twitter or Facebook. That same company...
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Surprise, Surprise: This Year’s Hottest US Stock was a Chinese Tech Company
There were only two Chinese tech companies that IPO’d in the US this year following a grim period of distrust and volatility on the markets – especially when it came to dealing with firms from China....
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Indonesian Telemarketer and TV Infomercial Maker Takes the Hard Sell into...
An Indonesian telemarketing and TV infomercial company DRTV Corporation is now expanding its business line into e-commerce via its new venture, Fastworld.co.id. The website, which was started at the...
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‘Line Play’ Virtual World Comes Out of Beta With a Million Users
NHN’s Japan has officially brought it’s Line Play virtual world application out of beta, and is now officially launching. The service reportedly has over a million users already as it comes out of the...
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Tencent: WeChat App Set to Surpass 300 Million Users Next Month
Already the world’s biggest messaging app, WeChat seems to be accelerating its growth even further in the past few months. That’s because Tencent (HKG:0700) founder and CEO Pony Ma said at a recent...
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Telunjuk Now Compares Home Electronic Products
Indonesian price comparison site Telunjuk announced today that it has added three home electronic product categories to its website: TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines. Telunjuk co-founder...
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Microblogging’s Slow Start in Vietnam
In September 2012, I stood in front of an audience of over 700 people at Barcamp Saigon and asked “Who uses facebook?” Everybody’s hands shot up. But when I asked “Who uses twitter?”, 20 percent of...
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