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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Nir Eyal to Hold Workshop in Indonesia
Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and mentor Nir Eyal (pictured right) will come to Indonesia next year to hold a free workshop about how to design habit-forming products. Nir himself has...
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Noom Brings Weight-Loss Apps to Asia After Gaining Some Funding Muscle
Noom Inc., a mobile health & fitness developer, has announced that it has secured $2.6 million in pre-series-A funding. The funding round was led by UK-based VC firm m8 Capital along with Qualcomm...
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XL Axiata Strengthens Indonesian Windows Phone Ecosystem with Carrier Billing...
Today Nokia Indonesia and local operator XL Axiata announced a partnership to help Indonesian Windows Phone (WP) users purchase apps through carrier billing. Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) claims that...
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Czech Data Startup BellaDati Establishes Korea Office, Expands Into Asia
When we heard about the expansion of Czech startup BellaDati, a cloud-based business analytics company, into Korea, we were kind of surprised. After all, it’s not every day you hear about a European...
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Cooliris Launches its Photo App in China With Renren Integration
The folks over at Cooliris have been pretty busy of late, recently pushing a new update for its iOS app with support for new services like Google Drive, Picasa/Google+, and Flickr. And today the...
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Japanese Startup Voyagin Connects You To Travel Experiences in Southeast Asia
Tokyo-based startup Entertainment Kick today launched a new web service called Voyagin, which allows you to discover authentic travel experiences, particularly in Southeast Asian countries. Our...
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Facing Trouble in the US, ZTE Doubles Down with Big Investment
ZTE has not been having an easy go of things in the US of late. But investigations and financial troubles be damned, the company is apparently pouring another $30 million into its US operations,...
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Chinese Mobile Phones Hold a Big Chunk of East African Market, But That’s Not...
Just yesterday, I wrote about China’s soft-power failures from a regulatory perspective, and today there is more news about soft power failures, albeit of a kind that isn’t really the government’s...
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Jakarta Meetup: Tech Trends in Indonesia 2013
2012 is drawing to a close. Looking back, we can see that e-commerce and e-payment were major forces in Indonesia’s tech scene this year. What happened clearly is important but the past is past and it...
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Yahoo to Shut Down its China Music Service Which Deep-Links to Pirated MP3s
Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) has made an announcement that its Yahoo Music service for China will close. A notice on the site says that it will shut on January 20th, 2013. It comes just three months after...
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Announcing TechinAsia Meetups 2013!
Hey folks! Today, we’re officially announcing TechinAsia Meetups 2013. What is that, you ask? Well, it’s a series of meet-up sessions that connects internet industry stakeholders – entrepreneurs,...
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2012 in Review According to Facebook
We recently mentioned Google’s end-of-year Zeitgeist presentation, which summarized the hottest topics from the past year, included widely searched topics in Asia. Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has also...
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This is How Luxury Brands Do Awesome Social Media Marketing in China in 2012
China’s online market is vast and growing at an insane rate – Chinese e-commerce sales are projected to triple from now to 2015 – which makes it a draw for all luxury brands. But it’s also so very...
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Noi: Vietnam’s Largest Social Dating Network
Noi.vn is the largest social dating network in Vietnam today. The social dating network was founded in 2009 and it received funding from YAN Group and IDG Ventures Vietnam in mid 2010. To date, it has...
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Sina Weibo Hints at Social Commerce Shift with Xiaomi Phone Sales
If you’re not willing to face the Mayan’s mooted apocalypse on the 21st while clutching your lousy old phone, then Xiaomi has some good news for you. The young Chinese phone-maker is doing some clever...
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M8VC: Thailand’s New $10 Million Startup Fund Vows to Nurture Ideas [INTERVIEW]
Thailand’s new M8VC fund has 300 million baht (nearly US$10 million) to invest in local startups next year, so it’ll be a new VC player to watch. Myself and the Thumbsup team had the chance to talk to...
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Stellar Applications Showcased at Lumia Apps Olympiad in Indonesia
Photo: from Kompas Nokia Indonesia’s Windows Phone apps competition, the Lumia Apps Olympiad, found its 20 gold medalists yesterday from a field of 428 competing developers. Here are four interesting...
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Founder of Girls in Tech: Ladies, Take More Risks! [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Relocating from one country to another is never an easy task. For some, the decision would probably mean sacrificing friendships, family, and other things you enjoy in your pursuits. Adriana...
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Separating the Men from the Boys in Japan’s Online Social Scene
Image: Looops, freshtrax The folks over at Looops Communications recently put together a good overview of some of the major social platforms in Japan [1]. And there’s a helpful translation here from...
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WeChat App Implicated at Trial of Pedophile in China
The trial of a sexual predator in Guangdong province in southern China has implicated the smash-hit messaging app WeChat as the way that the man lured in underage boys. The accused, Li Jun, a former...
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