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Which Asian Tech Companies are Patenting Innovations?
IEEE Spectrum has released its yearly “patent power” scorecard, a rundown of the which companies had the most impressive US patent portfolio over the last year. The scoring is complicated, and the fact...
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China Unicom Picks Up Another 3.2 Million 3G Users in November
In news that should surprise precisely no one, China’s 3G market continues to grow like hotcakes. Or, rather, grow like a weed. The market is growing like a weed and 3G plans are selling like...
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Airbnb Focuses on Southeast Asia, Expands into Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia
While you were sitting in your room doing nothing the past couple of months, Airbnb was busy renting your room to other people, because that’s what they do. And although the company has been a bit...
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GREE Releases Mobile Chat Application in Selected Regions
The folks over on Techwave are pointing out this morning that Japanese mobile social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) has now joined the mobile chat application frenzy that has been so popular in Asia...
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Sina Weibo’s Hottest Topics and Most Popular Users of 2012
Oh yes, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: the time when everyone starts releasing end of year lists. And while most of them are about as compelling as lukewarm microwaved pizza, it’s always...
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Why Foxconn is Delaying its Indonesian Investment
Foxconn’s (LSE:HHPD; HKEX:2038; TPE:2354) plan for building a massive manufacturing plant in Indonesia is being delayed for around three to six months according to Indonesia’s industry minister, M.S....
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Nokia No Longer King of Mobile as Samsung Set to Ship More in 2012
Samsung Galaxy S3, Docomo’s Tokyo launch According to forecasted numbers from analysts at iSuppli, 2012 will see Korean manufacturer Samsung (005930:KS) took the lead in the mobile manufacturing race....
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GREE Messenger is Developed with GREE-Invested Company eBuddy
GREE’s investment in eBuddy hasn’t gotten much press attention compared to its other acquisitions. But within our newsroom we suspected GREE’s long-term strategy has got something to do with...
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The Top 10 Chinese Searches on Baidu in 2012 (Hint: There’s a Lot About...
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) loves lists as much as the next human, so the leading Chinese search engine has compiled the top ten searches for hot news topics of the year. The ten on the list [1] show that...
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Street Directory Map App Takes You to the Right Place
After the dismal launch of the Apple Maps app, I knew I needed an alternative. I had been using Google Maps prior to the roll-out of iOS 6 and decided to try something new – a mapping service that I...
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Airbnb Completes its Southeast Asian Adventure with Launch in the Philippines
We noted earlier that US-based holiday home rentals platform Airbnb had expanded into three countries in Southeast Asia – and now the site has rounded out its venture into the region by launching for...
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As Chat App Wars Intensify, KakaoTalk Makes a Push in Japan
Recently we’ve written much about the success of NHN Japan’s Line, both in its home market and abroad. The chat platformed has been used very effectively to distribute the companies apps, its games in...
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Xiaomi Teases Phone Launch in Hong Kong
China’s young phone-maker Xiaomi has teased a possible expansion into Hong Kong. That’s what’s implied in a tweet from the official @XiaomiChina Twitter account, which just said: “Xiaomi is going to...
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Zoota: Yet Another Player in Vietnam’s Online Social Battlefield
via zoota.vn Social networks are a growing battlefield in Vietnam. As noted by Nguyen Huy of Mimo.vn in a recent chat with us, the platforms are fragmented. This is a salient observation as social...
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Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei Talks Security
There are lots of questions about Huawei; questions like “Why does the CCP have an office in your headquarters?” or “Why are several countries investigating you?” or “You did what in Iran?” But the...
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I Just Played North Korea’s First Computer Game: Pyongyang Racer
We don’t get to write an awful lot about North Korea here on Tech in Asia because, well, they don’t produce a lot of tech. So you can imagine how excited I was when I came across this post on Beijing...
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Are Schools Holding Back Chinese Web Innovators?
As someone who spent some time at a Chinese college myself, I was interested today to run across this weibo post written by Youmi founder Wang Lifen (pictured) about the restrictive internet at many...
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What Are the Biggest Challenges of B2C Marketing in China?
This question originally appeared on Quora, and the answer that follows was provided by Ashton Lee, Grows China Businesses, @mrashtonlee. Ashton Lee, Grows China Businesses, @mrashtonlee Good question,...
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Tencent: Our Video Site is Now China’s Biggest, Ready to Charge for Hollywood...
In an all-too-rare instance of web companies and content providers teaming up to give users exactly what they want, China’s video sites are currently thriving, packed full of legit and fully licensed...
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Cygames’ Rage of Bahamut Surpasses 10 Million Users Worldwide
Japanese gaming publisher Cygames has announced that its hit mobile social game Rage of Bahamut has surpassed the milestone of 10 million registered users worldwide. This title has been the biggest...
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