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360Buy to Snap Up $300+ Million Worth of Nokia Phones in 2013, Plans Huge...
Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) is having quite a disastrous time in China of late but it’s not going down without a fight. The Finnish phone-maker has just signed a procurement deal with 360Buy, China’s...
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GREE and Yahoo Japan to Co-Sponsor Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid
GREE (TYO:3632) and Yahoo Japan (TYO:4689) have announced today that the companies will co-sponsor Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic bid. Beginning on December 26, both companies will roll out advertising in...
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Xiaomi’s Sales Experiment on Sina Weibo Yields 1.3 Million Reservations For...
Remember that interesting little social commerce experiment earlier this week in which Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi sold phones via Sina Weibo? Well, that two-day promotion has now ended, and Xiaomi has...
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With Burpple as Last Investment, Neoteny Labs Singapore is now Silicon Straits
Three years and 24 investments later (with foodie app Burpple being the most recent), Neoteny Labs’ $5 million fund will stop making new investments and focus on helping its portfolio companies grow....
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Welcome to Purgatory: Sina Weibo Now Delaying Mentions of ‘Sensitive’ Words...
Users of Sina Weibo that mention things somewhat more controversial than cats or food might find their posts being delayed – by seven whole days. The Twitter-like Sina Weibo is supposed to be a...
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Gaming Monetization Startup Sogamo Raises US$500,000 from IncuVest
Social game developers would probably understand the pain, blood, and sweat when it comes to new game development. And there are also other things to be concerned about after you develop new titles:...
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Chat App Nimbuzz Gets Generous with Christmas Giveaway Competition
India-based chat app Nimbuzz is holding a competition where users have to name Hollywood or Bollywood movie titles by talking with a Santa ‘chat buddy.’ The competition runs until December 27th and...
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Indonesian-Made Christmas Sing-Along App Now on Sale
Christmas is only four days away and to help celebrate the holiday season, Indonesian developer Hompimplay has put its premium version of Jolly Jingle iOS app for sale at a 30 percent discount through...
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Game Over for Zynga Japan: Tokyo Office to Close January 31
Zynga Japan will be closing down its Tokyo office at the end of January, according to notices posted on its website. We had a foreshadowing that this would happen back in October when Zynga...
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Aiming at Indonesia and Beyond, WeChat Launches Beta BlackBerry App
We know that the China-made messaging app WeChat has global ambitions, and that’s made even more clear today with the launch of a beta version of WeChat for BlackBerry. Since pretty much no-one in...
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MOOCs Won’t Replace Traditional Education. But They Don’t Have To
Image: Learni.st One of the bigger technology stories of the past year has been the emergence of MOOCs, or massive open online courses. Platforms like Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy offer courses on a...
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China Mobile Hits 7-Year Low in Monthly User Growth
Poor China Mobile. The 3G era has not been kind to the dominant telecom, mostly because the TD-SCDMA network it was allowed to run isn’t particularly popular with handset manufacturers or customers,...
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Tencent’s Weixin Could Be Headed For Trademark Dispute
Remember Apple’s trademark battle with Chinese company Proview, which registered the Chinese trademark for iPad? Well it looks like Tencent could be in for a trademark battle of its very own over...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Dec. 22]
Undeterred by an apocryphal apocalypse or the shortening days leading to the winter solstice, the tech world was alive and alight with plenty of news. These are what our bloggers – across five nations...
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8 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
We hope you guys have been having a great week so far and are all hyped up for the upcoming festive season! Here we have for you a compilation of all the startups in Asia we have covered this week....
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8 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that. So said the playwright Samuel Beckett in an apt observation for a week in which we were notably not wiped off the face of the earth. But he also said we’re...
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The Weibo Social Commerce Model that Twitter Should Copy
Sina Weibo is not making money. Not yet at least. But it may have found a way to do so, as we saw from last week’s Weibo social commerce test with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi. The manufacturer...
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GREE Quietly Releases NFL Shuffle Card Battle Game
Japanese mobile gaming company GREE (TYO:3632) has quietly pushed out an NFL-branded card battle game for iOS late last week called NFL Shuffle. This comes on the heels of a similar MLB title which...
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Indonesia’s ‘.id’ Domain Expected to be Southeast Asia’s Largest Next Year
The Management of Indonesian Internet Domain Name (PANDI) said on Friday that the number of registered Indonesian domain names (.id) has a good chance to become the largest top-level domain among...
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Human Camera ‘Touchy’ Wishes You Merry Christmas!
Readers may recall back in October when we featured new media artist Eric Siu and his amazing human camera prototype called ‘Touchy’. The concept involves Eric wearing a helmet-like camera, but with...
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