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10 Insane Cases of Censorship on Sina Weibo in 2012
It has been a doubleplusgood year for Sina Weibo in terms of doubling its registered user count to 400 million. But, as China’s hottest Twiitery, real-time social medium, Weibo has once again been a...
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E-Commerce in Vietnam: Goodbye Barriers [Part 2]
Hung Huynh, associate at IDG Ventures Vietnam Last week, I thrashed Vietnam’s e-commerce market and outlined the many barriers it faces. But Vietnam’s a market full of gossip and rumors so it’s always...
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Xiaomi: 6.5 Million Phones Sold So Far
Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi has only been in the hardware business for only about a year and a half, but it has made a big impact in that time. And now we have new numbers that show how much of a dent...
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Domestic Chinese Smartphones Attract Praise But Not Profits
We here at Tech in Asia have been very impressed with some of the low-cost smartphones coming out of China over the past year, and we’re not the only ones. But as Communication Information News...
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UC Web CEO Says ‘IPOs Are Like Marriage, Best Not To Marry Too Early’
UC Web is one of the few Chinese companies that has seemed immune to the “brand China” effect and has had impressive success in its overseas expansion. Most recently, the company’s mobile browser hit...
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KakaoTalk Introduces Telkomsel Carrier Billing and Christmas Items
Korean-made chat app KakaoTalk is keeping quite busy this Christmas holiday, introducing two new features on its app: a carrier billing partnership with Indonesian telco Telkomsel and Christmas-themed...
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How to Make Sense of KPIs
It’s funny how KPIs can become so confusing when it comes to measuring performance on an individual level. Say for example, $10 million could be clear as an organization sales target. But in contrast,...
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Why 2013 Will Be the Worst Year Ever for China Tech
Amidst all the 2012 in review madness, I thought it might be fun to turn our eyes to the future for a moment and make some predictions about what’s coming in 2013. Well, “fun” is a relative term. Call...
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Apple Announces 2013 ‘Lucky Bag’ Sales for 7 Stores in Japan
While it’s still Christmas Day in the Western hemisphere, those of us here in Asia are waking up on Boxing Day right now, and that likely means that we’re also seeing the first post-Christmas online...
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Kreavi Appeals to Noble Hearts this Holiday Season With Charity Project
While the holiday season has arrived for many of us, one Indonesian startup decided to tap into the holiday spirit by doing a charity campaign. That startup is Indonesian creative network Kreavi.com....
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Understanding DeNA and Mobage: A Graphical Overview
As the Tokyo editor for TechInAsia, one of the biggest tech players I’ve had to watch over the past year has been DeNA (TYO:2432), as the company has had a pretty successful year both at home and...
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Two Chinese Search Engines with Siri Envy Launch Their Own Voice Assistants
When you have a mobile voice assistant – like Apple’s Siri or Google Now – you don’t need to do anything so laborious as visit a search engine homepage and tap in some words. Chinese search engines...
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Angel’s Gate Opens Auditions for Season 2
Interactive.sg has officially launched its second season auditions for the business reality TV series, The Angel’s Gate. The show, which we have mentioned in the past, focuses on business and...
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Indonesian Game Dev Gets Unexpected Props from Korean Star PSY
The left picture is Icon Pop Quiz’s logo, the right picture is the avatar PSY’s using Korean artist PSY, who just recently hit the one billion mark for his Gangnam Style video on YouTube, is using an...
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Payroll Hero Chosen as IT Startup of the Year in the Philippines
Payroll Hero team on its team retreat If you attended our Startup Asia Jakarta event this past year, you no doubt remember Philippines-based startup Payroll Hero which was the runner-up for our Startup...
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Telkom’s e-Hotel Service Puts Bandung Hotels in the Cloud
Indonesia’s Telkom Business Service Division (DBS) plans to implement its e-Hotel back-end service in all Bandung hotels next year. Detik cites a DBS representative yesterday as saying that the...
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Amid Tensions Between China and Vietnam, Video Games Get Territorial
Chinese culture dazzles Vietnam only for so long. | via congnghe.nld.com.vn Island disputes have been a rumbling problem for China in the past few years. The latest tiff with Japan, and ongoing...
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Powered by Android, China Smartphone Sales to Hit 189 Million in 2012 [REPORT]
Taiwan’s Digitimes Research has a new report out looking at the smartphone landscape in mainland China. It states that sales of smartphones in China – across all platforms, like iPhone and Android –...
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Japanese Chat App ‘Line’ Does Gangnam Style
NHN Japan’s animated rendition of Gangnam Style Korean pop star PSY, who recently hit a billion views on YouTube, is being featured by Japanese chat application ‘Line’ in a fun promotional video. The...
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Motorola Tops a Nightmare Year with Closure of its Chinese App Store [UPDATED]
Time to uninstall? Motorola’s Shop4Apps for China. It’s been a nightmare year for phone-maker Motorola (NASDAQ:GOOG), particularly in China. And now this rough year is ending on even more of a downer...
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