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What Vietnamese Startups Should Do To Win in 2013
With 2013 just days away, startups in Vietnam are looking at an online tropical jungle: e-commerce battlefields, tons of new chat apps, fragmented mobile spaces, and exponentially growing social media....
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China’s New Internet Law Legalizes Deletion of “Illegal” Content, Bad News...
China’s tightened internet controls were passed into law earlier today. As well as requiring broadband and mobile internet providers to have full ‘real name’ details of their customers (which pretty...
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Friendster Gives Dating Another Try
Earlier this month, Malaysian based social-network-turned-social–gaming-website Friendster.com launched new dating features, allowing people to browse and hook up with potential partners online. Used...
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Is 4G Finally Coming to China in 2013?
In news that has got to be making some of the folks at China Mobile drool with anticipation, an MIIT report presented at a recent conference suggests that the regulatory agency may be planning to...
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Vietnam Bans Popular Chinese Game Over Territorial Dispute
Giant Interactive’s MMORPG Long Journey 2 has seen great success in China, but its expansion into Vietnam came to a rapid halt when Vietnamese operator Vinagame shut down the game because it contains...
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E-commerce Startup Kumami Sells Imported Kids’ Products to Worried Chinese...
The Kumami team Being a mother (or father) in China is not an easy thing these days. Numerous scandals involving everything from milk powder to clothing and toys have led many parents to believe...
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Christmas came and went this week, but was China’s internet naughty or nice? We’ll leave that up to you to decide, but here’s what was happening in China tech while you were unwrapping presents (or...
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South Korean Government Wants to Block Porn, Swear Words and Cyber-Bullying...
Let’s file this one under the ‘good luck with that’ tag: the South Korean government has plans to implement the blocking of “illegal [and] harmful information” sent over teenagers’ smartphones. That...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Dec. 29]
This week, some of us celebrated Christmas. But does the news give a crap about Christmas? It does not. It just rolls on, and this week was a doozie for Asian tech news, so while you’re taking down...
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7 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
It’s just two more days until we start a brand new exciting year! But before we do, we have for you a compilation of all the Asian startups we have covered this week. For tips and stories suggestions,...
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TechInAsia: A Look Back At 2012, With An Eye On Even Better Things to Come
2011 was the year when we first established our core team, and building on top of that, 2012 has been a period of strong growth. This year saw us moving out of our comfort zone to running conferences,...
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7 Superb New Apps from China in 2012
With smartphone sales in China up 199 percent this year, all those phone owners will be keen to snap up some fun apps. And Chinese developers didn’t have much time for cigarette and coffee breaks all...
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Crazy Japanese Tower Defense Game ‘Battle Cats’ Invades Android Platform
One of my favorite games for all of 2012 was the endlessly wacky Battle Cats from Japanese game developer Ponos. I’ve been enjoying it on iOS ever since it was released back in November. But I’m...
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Why the Mobile Messaging War Will Be Even More Intense in 2013
There are so many mobile messaging apps coming out of Asia – KakaoTalk, WeChat, Comm, GREE Messenger, Line, Cubie, and the list goes on. It’s getting pretty crowded. But I expect more local mobile...
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Apple’s Annual Lucky Bag Sale Delivers for Japanese Fanboys
Photo from Appbank.net While Christmas has come and gone for most of us, here in Japan there was quite a bit of excitement this morning as Apple held its annual ‘Lucky Bag’ sale at seven retail stores...
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China’s Most Notorious Pirate Search Engine Finally Shuts Down
The Gougou.com page right now with its closure notice. It was just a few weeks ago that Gougou.com, China’s most notorious pirate content search engine, was added to the U.S. Trade Representative’s...
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Report: Apple to Open Indonesia Office This Year
Kompas recently reported that Apple has appointed a person to be the company’s head of marketing for Indonesia. This is the latest update on Apple’s expansion program for the country, which looks set...
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How Has Apple Not Killed This? Chinese Startup Enables iOS App Piracy Without...
With the recent closure of the iOS jailbreak app Installous, the mischievous hive-mind of the web has been looking for an alternative way of running pirated apps. And you won’t be too surprised to...
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GREE’s 2012 Mobile Gaming Adventure [Timeline]
Last week we took a retrospective look at Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432), a company that surprised a lot of people in the past year, particularly with its hit title Rage of Bahamut....
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It’s the End of a Tiny Era as Asus Quits Making Netbooks
Those tiny-screened, under-powered netbooks were supposed to be the next big thing in personal computing. But the short-lived era of slightly shrunken laptops seems to be over, with Taiwan’s Asus...
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