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Singaporean Fashion Network Clozette Ties Up with Local Portal InSing
insing.clozette.co Singapore-based online fashion network Clozette is not wasting any time getting things rolling in 2013, today announcing a partnership with inSing, a subsidiary of SingTel Digital...
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Tokyo and Seoul Dominate Twitter on New Year’s Eve
While many people were busy tweeting their new year’s messages and wishes yesterday at midnight, the social network Twitter was also busy keeping track of all those messages. Yesterday the company...
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This Chinese Startup Wants to Bring You a 3D-Printed, Smartphone-Controlled...
We don’t find hardware startups in China as often as we’d like – but we’ve stumbled across what looks like the coolest we’ve ever seen. The team of tinkerers and ‘makers’ behind AngelEyes is prepping...
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Chinese Trains Now Capable of Time Travel, Apparently
China’s Railway Ministry operates the country’s only official online ticket purchasing platform, but nearly a year into service, 12306 is as much a source of jokes and frustration as it is actual...
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How To Juggle Being a Student and an Entrepreneur
I have met recently with a number of student entrepreneurs, and I heard one question over and over again: how do you juggle being a student and being an entrepreneur? That question was one which I...
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Singapore Meetup: 10 Mobile App Marketing Tips
Happy 2013! We recently announced our very first TechinAsia Meetup, which will take place in Jakarta (it’s already sold out, by the way!). And now, friends in Singapore can look forward to their turn...
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Mobile Games Developer War 4: The Winners
Indonesian developer Agate Studio, Nokia Indonesia, and Universitas Indonesia’s computer faculty have wrapped up their game development competition for the Symbian S40 platform called Mobile Games...
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Chinese City Launches Mobile Taxi App for Easy Cab Pickups
Booking a cab in China used to require making a phone call. Actually, in most cities, it still does. But if a new mobile initiative in Chongqing catches on, smartphone users nationwide could soon be...
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Berrybenka Receives Series A Investment from GREE Ventures
Indonesian women’s fashion e-commerce site Berrybenka.com kicks off the new year by announcing that the company has raised series A investment from Japan’s GREE Ventures. The amount of money raised...
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Sina Weibo Breaks New Record for User Activity Over New Year’s Eve
We already know that Asia is big into microblogging the New Year, with Tokyo and Seoul dominating Twitter over the holiday. But China’s home-grown microblogging service Sina Weibo got in on the fun,...
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2012 Was a Year of Crazy Growth for Japanese Chat App Line
NHN Japan had a pretty crazy year in 2012. In retrospect, things really got busy for the company and its wildly successful chat app Line after it decided to get into the gaming business. But overall,...
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From Foreplay to Foursquare: China’s Top Dating App Toys With Local Check-Ins
What do you do when your young app has 20 million users and you need a path towards monetization? Go local! That’s the approach that will be taken by Momo, China’s hottest flirting app, as revealed by...
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E-Commerce in Vietnam: The Big Players for 2013 [Part 3]
In the first two parts of this Vietnam e-commerce series, I looked at the obstacles, and then the potential. So now let’s look at the players. This list contains some of the major companies, but I...
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4 Golden Rules to Monetize Your Apps
David is the general manager of developer business for vserv.mobi and heads mobile application developer partnerships across Southeast Asia. Vserv’s AppWrapper solution offers developers a simple one...
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12 Startup Events to Check Out in January in Hong Kong
2013 is starting with a bang and a flurry of startup events in Hong Hong. The newest StartupsHK newsletter details the talks, meetups, and pitching events that local entrepreneurs might like to check...
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Chinese E-Tailer Enters into $160 Million Partnership to Cater to ‘Little...
With a nation full of “little emperors” needing clothing and pampering, specialist babycare e-commerce sites are huge business on the Chinese web. And that’s motivation enough for retailer Gome...
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Kleii, A Vietnamese Cloud Service Goes Global
I recently sat down with Nguyen Tuan Son, co-founder and CEO of Kleii, a cloud storage service that launched just six months ago. He was proud to announce that within that time period, Kleii has...
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Study: Actually Only About 20,000 Twitter Users in China [INFOGRAPHIC]
Remember that bizarre kerfuffle over the dubious stats showing that China had tens of millions of Twitter users (the one on which we called bullshit)? Well, now there’s a much more plausible study of...
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3D Printing Photo Studio Pops up in Xi’an, China
The folks over at Shanghaiist point out a very cool 3D photo printing studio which is located in the Chinese city of Xi’an. In total, the process takes 15 minutes to scan the customer’s body, and then...
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Mobile App Qender Helps Users to Queue Virtually
Qender (pronounced as Ken-der) allows businesses to offer a virtual queue so users do not have to be physically present at a clinic or restaurant to stay in queue. Rather, it allows users to save...
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