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Mobile Gaming Company GREE Apologizes for Charging Minors Beyond Spending Limits
Mobile social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) has issued an announcement in Japanese today apologizing that some minors were charged beyond the spending limits that the company put in place last April....
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Among China’s Airbnb Clones, It’s a Battle Between Ants and Little Piggies
And this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way to series A funding. Our first two bits of Chinese startup funding news of 2013 could not have gone to companies with weirder names. Beijing-based...
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Brad Pitt is Banned from China, But That’s Hasn’t Stopped Him Joining Sina...
All the ladies who make up Sina Weibo’s 400 million registered users take note: Brad Pitt has just joined Weibo. The movie star’s verified account (here) saw its first post at noon today: It is the...
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China’s Top Daily Deals Site Sees $3.3 Billion in Sales in 2012
After the initial kerfuffle over Groupon clones in China a couple of years ago, the daily deals sector in the country ended up being dominated by a familiar name: Taobao. With 34 percent market share...
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Vietnamese Complain As Chinese 3G Comes to Disputed Spratly Islands
In the ongoing dispute over the Spratly Islands claimed by China and Vietnam, the latest development is that China is opening up 3G services on the islands, not only to Chinese soldiers but also for...
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Indonesia’s ‘Infectonator 2’ Clinches Major Game of the Year Award
Indonesian made game Infectonator 2 won online gaming platform Armor Games’ Game of the Year award on Saturday, beating Australian-made The Last Stand – Dead Zone in the final head-to-head contest....
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China Eagerly Buying Up Bluetooth Headsets After Cell Phone Driving Ban
Photo: pchome.net I was surprised to hear that among a few new traffic safety laws to go into place in China as of January 1st, 2013, was a ban on using cell phones will driving. And according to a few...
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Here’s How Search Engines are Performing in China at the End of 2012
Google had to get used to being in fourth place in China in 2012. 2012 was a year of disruption, frustration, and lost users for search engines operating in China – the emotion depends upon which of...
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US Gadget-Maker Vizio Looks to China with New Android Smartphones
The Verge is in Las Vegas for CES where it has just spotted two new Android-powered smartphones from the US gadget-maker Vizio. The impressive-looking pair is headed to the Chinese market, but there’s...
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Sina Weibo Worker Says Government is Controlling Weibo Censorship, But Sina...
The wonderful folks over at Global Voices Online have made a fascinating discovery on weibo: a long weibo post from a user who claims to be an employee in Sina Weibo’s censorship division. It is...
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China’s Train Ticket Site Actually Works, But It is Still Getting Sued
Tickets for this are finally easy to get. (via Flickriver.com) I have written a lot of bad things about China’s Railway Ministry and its 12306 ticket e-commerce site, so you may never have expected to...
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Keen to Learn Silicon Valley’s Best Practices? Attend Lean UX Week Singapore...
As a startup founder, what do you know about building a good user experience? We all know how important our customers are, but before we can attract customers we need to know how to identify who they...
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Vancl Building $158 Million New Headquarters in Tianjin
The last we heard from e-commerce platform Vancl, the company was in the middle of major staff cuts, and there were also staff cuts earlier in the year. But all that cutting hasn’t stopped Vancl from...
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In the Smartphone Space, Huawei Hopes Bigger is Better
I really hope that 2013 is not the year that we see the ever so ridiculous term ‘phablet’ go mainstream. But if mobile companies continue to push out 5-inch and 6-inch handsets this year, we might be...
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New PIP Camera App and its Wacky Special Effects Hit 2.5 Million iPhone...
Your blogger and his cat get the PIP Camera treatment. If you’ve seen your friends taking some wacky photos of themselves recently – as if they’re trapped in a glass, or set as a laptop’s wallpaper –...
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8villages Empowers Farmers Using Mobile Tech, Eyes Expansion in 2013
Southeast Asian startup 8villages, a mobile social network for smallhold farmers, started in Indonesia in January 2012 as a new way for farmers to buy and sell using a mobile device. Since then it has...
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Japanese Social Game Publisher Cygames Has Over 20 Million Total Users
Japanese game developer Cygames (a CyberAgent subsidiary) has announced today that its social games portfolio has amassed more than 20 million registered users since the company came into being back...
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Chinese Social Network Douban Rolls Out Paid Music Streaming Subscriptions
The Douban.fm app for iPad. We recently wrote about how 2013 was likely to be the year that China faced up to paid music subscriptions. And, lo and behold, yesterday Douban.com, China’s top...
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How Women Create Their Own Online Marketplace in Vietnam
In the battle for the Vietnamese e-commerce space, a unique online retailing model is being born out of an unexpected place. I sat down with James Vuong, the CEO of Project Lana, to talk about the...
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Vietnam Spends $4.47 Billion on Mobile Phone Imports
With over 140 million cellphones in Vietnam, and an approximate population of 90 million, it’s no surprise that mobile phone imports in the country have seen a 70 percent year-on-year increase....
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