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IMII Brings Intensive Digital Marketing Training to Indonesia
The UK-based digital marketing and e-commerce community EConsultancy, together with Indonesia-based digital marketing company Techad 1, wants to grow Indonesia’s marketing talents through a local...
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Launchpad is a Very Big Co-working Space for Startups in Bangkok
Launchpad’s colorful work space makes everyone happy. Maybe I haven’t been to too many co-working spaces, but Launchpad in Bangkok is kind of impressive. I haven’t seen any co-working spaces of such a...
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High Tech Hangers Make Shopping More Stimulating for Men in Japan
Videos are triggered on screens above when you take a hanger from the rack The folks at Japan’s TeamLab are a pretty creative bunch. I first met up with them at a Tokyo Maker fair a few years back,...
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Apple’s Tim Cook is Back in Beijing, Just Met China’s Tech Minister
Back in town: Apple’s Tim Cook today met with China’s tech minister, Miao Wei. (Image: Xinhua) Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook arrived in Beijing earlier today where he got the full...
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Indosat Offering Generous Phone Credit Bonus Program
Indonesian telecom Indosat launched a promotional program today called “7 Nights 7 Days”. For a limited time this will give users bonus credits if they top up their phone credit from the minimum amount...
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China Considers Plan to Allow Internet Companies to Become Virtual Telecom...
China’s telecom marketplace is currently dominated by three state-owned behemoths: China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. But that may not be true for too much longer. China’s Ministry of...
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Can Innovation Save China’s Games Industry?
Game copying can be a big problem in China. Last year, we wrote about a few instances in which Chinese developers copied Western games, but the vast majority of the copying is Chinese developers...
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Kotagames and XL Axiata Launch Developer Network Focused on Web Games
Yesterday, Indonesian telco XL Axiata (EXCL:IJ) and gaming platform Kotagames launched a program called the XL Developer Network. The program is meant to help grow the local game developer ecosystem,...
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Exteen, The WordPress of Thailand, Generates 30 Million Monthly Pageviews
Exteen is Thailand’s most popular content management system (CMS) for bloggers; it’s like the WordPress of Thailand. Or at least that is what founders Patinya Sangiamchit and Teepagorn...
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Japan’s Line Chat App Wants to Reach 300 Million Users in 2013
Line advertised on a train in Taiwan It was a pretty big year for NHN Japan and its Line chat application in 2012. And according to a Taiwanese news report, the company plans to be equally ambitious...
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Wongnai.com Shows Impressive Growth, Upcoming New Features
It has been five months since we reported on Thailand’s online restaurant review site and mobile app service Wongnai.com (translated literally as ‘Insider’) , and during our trip to Thailand, we had...
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China Gets New Chinese Domain Extensions Such as ‘.iloveyou’
Remember back when the internet was basically just .com and .org, and maybe a little .edu? Those were the days. There are now far more offerings for those little domain name endings, which are called...
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InMobi Puts Mobile Ads into Context With Acquisition of Overlay Media
It’s been a while since we heard from India-based mobile ad platform InMobi, but now we’re told that the company has acquired Britain’s Overlay Media, a data-driven specialist in context aware...
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Ford Makes a Play for Chinese Drivers with In-Car Weibo App
photo: autoblog.com While we’re not attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we are paying close attention to news coming out of the annual tech event. Among all the headlines, American...
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Finally, China’s Sina Weibo Rolls Out Partial English Interface [UPDATE: Sina...
Sina Weibo has over 400 million registered users, though it’s hard to know how many of those are overseas. Nonetheless, we’ve noticed today that the Twitter-esque Weibo has just rolled out a partial...
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Click and Send: New Sukamart Offers to Deliver Your Groceries in Indonesia
Today, Sumisho E-Commerce Indonesia, a joint venture between Japan-based Sumitomo Corporation and Sumitomo Indonesia, officially launched its Indonesian grocery e-commerce website Sukamart.com (“suka”...
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Blackberry 10’s Arrival in Indonesia Will be Delayed
Blackberry 10′s arrival in Indonesia will be delayed because of a new import regulation which has come in effect this year. Detik cites Erik Meijer, the director and CCO of Indonesian telecom Indosat...
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Reuters: Chinese IPOs Frozen Until March as Regulators Demand Tougher Checks
After the US SEC bombshell last month about the China affiliates of each of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms failing to hand over audit papers, Chinese authorities (namely the CSRC) will tighten up...
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India’s Online Restaurant Guide Zomato Expands to London
India’s popular online food and restaurant guide, Zomato, has announced that it is expanding to include a section for London, England. The service subsequently has coverage of popular food spots in 18...
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Xiaomi: 7.19 Million Phones Sold in 2012, Considering North America Launch in...
Xiaomi’s Mi2 phone, its flagship model. China’s startup phone-maker Xiaomi seems to have arrived on the scene at the perfect time – just when Android is seriously taking off in China, and when hardware...
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