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Xiaomi’s MIUI Android Skin Celebrates Having 10 Million Users
The new MIUI Love theme running an a Nexus S. It’s not just buyers of the China-made Xiaomi phones – of which there were over seven million in 2012 – who get to use its pretty Android interface. That’s...
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Vietnam’s Top Women’s Online Community Gets an iPhone App
Not long after our interview with James Vuong the CEO of the community-sourced project Project Lana, whose mission is to “deliver happiness to women,” has just released an iPhone app for its users....
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Google Appoints New Asia-Pacific Boss
Image: Smartcompany.com.au Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Karim Temsamani has been busy in the past few years, moving from being Google’s Australia chief to running the mobile business and mobile ads strategy...
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Playmoolah Launches ‘Moolah It’ App to Educate Children on Smart Money...
For parents, what do you do when you want to educate your children on the importance of smart money management? Singapore-based startup Playmoolah thinks it has the answer, and has just launched its...
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Baidu Launches PC Security Suite Aimed at Southeast Asia
It’s no secret that there’s not a lot of love lost between Baidu and Qihoo 360. After Qihoo 360, a security company, launched its search engine, it seemed likely that sooner or later Baidu might try to...
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China Hits 88% Broadband Coverage in Villages
A village school in China. I’m guessing there aren’t any computers in there. 2012 was a big year for mobile and broadband growth, but especially in the realm of technology, it’s easy to forget that...
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Rakuten’s Play.com Shuts Down its Direct Retail Business in the UK
From the BBC, via The Next Web: Online retailer Play.com is to shut down its retail business to become a marketplace-only, from March. The Jersey-based firm blamed the move on the ending of Low Value...
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Sina Weibo Launched an English Web Interface, But Why So Little So Late?
Yesterday we discovered that Sina Weibo appeared to have rolled out a partial English-language interface, a revelation that Sina later confirmed to us. That’s great, and it has been a long time...
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Bangkok Game Studio Releases ‘Lost Cubes,’ A Fun Puzzler for iPhone
Thailand-based game studio Pocket Playlab has recently released a fun puzzle game for iPhone called Lost Cubes. The folks over at Kotaku rightfully points out that the title is pretty much a clone of...
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LinkedIn Reaches 200 Million Users, Indonesia is the Fastest Growing Asian...
LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) announced yesterday that it has reached the 200 million user milestone. And to mark the occasion, Linkedin released an infographic illustrating some insights about the company’s...
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IDG Brings Series A Funding to a Unique, Discounts-Oriented Chinese Shopping...
With China’s e-commerce market consisting of so many sites, the rather unique Mizhe.com is making a business out of being an online shopping guide that offers discounts for shoppers on top Chinese...
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Gimmie Funding! Singapore-based Loyalty Service Raises $520,000 for Asia...
Singapore-based loyalty service provider Gimmie has announced that it has received S$639,000 (about US$520,000) from various investors, led by WaveMaker Labs in partnership with the Singapore National...
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DeNA Gets a Playful Rebranding, Plans to Release Social Music App in Japan
Recently we looked back on what was a pretty busy year for Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432). The internet and social games company has expanded aggressively both at home and abroad. And today the company...
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Indonesian Police Investigating Baby-for-Sale Listing on Shopping Website
Credit: Gawker.com An unfortunate incident marred Indonesian e-commerce site Tokobagus during New Year’s Eve when someone tried selling a baby on the online shopping website. While the post was taken...
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Report: Apple’s Tim Cook Visited China Mobile HQ This Morning [UPDATE:...
Tim Cook spotted yesterday at an Apple reseller’s store in Beijing. (Image: @yang_0909 on Sina Weibo) Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Tim Cook arrived in Beijing two days ago for yet another trip to China, but...
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Indonesian Digital Media Group SalingSilang is Shutting Down its Business
Indonesian digital media group SalingSilang made an announcement yesterday that it is going to close down. This applies to SalingSilang’s family of products as well, including social media analytics...
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NTT Docomo To Sell New Smartphone Specifically for Pre-Teens
Japanese mobile carrier NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) announced today that it will soon be accepting preorders for a new model of smartphone that specifically targets the pre-teen demographic. The Android 4.0...
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KMS: Leading a Promising Vietnamese Outsourcing Company
Viet Hung with one of his teams. He’s pictured in the center. | photo via hca.org.vn With the New York Times writing an article about KMS, one of Vietnam’s most promising software outsourcing companies...
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As Alibaba Gets More Social, Rumors Swirl of Acquisition of Music Site Xiami
The Xiami Radio and Xiami Music apps. Just a few hours after Alibaba boss Jack Ma detailed the restructuring of the e-commerce giant into 25 more nimble divisions, a rumor emerges that the company has...
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Uh Oh! Indonesia’s President Dissed as His Website Gets Hacked
Credit: Seruu.com Yesterday, the website of Indonesia’s president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, at presidensby.info, got hacked by an Indonesia-based hacker group that calls itself the Jember Hacker Team...
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