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Now China’s WeChat App is Censoring Its Users Globally
We’ve written a lot about the progress of the world’s biggest messaging app, the China-made WeChat, which is fast approaching 300 million registered users and enjoying some level of global success with...
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Rumor: Weibo Celebrities Like Kaifu Lee Questioned by Chinese Police
As the Southern Weekend incident continues to boil in the Chinese media, weibo celebrities like Innovation Works founder Kaifu Lee (25 million followers) and real estate magnate Ren Zhiqiang (13...
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24Quan Closes For Good
Chinese group buying site 24Quan, once in the country’s top five deals sites, has been in the rough for some time now, and it suspended operations back in October. So the following shouldn’t come as a...
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Chinese Internet Companies Should Stop Overseas Censorship
A few days ago, I wrote about a rant posted to Sina Weibo and spotted by Global Voices Online in which an alleged member of Sina’s censorship team explains the company’s censorship in part by saying...
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Baby Versus Zombie: Touchten Launches Cute Kill
Yesterday Indonesian game developer Touchten officially launched its first new game title of the year, called Cute Kill. Although there is no shortage of zombie apocalypse-themed games out there, this...
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British Retailer Marks and Spencer Launches Major E-Commerce Push in China
The Marks and Spencer homepage for China (background), and its new e-commerce store-front on Tmall. Marks and Spencer (LON:MKS) might have 12 brick-and-mortar stores in five Chinese cities already, but...
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Zendesk Celebrates 25,000 Users Worldwide, Enjoys Strong Asia Growth
Today cloud-based customer service solution provider Zendesk has announced that it now has more than 25,000 customers around the world. And the company is pointing out that over the next year it hopes...
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Russian Game Studio Pits Bees Against Bears on Bungees
If you enjoy slashy, swipy smartphones games like Cut the Rope and Fruit Ninja, you might also like a fun new iOS title from Russia’s Anton Roshchine Studio called To Bee or Not to Bear. The game pits...
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China’s Biggest Online Mall Now Wants to be Your Supermarket
You’ve long been able to buy pretty much anything on China’s Taobao, right down to a single tube of toothpaste. And now the huge C2C e-commerce site is going to make it easier to buy your groceries...
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Meet mRobo, the Vietnam-Made Gangnam-Dancing Robot That Wowed CES [VIDEO]
When you think of Vietnam, usually robots are the last thing that springs to mind. But, thanks to a little creation called mRobot, robots are exactly what Vietnam is becoming known for this week at...
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Mobile Service Disruption from Great Japan Earthquake Visualized
Mobile usage in Tokyo, visualized before and after the 3/11 earthquake When the tragic earthquake hit Japan back in March of 2011, mobile communications were severely disrupted in the affected regions,...
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What’s Hot, What’s Not: Mobile Advertising Trends in 2013!
Vikas Gulati spearheads business development at Vserv.mobi for South East Asia. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for driving key aspects of business – developers, publishers, and advertisers. He...
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Confirmed: China’s ZTE and TCL to Launch Firefox OS Phones This Year
The open-source Firefox OS The Inquirer has just confirmed with Mozilla, makers of the new Firefox OS, that China’s ZTE (HKG:0763; SHE:000063) and TCL (HKG:1070; SHE:000100) will launch Firefox-powered...
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Tencent Responds in Case of Apparent WeChat Censorship
The evidence. Yesterday we broke the story of how WeChat, the world’s biggest Whatsapp-style messaging app, was apparently censoring words that are deemed “sensitive” on the Chinese web right now. In...
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Indonesian Online Food Ordering Service Klik Eat Gets Japanese Investment
Indonesian online food ordering service Klik Eat announced yesterday that it has received investment from Japan-based company Yume no Machi Souzou Iinkai (2484: JASDAQ), which runs a large scale...
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Angel Investor Xu Xiaoping Calls for a Freer Chinese Internet
Like most of China’s big tech investment gurus, Xu Xiaoping is on Sina Weibo. And although fellow tech investor Kaifu Lee just spent some quality time with China’s State Security officers for...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Jan. 12]
This week was a blockbuster, with a series of explosive news stories out of China dominating the choices from six of our bloggers this week. Rick’s pick: Apple’s Tim Cook visits China Mobile HQ This...
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Phucking Phablets: Huawei’s New Giant Phone is the Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Seen
Chinese mobile handset maker Huawei announced some new products at this year’s CES that have been getting a lot of attention. At the center of it all is the Huawei Ascend Mate, a 6.1-inch screen...
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9 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Welcome back to another compilation of all the startups in Asia that we have covered this week. We had a couple of interesting startups from Thailand, as well as quite a few startups that have...
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10 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week saw a torrent of Chinese social media news, which dominates the line-up you see here. We broke the stories behind two major developments – one each for Tencent’s WeChat and Sina Weibo – and...
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