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Tiki: Aspiring to be the Amazon of Vietnam
Ask anyone in Vietnam who the popular online bookstores are in the country and chances are they will point you to Tiki.vn. The e-commerce startup was founded in 2010 by Son Tran. Today Tiki.vn not...
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Duke University Takes to Sina Weibo to Connect with Potential Students
We’ve written much in the past about how individuals and organizations outside of China are making use of Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo microblogging platform in order to reach Chinese speaking netizens....
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StartupKita Lets Indonesian Startup Founders Discuss Key Business Challenges
Although IT is one of the hottest industries in Indonesia, there are a lot of challenges posed within that field. So much so that even SalingSilang, one of the most well known startups in the country,...
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Here’s a Heatmap of WeChat Users Around the World
The WeChat messaging app seems to be China’s biggest social media export to date. But, apart from Tencent telling us that the “focus is Asia,” no one knows where WeChat is proving popular. Keen to...
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Singapore’s Tabsquare Raises Over $480,000 to Further Fund e-Menu System
Singapore-based e-menu startup Tabsquare has announced today that it has raised S$589,000 (or about $480,000) in funding from local incubator Get2Volume, along with co-funding from Singapore’s...
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China’s Baidu Pushes Into Africa and Middle East With New Mobile Browser
Some pre-set categories and sites in the new Baidu mobile browser for Middle East and north Africa. Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has teamed up with mobile telco Orange (NYSE:FTE) to bring...
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6 HTC Phones Go in Sale Today in Myanmar
HTC’s input method editor (keyboard) for Burmese. The busily reforming nation of Myanmar has the lowest rate of mobile penetration in Asia, but HTC (TPE:2498) hopes to be at the forefront of changing...
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Tiket Empowers Non-Techies to Become Travel Agents
Indonesian ticket booking platform Tiket recently opened its offline agent reseller program to expand its market reach even further with the help of people who want to become travel agents but may not...
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Autonavi’s Maps Apps Guide Over 100 Million Users in China
Regular readers will recall that Autonavi (NASDAQ:AMAP) makes the most popular mobile maps apps in China – way ahead of the rather lost Google Maps. Today Autonavi has announced that its maps apps...
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LG Nexus 4 Launched in Indonesia with 1,000 Phones Sold During Pre-Orders
The LG-made Nexus 4, Google’s flagship handset, was officially launched on Saturday at the Grand Indonesia mall. As many as 1,000 phones were sold during the pre-order period, which started one week...
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Google’s Eric Schmidt Drops in on Beijing, Reminds Chinese Devs that Android...
(Images: QQ Tech) Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Eric Schmidt dropped into the GeekPark conference in Beijing earlier today where, in a panel discussion, he reminded the assembled developers that Android is...
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CityOffers App Takes Daily Deals Mobile in Vietnam
E-commerce in Vietnam isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. With daily deals leading the trend in 2012, this year is set to be one where smartphones dominate. CityOffers fits right into this new...
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Hatch.vn Is Hatching New Startups in Hanoi
Pictured here is the Hatch.vn founding team. Dat is second on the right. Hatch.vn, Hanoi’s newest incubator, has finally unveiled its website and is gearing up for its first event, a weekly coffee talk...
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Baidu Invests in Kingsoft, Moves Into Web Security, Qihoo’s CEO Calls it a...
If anyone had any doubt there was bad blood between Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) and Qihoo 360, here’s some more evidence to convince you: after its recent move into security software in Southeast Asia, Baidu...
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Singapore-based DropMyEmail Partners with GMO Cloud for Japan Expansion
DropMyEmail, a Singapore-based startup providing cloud solutions for website and email backup, has announced a partnership with GMO Cloud, the cloud solution arm of one of Japan’s largest hosting...
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17Startup’s 2012 Report Reveals Trends in Chinese Startup Scene
2012 is over, and it was quite an interesting year for startups. Chinese-language startup database 17startup.com has put together quite a lengthy report on the year in startups based on its very...
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Singapore Geek Girls Reach Out to More Women Entrepreneurs
Over here at Tech in Asia, we’re greatly encouraged by the number of females joining the technology and startup scene. We’re even more appreciative of local initiatives like Singapore Geek Girls, an...
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Rumor: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba This Year
Could 2013 be the year when a Chinese tech legend rides off into the sunset of retirement and (one assumes) maybe a little venture capitalism on the side? Maybe! A story in China Newsweek says that...
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4,000 Years of Chinese Culture Culminates in this Online Slang Dictionary
So now we’ve figured out that the internet won’t bring universal freedoms to China and got all that disappointment out of our systems, perhaps it can at least bring some lulz. A startup site called...
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M-Story: A Personal Finance App From Korea With iCloud Integration
Readers may remember that I was very enthusiastic about Japanese finance application Zaim. And while I’m pretty happy with that app, I was curious to come across a Korean-made alternative called...
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