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Thai Co-working Space Hubba Feels Homely, Expanding to Chiang Mai
Bangkok’s first co-working space, Hubba, is popular among Thai entrepreneurs and freelancers. Located in the very happening Ekkamai area, Hubba is 300 square meters in area and can fit up to 70 people...
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CNNIC Report: China Now Has 564 Million Internet Users, More Than Half are on...
China’s web registry regulator, the CNNIC, has today released a new tranche of data showing the size of the Chinese internet landscape at the end of 2012. The report reveals that China now has 564...
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Princess Punt Sweets: If you Liked Angry Birds, You’ll Get a Kick Out of This...
There’s a wacky creativity behind some Japanese-made games that I really enjoy. It’s the same humorous spirit that went into Ponus’s Battle Cats, and I suppose its probably the same sort of notion...
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Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Confirms Retirement From CEO Role at Ripe Old Age of 48
Jack Ma will soon step down from his role as Alibaba CEO Alibaba founder and CEO has confirmed that, after building up China’s biggest e-commerce venture since 1999, he will step down from his role as...
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VTV Plus Android App: TV Is Going Mobile in Vietnam
Television is still the dominant medium in Vietnam. 90 percent of all Vietnamese citizens own a television set, and for ad spending, television dominates with over 70 percent of the market. Compare...
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Now KakaoTalk Makes It Easier to Steal Away BBM Users
KakaoTalk, a Korean-made chat app has made an update to its Blackberry app so that it now incorporates RIM’s Blackberry Connect. Now the app can recommend and invite users’ BBM friends to start using...
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Telkomsel Offers Carrier Billing to Blackberry Users
These days carrier billing for apps is definitely on the rise here in Indonesia. Today, the country’s biggest telco Telkomsel announced that the company now provides carrier billing for the Blackberry...
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Vietnamese Handicrafts + E-Commerce = Lola.vn
Just 12 days after my article listing all the key e-commerce players in the Vietnam market, there’s already a new website on the scene. Lola.vn, with its smooth design and new concept, is a nice...
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Startup Labs Sets its Eyes on Tech Companies in Vietnam and the Philippines
We have features as many startups from the Philippines as we should have over the past year, but there are certainly some remarkable ones in that group. Startup Asia alum Payroll Hero immediately...
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Beijing ‘Airpocalypse’ Sparks Spike in Air Quality App Downloads
Beijing had a pretty bad weekend for air quality. In fact, it was so bad that people have taken to calling it the airpocalypse. Levels of PM2.5 — fine particulate matter that increases the risk of...
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Alipay Says Wireless Payments Up 546% in 2012
Online payment is a lucrative market sector, and like almost other aspect of China’s tech sector these days, it’s going mobile. How mobile? So mobile that far-and-away market leaders Alipay are...
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Feecha 2 is Out, Now is That Determination or Just Stubbornness?
After more than a year of growing, falling, and fixing, the Chingchong Group has launched the second version of Feecha. For folks who don’t know what Feecha is, it’s an app that provides you with...
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Le Hong Minh and his VNG Story
On my recent trip to Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam, I had the privilege to interview Mr. Le Hong Minh, the CEO and co-founder of VNG. VNG is one of the largest Internet companies in Vietnam. Most, if...
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Just Short of 2 Years Old, WeChat App Surpasses 300 Million Users
The makers of WeChat said recently that the messaging app will likely soon surpass 300 million registered users – and now that has officially happened. The massive milestone is confirmed by Tencent...
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Survey of Japanese Young Adults Shows Preference for Twitter, Facebook
We recently looked at a survey of Japanese smartphone users which gave a general indication of what kinds of applications people in the country preferred. That particular poll showed NHN Japan’s Line...
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3G iPad and iPad Mini Finally Hit China This Week
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has confirmed that the 3G – aka “cellular” – versions of the iPad and iPad Mini will officially hit China this week. The models go on sale across China this Friday (18th), joining...
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Chinese Gamers Ponder How Public Opinion Should Shape Game Development
Should you make games based on what the public wants, or based on something inside yourself or your company that you want to express? It’s a fundamental question that cuts right to the heart of game...
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With Stickers and Shout-Outs, Snoop Dogg Helps Push Line App in the US
Line app experienced crazy growth last year, and looks set to surpass 100 million global users sometime this month. To hit that milestone, and to get onto the smartphones of more kids in North...
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Telkomsel Officially Wins its Bankruptcy Appeal
Indonesia’s biggest telco Telkomsel made an announcement this week saying that the Indonesian Supreme Court has overruled the bizarre bankruptcy verdict given to the company back in September,...
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The Story of Zopim: Struggle and Sacrifice on the Way to Startup Success
Zopim is six-year old Singaporean startup that provides live chat software for websites. At moment, they have a team of more than 25 members, with around 70,000 businesses actively using their service...
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