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Onigi Integrates with ESL Express Ahead of Launching its Own Logistics Platform
Onigi, an Indonesian-based startup that lets small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) set up online stores easily, announced a few days ago that it is now fully integrated with the country’s logistic...
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Rumor: Alibaba Hires IPO Underwriters, Ready to Raise $4 Billion This Year
It was just yesterday that Alibaba founder Jack Ma said he’d be retiring from his CEO role at the e-commerce giant in May. And now Bloomberg suggests that Ma’s passing of the baton will not slow...
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Vietnam is Asia’s New Tech Manufacturing Hub
photo via dientutieudung.vn It all started in 2010. Intel built its $1 billion chip manufacturing plant in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Vietnam’s electronic manufacturing dream had arrived. Gone would be...
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TMG Founder: Singaporeans Have a Tough Time Expanding to Developing Markets
Singapore is considered a developed market, but developing markets are all around it. This evening at a Founder Institute event, TMG’s founder Alvin Yap, who recently raised more than a million from...
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Singapore Preps More 4G Spectrum Auctions, Will Cost Telcos $300 Million
Some Singapore telcos rolled out 4G services back in September of last year, but the nation’s LTE roll-out is far from complete. The government today announced that more spectrums will be up for...
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Indonesian Flight Finder Site Traveloka Processed 2 Million Searches Last Month
Indonesian flight search engine Traveloka.com has recorded staggering growth in the last two months, with the startup processing more than two million flight searches last month, and the team claims...
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After making billions, Alibaba’s chief steps back [VIDEO]
With his Alibaba empire larger than ever and a personal $3.4 billion fortune, Jack Ma is retiring as CEO to become executive chairman. But the Chinese entrepreneur isn’t done yet. The post After making...
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360Buy Founds Major Cloud Research Center in Beijing
Chinese e-commerce giant 360Buy is taking to the cloud, or so it appears with the company’s announcement yesterday of the launch of a major cloud computing research center located in Beijing’s...
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M-Commerce Startup Carousell Announces Collaboration with Singapore Press...
Often, when the areas of concentration of two companies overlap, they battle it out for market dominance, so it’s nice when we see an example of people companies working together to benefit users....
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Getting Weird Server Hits from China? It May Not Be Hackers…
Bob. Today’s Register brings us an amusing story that also has a bit of a moral to it: although it can be easy to blame Chinese hackers for everything, sometimes the answer to your tech mystery is...
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Weak Demand for Apple’s iPhone 5? Chinese Economic Data May Hint at Truth
There has been a lot of discussion in the tech media recently following a Wall Street Journal story that suggested Apple had halved its order for iPhone 5s from supplier Foxconn in response to...
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The Mobile Messenger War: What’s the Score?
Line will soon hit 100M users Yesterday we pointed out that Chinese chat application WeChat (known as Weixin in Chinese) had surpassed the 300 million user mark. And just yesterday evening, apparently...
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Announcement: Floods in Jakarta, Meetup Postponed
The current rainfall and flood situation in Jakarta has gone from bad to worse, and we have no choice but to postpone this evening’s meetup. We will announce a new date for the Jakarta meetup soon. We...
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I am Calling Bullshit on Your ‘Mobile Strategy’
After 15 years of working for someone else, Mikaal Abdulla finally got smart and started his own company. He is the co-founder and CEO of 8 Securities. This is part of an occasional series on marketing...
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Indonesia Geek Girls to Launch in February, Aims to Connect More Female...
Earlier this week we mentioned Singapore Geek Girl’s plans for 2013. But today we’re also pleased to let our Indonesian readers know that it also has a sister chapter on the way. The Indonesia Geek...
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KDDI Funds Japanese App Publisher 3rdKind, Solidifies Partnership
KDDI Corporation (TYO:9433) has just announced that it will be solidifying its partnership with Japanese app publisher 3rdKind by way of funding though its Open Innovation Fund. The funding amount was...
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Next Version of WeChat App Will Add Voice Chatrooms, Song Recognition...
Yesterday, WeChat app officially hit an impressive new milestone – 300 million registered users – and that coincided with an iOS beta release of v4.5 of the app. The update shows that WeChat will...
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With 600 Million Social Media Users, This is China’s Web in 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC]
We noted the other day that China now has 564 million internet users and 420 million mobile web users. Now the We Are Social team has put the whole Chinese internet landscape into context – and...
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7 Dead as Pair of Foxconn Company Buses Crash in Zhengzhou
A photo circulating on Sina Weibo (posted by The Economic Observer) shows that a pair of Foxconn company buses have been involved in a fatal crash in Zhengzhou, Henan province, this afternoon. Reports...
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Founder Institute Showcases Its Singapore-Based Startups
The Founder Institute, the world largest startup accelerator, held an event yesterday to showcase some of its top graduated Singapore-based startups who are in the process of fundraising. I was there...
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