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M8VC Opens its Accelerator Program To Startups Targeting Thai Market
This is where you work! Local Thai venture capital cum incubator M8VC is accepting applications for its accelerator program starting today. The deadline is Valentine’s Day, February 14. For...
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Collaborative Design Platform Cacoo Goes Enterprise
Based in Fukuoka, Japan, Cacoo is an online collaborative design service which we have featured a few times before. With over 700,000 users worldwide, the service has rolled out a number of fun...
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Was Your Phone Made By a Forced Student Intern?
Readers may recall last fall’s kerfuffle over student interns who were forced to work at Foxconn, earning rock-bottom wages for long hours of manual labor in jobs that were mostly totally unrelated to...
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China Railway Ministry Asks Kingsoft to Shut Down Browser Add-On
As we approach the Spring Festival heavy travel season, China’s 12306 train ticket e-commerce site seems to be handling the load a bit better than last year. Over the year, numerous independent...
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Melbourne Accelerator Program: It’s a Success!
Australia’s first and only university-run startup accelerator, Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP), has officially graduated its startups. Two out of four startups have successfully raised a total of...
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Why Apple Isn’t Making a Low-Cost Smartphone for China
We all know that China is important to Apple (even if you didn’t know it already, Tim Cook’s recent visit to China surely must have driven it home). It’s becoming Apple’s biggest market, but with...
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9 Likely Chinese Tech IPOs in 2013
2011 saw economic turmoil and financial scandals that led to only two Chinese tech companies venturing to IPO in 2012. But 2013 is looking up. This year there’s the distinct possibility of there being...
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Tokyo Otaku Mode Launches News Page, Approaches 10 Million Facebook Likes
Tokyo Otaku Mode’s newly launched News section Japan-based Tokyo Otaku Mode turned many heads over the past year, mostly because of its enormous fan base on its Facebook page, which now totals nearly...
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NHN Japan’s Line Chat App Passes 100 Million Users
at Line HQ, just before the milestone was reached As we mentioned in our post yesterday, NHN Japan’s Line application has been slowly creeping up on the impressive milestone of 100 million users...
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China Now Has 242 Million E-Commerce Shoppers, Spending $40,000 per Second...
Yesterday we looked at the Chinese social media side of a mammoth new infographic report. Today, let’s focus on another powerhouse aspect of the Chinese web: e-commerce. It’s a vast industry that has...
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JazzMyApp Tackles Social App Recommendations, Pinterest Style
Malaysian startup Mobile9 has been trying to solve the app discovery issue for quite a few years. Now it’s launching JazzMyApp as a dedicated and highly social way of finding new apps for iOS and...
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DeNA and Nexon Partner to Bring More Mobile Games to Mobage
Hot on the heels of last week’s rebranding announcement, Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432) has announced a major partnership today with game developer and publisher Nexon (TYO:3659). The tie-up will see new...
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UN’s Ban Ki-Moon Honored by Sina Weibo for His Social Engagement with China
Earlier this week, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon was honored by Sina Weibo, China’s biggest Twitter-like site, for his social engagement with Chinese netizens. The annual award ceremony saw Ban...
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China Plans Weibo Propaganda Blitz Using 2 Million Paid Commenters
An article in today’s Beijing News states that a number of propaganda department heads have agreed to a plan to blitz social media with state-approved news and ideas. This will involve just over two...
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5 Big Things Vietnam’s Tech Scene Needs To Grow
What do startups in Vietnam need or lack? I asked this recently to a bunch of friends on the way back from new annual conference for the technology community. They immediately replied: Focus!...
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Revamped Alipay Wallet App Takes a Leaf Out of Apple’s Passbook
There are lots of apps and services out there that want to be your mobile, digital wallet. In China, the biggest contender is Alipay, the e-payments service that grew out of China’s biggest e-commerce...
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So Much For Negotiation: Chinese Government Orders Browsers to Kill Train...
Just yesterday it seemed that China’s Railway Ministry was in the process of negotiating nicely with domestic browser companies to get them to remove plugins and other web apps that made it easier for...
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Are Chinese Schools Beating the US in Technology Integration?
Yesterday, Tech in Asia (and probably a lot of other blogs) got a link to the following infographic in our mailboxes. It concerns the comparative integration of technology in China and the United...
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5 Must-Read Stories in China This Week
This was a week of big in China. Big news, big numbers, and big surprises. Plus, big battles on the horizon? Only time will tell, but since we don’t have a time machine, let’s scrutinize what went...
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12 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Here we are, ending the week with another compilation of all the startups in Asia that we have covered in the past seven days. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively,...
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