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China’s Virtual Telecom Market May Be Worth $11 Billion
Recently, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced a plan to permit telecom companies to lease out their networks to virtual telecom operators, opening the doors to the...
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Tencent Weibo, the ‘Other Weibo’ That Nobody Cares About, Reaches 540 Million...
Much of the social media buzz in China – and a lot of our own coverage – is about Sina Weibo. But it’s worth remembering that one other Twitter-esque site in the country is technically larger: Tencent...
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Blackberry 10 Will Come with 100,000 Apps
RIM’s new Blackberry 10 seems to be riding in on a high note ahead of its launch next week as it clocked over 34,000 new apps ported onto BB10 during the Blackberry Port-A-Thon event. This means that...
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3 E-commerce Trends to Watch in China in 2013
China’s e-commerce sector has grown rapidly over the course of the past five years. By the end of the third quarter of 2012, the total transaction volume of China’s online retail market reached $125...
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Now With New Parents, China’s Redbaby Targets $500M in Sales This Year
In September of last year, the once highly lauded online store Redbaby, which specializes in baby and maternity items, was bought for the bargain price of $66 million by one of China’s top retail...
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Ideosource Invests in Islamic Women’s Fashion Store Saqina
Indonesian online fashion store Saqina, which focuses on clothing for Muslim women, announced today that it has received investment from Jakarta-based investment firm Ideosource. The funding amount...
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Lazada Vietnam Greets the New Year with 3 Days of Promotions
This year’s Tet, Vietnamese New Year, is on February 10th. That’s less than 20 days away. In reality, it’s even less as Vietnamese people mentally shut down a week before the New Year. However, Lazada...
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Gung Ho’s ‘Princess Punt Sweets’ Has a Million Downloads in Japan
Last week I mentioned a fun new Japanese mobile game called Princess Punt Sweets, from developer Gung Ho Entertainment. Admittedly, it’s a pretty weird game as your character, the princess, is tasked...
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KakaoTalk Releases Vietnamese New Year Stickers
KakaoTalk, South Korea’s number one messaging app, has released new stickers for the Vietnamese market this week. With Vietnamese New Year just around the corner, the stickers feature classic Tet...
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Baidu: More Than 30 Million NetDrive Users Have Their Heads in the Cloud
As with the late-arriving Google Drive, China’s Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) was a bit late to the cloud storage game, launching its consumer-oriented NetDrive (“WangPan” in Chinese) in March of last year....
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Mobile Monday Tokyo Promises an Evening of Drinks and Eye Candy
The Tokyo chapter of Mobile Monday has an impressive lineup of speakers for its upcoming event on February 4th. If you’re in the Tokyo area you might want to swing by, as the presenters represent some...
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Apple Indonesia Investment Confirmed, Jakarta Store and Online Sales Coming Soon
Our friends over at MakeMac spotted today that the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) has approved Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) application to open both an online store and an official retail...
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Step by Step
Yesterday, we were pleased to announce that we have finally concluded our second round of financing. But today things are pretty much the same in our newsroom: busy. We have made both good and bad...
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Meizu MX2 Hits China Unicom Today, Available for Free on Some Contract Plans
The Meizu MX2 launched last month, bringing a 4.4-inch Android-powered quad-core phone to consumers in China for prices starting at 2,499 RMB ($400) unlocked. Beginning this morning, the phone arrives...
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Gridblaze Makes Data Local, File Sharing Runs Like The Flash
Singapore-based Gridblaze makes storage fast first by tracing the user’s location and then deciding the closest point for storage. Founder Mikhail Choo, who also runs Ape Communication (an ad agency),...
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Gung Ho’s ‘Puzzles & Dragons’ Picking Up Steam in Korea
Yesterday I highlighted Gung Ho Entertainment’s (JASDAQ:3765) Princess Punt Sweets, a mobile game for iOS that has been doing well in the Japanese market. Gung Ho is of course most famous for its...
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HootSuite Adds Weibo Scheduled Posts and More Social Marketing Features
The social media posting platform HootSuite ventured into China last October with support for Sina Weibo, which is a crucial avenue for social marketing to Chinese consumers. Today Canada-based...
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Kotagames and XL to Hold Gamehack Challenge in March
As part of the XL Developer Network program that the Indonesian telco announced a couple of weeks ago, gaming platform Kotagames will also hold a web-based social game hackathon called the XL Gamehack...
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Google Opens Philippines Office Today
Manila has a lot more brightly-colored sofas and foosball tables today with the opening of Google’s Philippines office. Narciso Reyes has been appointed country manager. He commented this morning that...
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Chinese Train Ticket Web Traffic Hijacked to Push Qihoo’s 360 Browser
China’s 12306 ticket purchase site (run by China’s Railway Ministry), is the only official way to buy train tickets online in China. But with Spring Festival coming and traffic to 12306 spiking, it...
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