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Indonesian E-Commerce Platform Lojai Set to Offer Travel Products
Indonesian e-commerce store Lojai is looking to get into the travel industry as early as March by adding an integrated booking mechanism for airlines, trains, and hotels. This is an interesting move...
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Viss App Makes it Easier for Fashionistas to Buy
Last fall we told you about Hong Kong-based startup Viss (www.viss.me), which encourages its users to share fashion photos and follow their favorite trends on the Viss network. Since that time, we’ve...
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Thai Startup Launches a Cloud Client For Your Digital Business
Mimee is a blogger and editor at Bangkok-based Thumbsup. Thai startup The VCgroup – which stands for Venture Catalyst – has launched an interesting new cloud client platform called Penta. Aiming to...
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Payoo, Vietnam’s Paypal, Rolls Out Paybill
Although online payment still has a lot of hurdles to pass in Vietnam, this hasn’t stopped local companies from releasing products like Paybill. The bill payment service released new services this...
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Zalora Indonesia Donates 2,500 Fashion Items to Jakarta Flood Victims
In light of the recent Jakarta floods, fashion e-commerce site Zalora Indonesia held a charity event called Zalora Fashion Fights the Flood – You Buy One, We Give One. It ran for three days until...
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Videogram Gets HTML5 Improvements, Native Apps Coming Soon
Back in December we got word that Cinemacraft had raised a new round of funding. Its Videogram service, as you may recall, is a handy service that gives users a paneled, comic book style preview of...
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Social Coding Site Github Unblocked and Accessible Again in China
It was just two days ago that my colleague reported on how the social coding site Github had become blocked in China. But today we notice that it is accessible again within the country on two...
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Between’s Co-founder: Thinking Local is Challenging, Not Yet Thinking of SEA
VCNC, the Korean startup behind the couples messaging app, Between, has raised 3 billion KRW ($2.8 million) from Stonebridge Capital, KTB Network, Capstone Partners, and SoftBank Ventures Korea. So...
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Apple Sees iPhone Sales Double in China
There have been lots of rumors that Apple is interested in making a low-cost smartphone for China. I don’t buy it, and in the company’s quarterly earnings call, Apple released some information that...
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China Train Ticket Site Cost Nearly $100 Million, Seems to Be Harassing...
Back by popular demand, the space train. Last fall, we learned that China’s 12306 train ticket sales platform cost 329 million RMB ($52 million), which seemed like sort of a lot given that the thing...
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ZingMe Releases Group Chat On Its Social Network
ZingMe, Vietnam’s current number two social network after Facebook, has just released a new group chat service. Chat Nhom, (meaning Group Chat) allows users of ZingMe to jump into any live chat group...
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Gome, Suning Granted Preliminary Licenses as Virtual Telecom Operators
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) seems to be moving very fast in its plan to issue virtual telecom operator licenses. Following on its recent estimation that the market...
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Are Games Getting Easier? Chinese Gamers Say Yes!
In this week’s edition of Netease Games’ great feature series “Dispute!” (see previous stories here and here), the portal asks whether games are getting easier. Usually, the Chinese gaming community...
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Fab Cafe in Tokyo Preps Sweet 3D Printing Workshop in Time for Valentine’s Day
We’ve had a few fun 3D printing stories over the past few weeks. You may recall this 3D printing photo studio from Xi’an, China which prints a miniature bust of the customer in just a few hours after...
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Japan’s Fuji TV Establishes $17 Million Startup Fund
Japan’s Nikkei 1 reports today that national TV network Fuji TV has founded a venture capital fund called Fuji Startup Ventures, or FSV for short. The fund will be worth about 1.5 billion yen...
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Check Out 3 Years of Stunning 3G Growth in China [CHART]
China has just reached 233.44 million 3G subscribers across its three mobile telcos. Digging back through the self-reported stats for each, I noticed that the end of 2009 is the earliest firm data...
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Business Plan Competition Offers Much-Needed Seed Funding for Indonesia
The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) is holding a nationwide business plan competition aimed at Indonesian university students. It’s called the ITB Entrepreneurship Challenge (IEC) 2013. The...
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GREE Officially Releases NFL Shuffle, Still Not Ready For Prime Time
Today GREE (TYO:3632) announced that it is officially releasing its NFL-branded card battle game for iPhone, called NFL Shuffle. Of course, regular readers of this blog may recall that the game was...
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NHN Japan’s Casual Games Continue to Kill it on Line
20M downloads for Line Pop More milestones for NHN Japan and its Line chat app, which is continuing to prove its worth as a game platform. After the company passed the lofty 100 million user figure...
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Nokia Sales Down 79% in China as Symbian Dies, Lumia Slow to Grow
Nokia’s Lumia phones weren’t enough to stop Nokia’s most disastrous China numbers ever. (Images: Techinasia.com) If you thought Nokia’s (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) China figures for 2011 were a disaster, you...
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