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Chinese Online Shoppers’ Top Complaint: It Doesn’t Match the Pictures!
China’s e-commerce industry is both massive and profitable, but from a consumer standpoint, it still has a way to go. That is on display in the results of a survey conducted by China’s Ministry of...
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WTF? Lenovo Considering Acquiring RIM to Boost its Mobile Arm
Late yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese tech giant Lenovo is pondering an acquisition of Research in Motion (RIM), in a move that would presumably be aimed at boosting its own mobile business....
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Pop Star Leehom Wang Tries Direct Pay-to-Download Music Model on His Website
The direct, pay-to-download model of selling entertainment has been increasingly popular in the West since comedian Louis CK used his own website to offer a video of his latest special for $5 and,...
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India’s PriceBaba Finds Funding For its Product Search Engine
For all the horsepower behind every general search engine in the world, it seems that consumers are increasingly finding product search engines useful. And that’s part of the reason why India’s...
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Microsoft Under Fire For Skype China Business and Alleged Chat Intercepts
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is under fire from dozens of rights advocates today in the form of an open letter to Skype which calls on the new owner of the VoIP service to clarify just how secure Skype is....
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Growing Faster than Facebook and Twitter: Key Highlights for Japan’s Line App...
Now boasting more than 100 million users on its Line mobile chat app, NHN Japan has released an infographic to commemorate the occasion. Included in the graphic are a few select figures which provide a...
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Why SetechViet is My Favorite Vietnamese Startup
When people ask me about my favorite startups in Vietnam, SetechViet is at the top of my list. They’ve got an awesome young, innovative team and a product that intersects two huge Vietnamese markets:...
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Now Valued at Just $30M, Jobs Site ChinaHR Rumored Sold Off For a Monster Loss
200 ChinaHR employees will, the rumor says, be needing to find new jobs themselves. The impasse over recruitment site ChinaHR, the loss-making subsidiary of US-based Monster (NYSE:MWW), is rumored to...
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Saat Ini Curates the Hottest and Funniest Web Content for Indonesians
Indonesian marketing company eXo Digital Agency, the same one that co-founded the sporting news and sexy lady pictures portal DewiBola, has launched another media startup. It’s called Saat Ini, which...
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Apple Terminates One China Supplier That Had 74 Underage Workers
I’ve been looking at Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) annual ‘supplier responsibility’ reports for a few years now and, depressingly, they’re still battling the same ingrained problems among its Chinese...
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Uber-Cute Photo App ‘Camely’ Tops 400,000 Downloads in Japan, Adds...
We’ve featured lots of fun photo apps from Japan in the past, and here’s another one that looks like a promising addition for Valentine’s Day. Called ‘Camely,’ the service is in fact a photo-centric...
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The Power of Asking for Help: In Conversation with Gina Romero
In our previous post featuring female entrepreneurs in Asia, we spoke with Adriana Gascoigne, the CEO and founder of both Girls in Tech and HelpLearn.Asia. Today, we are honoured to have Gina Romero,...
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Aimed at Southeast Asia, New ‘Undead Slayer’ Game is Worth A Go
Nerds who have nothing to do on a Friday night could take a look at NHN Singapore’s latest iOS and Android game, Undead Slayer. Diablo 3 comes to mind as a similar slash and kill game. But if you’re...
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Xiaomi Box Finally Gets Regulatory Approval, Can Soon Go on Sale
Now with regulatory approval, the Xiaomi Box (pictured bottom right) is back in business. Remember the set-top streaming device from Xiaomi which was seemingly killed off by China’s media regulators...
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PlugFest 2013 Competition Calls For Entries
The Google Developer Group (GDG) Singapore and the IEEE Computer Society Singapore will be holding their inaugural PlugFest International Programming Competition (IPC) for tertiary students and...
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Beijing Government Releases Official Air Quality Monitoring App
With these levels of smog (this photo is from a couple weeks ago) it’s no wonder people want to know what they’re going to be breathing before they step outside. Boy, has the government come a long way...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for Story of the Week [Jan. 26]
How was your week? Fun week? Big week? As usual our week was pretty busy trying to stay on top of all the latest tech happenings around the Asia region. And for your reading pleasure, we’ve put...
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11 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
It has been a pretty busy week in the China technology space, with lots of activity from the big players, both foreign and domestic, especially in the mobile space. We also saw the net nanny make a...
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Chinese Gamer Murders Two, Burns Down House When Internet Cuts Out
A spotty internet connection can be a real annoyance, but a gamer in China surnamed Zhao took things to a whole new level at an internet cafe in Renqiu, Hebei. When the connection dropped while Zhao...
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White House Petition Calls for Architects of China’s Great Firewall be Denied...
A user-submitted petition has gone up on the White House website that calls for the chief architects of China’s censorious Great Firewall to be “denied entry to the US.” If the petition reaches 95,160...
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