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11 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Here’s the list of startups which we have written about in the past seven days. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively, you can send tips here and/or tell us about your...
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VCs – Learn this Marketing Shit
What should startups want in an investor? Money, smarts, rolodex – sure. But that’s not enough anymore. I want my VC to do marketing for me too. Pimp my startup Ron Conway is certainly no lesser...
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Couples Messaging App LoveByte Launches for Android, Avoids Clash with Between
LoveByte, a popular mobile messaging app for love couples, is finally available on Android. This news came shortly after its Korea-based competitor Between announced its financing round last week....
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5 Years After Launching, Twitter-esque Startup Plurk Gets Series A Funding
Plurk has been around since 2008 as a social network that works like Twitter. It has proved popular in Asia – so much so that the team moved from Toronto, Canada to set up shop in Taiwan. Today Plurk...
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RIM: Blackberry 10 Hits Singapore on February 21
RIM’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) long-awaited and much-needed OS revamp, Blackberry 10, will be unveiled in new hardware in just two days’ time. The company has just revealed that the new Blackberry 10 phones will...
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After Being Unblocked in China, Github Suffers Attack on Site’s HTTPS...
Chrome browser detects that something is wrong with Github’s security certificate. After the social coding site Github got blocked and then unblocked in China last week, there was a new scare for its...
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Still Not Killed Off by Apple, China’s Jailbreak-Free App Piracy Service is...
KuaiYong’s English-language PC app, a sort of Pirate Bay version of iTunes, is coming soon. Earlier this month we looked at KuaiYong, a rogue app store that allows iPhone and iPad users to install...
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Game on? China Contemplating End to Gaming Consoles Ban
My gaming fanatic colleague Charlie just sent me an email at midnight in his timezone (he’s in the US), so either it’s a drunken missive or it’s big news. Turns out it’s the latter. That’s because...
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[Event] Tech in Asia Meetup: 10 Mobile Marketing Tips
Last Thursday evening marked the very beginning of our series of Tech in Asia Meetups. Held at the Microsoft auditorium in Singapore, we were extremely pleased to have Rico Wyder from Fiksu to share...
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Indonesian Movie 3Sum Uses Augmented Reality for Promo Stunt
Augmented reality developer AR&Co recently created an augmented reality Android app solely to help promote an Indonesian movie called 3Sum. The app is touted as the first use of augmented reality...
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New Partnership Means Xiaomi Box No Longer Banned, Sales in 3 Cities Starting...
Xiaomi’s Lei Jun (left) secures a deal that’ll put his much-delayed set-top box on sale. On Friday evening we suggested that the Apple TV-esque Xiaomi Box had risen from the dead after being given...
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Rakuten Opens Singapore Base, Eyes Southeast Asia Expansion
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten (JSD:4755) now has a regional headquarters situated at One George Road in Singapore. The new Singapore office is set to take charge of Rakuten’s Asia-Pacific...
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How the Very Uncool ‘CoolPad’ is Outselling Apple’s iPhone in China
Coolness is only skin deep, but being uncool goes to the core. The Chinese phone-maker CoolPad is a case in point, and is about as cool as a Microsoft viral video. But that’s not putting off China’s...
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Vietnam Pitch Event Features 11 Fresh New Startups
Last Saturday, over 120 people came together for a 2012 Vietnam Startup Retrospective event. Venture capitalists, professors, and startup leaders served as judges in a competition that included 11...
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Amidst Security Fears, Huawei and ZTE Refused ‘Domestic Telecom’ Status in India
It’s no secret that India and China aren’t the best of friends. The two countries still have unresolved territorial disputes, and are also engaged in an ongoing struggle for regional influence and...
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Vancl Aiming for 50% Growth in 2013
China’s biggest clothing e-commerce site has been on a bit of a bumpy road over the past few years, but this year is looking bright. The company is building an expensive and shiny new HQ in Tianjin,...
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US-Based Buy.com to be Rebranded as ‘Rakuten Shopping’ This Week
Yesterday we mentioned that Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten (JSD: 4755) is opening a Singapore office to enlarge the company’s presence even more in Southeast Asia. But the Japanese company is also...
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Chinese People Are Sending Fewer Text Messages Than They Used To
Chinese people on average sent fewer text messages in 2012 than they did in 2011, according to statistics released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Yes, the total...
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Google Maps Zoom in on North Korea
Original images via Google LatLong blog. North Korea has long been a bit of a blank, unknown wasteland for Google Maps, but that changes today. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has had help from “a community of...
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SingTel and Axiata Among 4 Telcos Keen to Enter Myanmar
Bloomberg reports that at least four major telecoms firms are vying to be granted licenses to operate in the newly opened up Myanmar market. Singapore’s SingTel (SGX:T48) and Telemedia are in...
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