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One of China’s Top Square Clones Swipes Funding From Sequoia
Lots of services are battling to be China’s equivalent of Square, the smartphone add-on that allows anyone to accept credit card payments. Prime among these is Qianfang, which has received an...
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82% of Chinese Have Mobile Phones, Some Provinces Have More Mobiles Than People
Mobile phone use in China has been growing steadily and swiftly over the past decade, and according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the country has just broken an...
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Microsoft Singapore Pushes Office 365, Partners with Starhub and Retailers
Yesterday morning, Microsoft Singapore officially launched its newest Office consumer product line, Office 365 Home Premium. It is a subscription-based cloud service that can be accessed across...
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Monster.com’s ChinaHR Sees Layoffs, Protests, Police Intervention
ChinaHR employees occupy the hallway. ChinaHR.com, a Chinese jobs site that was bought by Monster.com in 2008, had about as terrible a night as a company can have and still be in one piece the next...
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HootSuite Owl Learns to Speak Korean
The HootSuite owl has been learning Korean, and now the social media dashboard is fully localized for its users in Korea. This morning, HootSuite’s blog credits two particular Korean speakers for...
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Chinese Hackers Infiltrate the New York Times
via deepbluehorizon.blogspot.com The New York Times just published an article today stating that the paper was persistently hacked by Chinese hackers for the last four months. The hackers were...
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Lollipop Chainsaw Developer Acquired by One of Japan’s Top Game Publishers
Gamers might be aware that GungHo Online is one of Japan’s top mobile game publishers – and now GungHo is a bit bigger after acquiring the quirky Grasshopper Manufacture studio. The financial details...
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Jakarta Meetup: Tech Trends in Indonesia 2013
We’re pleased to say that our TechinAsia Meetup Jakarta is back on track. As many of you know, our first Meetup session was postponed due to the floods in Jakarta earlier this month. According to our...
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‘World Startup Report’ Tour Hits Australia, Still 27 More Countries to Go
Bowei on the first ‘World Startup Report’ stop in India. American entrepreneur Bowei Gai is in Australia right now. That’s not too remarkable in itself, but his visit to Melbourne right now is one of...
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Raising a Small Round Forces You to Bootstrap (And that’s a Good Thing)
How many young entrepreneurs in Asia can raise more than $500,000 in seed funding? Not many, and valuations are usually low in Southeast Asia – mostly below one million for early-stage startups....
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Mimo Discontinues SMS Services, Focuses on Mobile Web
One of Vietnam’s few, and certainly biggest, microblogging services, is shutting down its SMS service. Mimo, which allowed users to push updates from the web to phones via SMS, was one of the services...
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ChinaHR Dead in the Water? Guards at the Doors, Internet Shut Off
ChinaHR has been having a tough week, and it led up to protests and hurried negotiations after more than half of the staff was laid off on Wednesday. But the proposed solution raised by Monster.com...
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How Qihoo is Committing Fraud
Earlier this week, we wrote about the double serving of bad news Chinese web firm Qihoo got when its apps were removed from the iTunes store and China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce...
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Google’s Self-Driving Car is Perfect for China
Like any fan of things that are totally awesome, I have been following the process of Google’s self-driving car pretty closely. Yesterday, I came across this article in Forbes about the potential...
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WeChat Offends Vietnamese Users with ‘Cow Tongue’ Chinese Maps
This week there are reports in Vietnam’s local papers, and even on the Vietnamese prime minister’s website, that Vietnamese mobile users are dropping WeChat. The app, which is one of the big players in...
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Pocket App for iOS Gets Native Sharing to Sina Weibo
The ‘read it later’ app Pocket has looked to China for some inspiration for its newest update, and added the ability to share articles to Sina Weibo. This uses the in-built Sina Weibo account in iOS 6...
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Singapore’s Pirate3DP Gets Seed Funding for its Disruptive 3D Printers
3D printing promises a world of amazing possibilities, bringing small-scale manufacturing onto your desktop. But hardware costs are holding back its adoption. Singapore-based startup Pirate3DP is...
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Zalora’s E-Commerce Site is Ready for Mobile
After being operational since late 2011, Southeast Asia’s fashion e-commerce site Zalora finally launched its mobile-friendly website yesterday. The new mobile site looks a lot simpler with three main...
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Lenovo CEO: We Want to Beat Samsung, Become China’s Top Smartphone Brand
We reported last year that Chinese-brand smartphones make up 60 percent of sales in China, but Samsung remains the top brand. For now. Lenovo (HKG:0992) CEO Yang Yuanqing said this week that it’s...
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WSJ: Sony to Unveil PS4 on February 20th
Sony (NYSE:SNE) has sent out invites for a PlayStation-related event on February 20th. Shortly afterwards, it was confirmed by the Wall Street Journal (paywall) that this unveiling is for the...
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