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Smartfren’s New Andromax-u Handset Looks Promising
Indonesian handset manufacturer and telco Smartfren released an Android handset yesterday called the Andromax-u. Leading up to launch day, it claimed the handset has had 2,000 pre-orders already. Why...
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Baidu-Owned Qunar Chases the Money with New Luxury Hotel Portal
Baidu-owned (NASDAQ:BIDU) travel e-commerce site Qunar today opened up a luxury hotel section on its site. Packed with over 2,000 high-end hotels in some of China’s top cities and holiday...
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KakaoTalk Launches Social Gaming Platform on iOS and in Japan
Korean-made messaging app KakaoTalk launched its Game Platform on Android in its home country last July – and today that social gaming system is rolling out on iOS and coming to Japan as well. It’s a...
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Stolen Personal Information is Still For Sale on the Chinese Internet
On Friday, China’s government announced new standards for the protection of personal information online. But an investigation by the Guangzhou Daily discovered that on the eve of the new standards’...
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Chinese WoW Player Sleeps With Guild Members “For the Alliance”
World of Warcraft players have gone viral in some pretty weird ways in the past, but a Chinese gamer may have created a new piece of Chinese internet history recently when he told guild members that...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Feb. 2, 2013]
This week’s bloggers’ selections span more of the continent than usual – all the way from North Korea to Malaysia. China was in the news as ever, though mostly in a negative light as tensions ramped...
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VanityTrove Buys Glossybox Taiwan, Now Has “A Few Thousand” Subscribers
On a peaceful and lazy Saturday afternoon, beauty box subscription commerce startup VanityTrove announced that it has acquired Glossybox in Taiwan, a company part of Rocket Internet. The CEO of...
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10 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Covering games consoles, smartphones, and cold-blooded murder, there were plenty of surprises and controversies all week. 1. Oh my god, shut up about China’s game console ban being lifted After a...
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8 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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How The Mobile Gamer (TMG) Hustles For Growth in Southeast Asia
Singapore-based startup The Mobile Gamer (TMG) has come a long way since it was founded in December 2008. The initial idea for the company was far from what it has become today. The team started off...
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China Mobile Rolls Out 2 More City-Wide 4G Trials
Over the weekend, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941) flipped the switch on massive new 4G trials in two Chinese cities. It means that residents in Hangzhou and Wenzhou, both in Zhejiang province on the...
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KakaoTalk Releases K-Pop Star Emoticons for Indonesian Users
Korea-made chat app KakaoTalk today launched sets of Korean pop star emoticons that are localized for users in Indonesia. The animated text on these emoticons come in English and Indonesian. With this...
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Pure Social, Location, and Mobile: A Tough Nut to Crack
‘Social, location, and mobile’ is often dubbed SoLoMo for short, and it’s one of the most annoying buzzwords used within tech circles today. Depending on how you use SoLoMo apps, the effects can vary...
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Report: Qihoo’s iOS Apps Under Special Investigation by Apple
Still banned by Apple: the 360 Browser HD for iPad. At the start of last week, all the 20+ iOS apps made by Chinese software company and search engine Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU) vanished from Apple’s App Store...
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Baidu-Owned Qunar Aims for $160 Million in Revenue This Year
Baidu-owned (NASDAQ:BIDU) travel e-commerce site Qunar is aiming to grow its sales revenue to 1 billion RMB – that’s US$160 million – by the end of 2013. Qunar CEO Zhuang Chenchao said recently, as...
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Microsoft Singapore to Award Founder Institute Scholarship in App Dev Contest
Microsoft Singapore recently introduced the BizSpark Launch Academy, a Windows developer competition aimed at startups and individual developers. The top three winners of this competition will be...
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Lazada Indonesia Will Help Forgetful Lovebirds Pick Gifts for Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s day is only 10 days away, and e-commerce store Lazada Indonesia is preparing to introduce an interesting “emergency gift ideas” feature soon. It will help lovebirds pick out a nice gift for...
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China’s First Dropbox Clone Will Close Next Month
China’s first major Dropbox clone was created by Chinese web company Shanda (NASDAQ:SNDA; FRA:RZP) back in 2010. Shanda was previously best known for its e-book store and online gaming, but with the...
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Singapore’s Redmart Gets Bigger Team, Bigger Warehouse, Bigger Revenue
Singapore-based online supermarket RedMart seems to be doing very well these days. At least everything seems to be growing rapidly. According to their most recent update, the good folks at RedMart...
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The Start Network: Building Ho Chi Minh City’s Entrepreneur Ecosystem
Chris, on the far left, pictured with members of the community and visitors from Ycombinator and Chart.io via the Silicon Valley. If you’re coming to Ho Chi Minh city and you want to learn about...
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