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Opera: Indonesia Now World’s 2nd Largest Market for Mobile Ad Impressions
Norwegian web browser maker Opera (OSE:OPERA) has just released its latest State of Mobile Advertising report which takes data from Opera’s own Mediaworks mobile ad platform during the last quarter of...
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WeChat’s Latest Update Includes a Walkie-Talkie Live Chat
After several people asking us for a review, we finally got two of our team members to update to the latest WeChat version 4.5.0.9 and give the live chat a test. Sorry for the slight delay, people....
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Rumor: Qihoo 360 CEO in Secret Meetings with Sogou Over Search Partnership
To say that Qihoo and Baidu don’t like each other would be an understatement. The two CEOs (Zhou Hongyi and Robin Li respectively) have a personal feud that goes back years and that has clearly bled...
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Pixtem Offers Solution for Beginners to Get Online, Build Websites
There are a few Indonesian startups which aspire to bring more Indonesians online, and Pixtem.com (1) has come to help achieve that end goal as well. Compared with Onigi and LakuBgt that are focused...
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China Startup’s ‘File Expert’ App Gets 20 Million Users Organized
I’ve been using File Expert on my Android phone for quite a while as it’s a free file manager app that looks pretty good and doesn’t have ugly ads, unlike the free version of Astro. Turns out I’m not...
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The Founding Story of MOL, One of Southeast Asia’s Largest Payment Companies
MOL is one of the biggest payment companies in Southeast Asia, with over 680,000 physical and online payment channels, 60 million annual transactions, and yearly revenue over $300 million. Some of...
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UC Web Dominating Chinese Mobile Browser Market
Everyone knows that mobile is the future. In fact, forget the future, mobile is a big part of the present. And while Chinese internet giants continue to enter and push on the mobile browser front, the...
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Chinese Photo App Adds PM2.5 Image Filter, As If Air Isn’t Already Polluted...
This week I noticed that the Chinese photo-sharing app Vida had joined in the national discussion about China’s polluted skies by adding a PM2.5 photo filter. When the filter is applied to your image,...
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HP to Crack Down on Chinese Supplier Factories Using Student Workers
We’ve written before about high school and vocational college students being coerced into grueling factory work for HTC and key Apple suppliers, Foxconn; it’s clearly an exploitable grey area in...
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Poin Web Offers Japan’s Point Reward System to Indonesian Users
Another Japanese company is eyeing a few slices of the Indonesian market, this time in the form of online points provider Poin Web. The site now offers users in Indonesia free points, redeemable for...
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Nokia Lumia 620 Coming to Indonesia Tomorrow
The latest Nokia Lumia series, the 620, will be launched tomorrow in Indonesia. The Lumia 620 will become the cheapest Windows Phone 8 (WP8) handset in the country, sold at IDR 2,850,000 ($294). BNI...
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Canalys: China’s Huawei, ZTE, and Lenovo Now Among Global Top 5 Smartphone...
The research firm Canalys has unveiled new data for Android shipments in Q4 2012. With Android now powering a third of all mobile phones shipped in that quarter, it’s especially notable that Android...
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Agate Studio Launches an RPG Game for Nokia Feature Phones
Indonesian game developer Agate Studio said today that it has launched an RPG game for Nokia feature phones called Valthirian Arc: Side of Story. The game tells the story about a Valthirian Academy...
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Vuclip Provides Free Educational Videos to Mobile Phone Users
Mobile video service Vuclip announced today that it opens a video portal dedicated to education videos called edu. The videos are created to supplement education for K-12) and higher education across...
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12 Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day Promotions
The festive season is just around the corner. So in light of the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday in the many countries around Asia, and followed immediately by Valentine’s Day, we’ve made a list of...
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In China’s Daily Deals Market, You Now Need $320+ Million Monthly Revenue to...
We’re following China’s daily deals market very closely, digging into quarterly market share data as soon as we can get our hands on it. Today it’s time for Q4 2012 statistics courtesy once again of...
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China: US is Hacking Us, Not the Other Way Around
In a move that has some very interesting parallel’s to China’s attacks on Cisco following a US investigation of Huawei and ZTE, China has responded to the news of the hacking at the New York Times and...
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Adding Fun to Chinese New Year, Google Puts Snake Game Doodle On Homepage
Today is Chinese New Year’s eve. So kids, including myself, are “forced” to do spring cleaning. It’s part of the entire Chinese New Year celebration process of shopping, cleaning, eating, gambling...
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
The impending spring festival holiday hasn’t kept this week from being full of tech news drama. We’ve got special investigations, secret meetings, big acquisitions, and big launches. Read on for the...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Feb. 9, 2013]
Here in the Northeastern US, I’m being buried under feet of snow, and across Asia millions of people are returning home to celebrate the spring festival holiday. But the festivities this weekend...
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