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13 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Happy Lunar New Year to all our readers! 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...
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Hollywood Celebrities Get Chatty with Chinese Fans on WeChat
Last summer we noted how Western brands like Starbucks and Buick were quick to jump on the messaging app WeChat as a way of reaching out to Chinese consumers. Now Hollywood celebrities are doing the...
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Sina Weibo Clocks 34,977 Posts in First SECOND of Chinese New Year
Yesterday saw the ushering in of the Chinese New Year. It seems that everyone who wasn’t busy setting off fireworks at the exact moment that the year of the snake started was instead posting to Sina...
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StartupKita Participants Encourage Indonesian Startups to Join in
I often hear entrepreneurs in Indonesia saying that they want to talk about the real issues facing their startup businesses in order to get feedback on how to solve them. These startup team members...
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British Retailer Argos Goes for Chinese Clicks with New E-Commerce Store
British retailer Argos has been a mainstay of High Streets across the UK for decades, and now it’s aiming to become a byword for online shopping in China. Argos’ parent company, Home Retail Group...
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Will 2013 be the Year We See More Educational Startups in Indonesia? I Hope So
credit: england.edu Indonesia’s largest telco Telkomsel, together with parent company Telkom, announced yesterday that it has opened wifi access to 100 higher education institutions and 1,000 secondary...
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How Mobile SMS Powers a Digital Bank Network for Indonesia’s Rural Population
Founded by Joseph Gaol in 2008, VOX, which stands for Virtual Online Exchange, aims to help the rural population in Indonesia set up bank accounts. According to Joseph, Indonesia has over 220 million...
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China Sends 1.1 Billion Holiday Greeting Texts, But Texting is Losing Ground...
We already saw that Sina Weibo had a bang-up morning this past holiday weekend, with over 34,000 posts in a single second commemorating the new Year of the Snake. But in recent years, Chinese people...
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India-Based Startup Trip Tern Offers the Most Painless Travel Planning I’ve...
For some people, planning a trip down to the last detail is part of the fun. Not everyone enjoys poring over guidebooks for hours on end, and for those people, there’s Trip Tern. Trip Tern is an...
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14 Popular E-Commerce Sites in Singapore
Singapore has seen a huge rise in e-commerce activity over the past few years, with some e-commerce startups receiving investment or even proceeding to expand across the Asia-Pacific region. Here’s a...
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11 Hot Mobile Messaging Apps from Asia and How They’re Super-Innovative
With the numbers Rick released on mobile messaging apps growth, and Willis’ post on how heated the mobile messaging battle is getting, I thought I’d take a look at the killer features that make...
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Sex and Gaming in China: Is it Time for Gamers to Grow Up?
Warning: This story contains images that may not be safe for your workplace! Last week, I wrote up a story about a World of Warcraft player who caused a bit of a ruckus online after sleeping with some...
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Coda Payments Partners With Axis, Launches PulsaQ in Indonesia
Today, Coda Payments has partnered with 20-million-subscriber-strong Indonesian telco Axis Telekom to launch PulsaQ (a play on words meaning “my mobile credit” in Indonesian) in Indonesia. PulsaQ is a...
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‘FreeWare’ Co-Working Space Holds Free Sharing Sessions Every Week in Jakarta
Freeware is a free co-working space in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, powered by venture capital firm Grupara and public energy company Medco Energi. Officially opened last month, Freeware also holds...
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Multiply Starts Taking Donations for Indonesian Children with Cancer
February is the month of love, due to the Valentine’s Day, but e-commerce site Multiply Indonesia wants to focus on another day – International Childhood Cancer Day on February 15th. With a social...
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By 2016, China Will Have 423 Million E-Commerce Shoppers Spending $457...
Regular readers will already know that there are now over 200 million Chinese e-commerce shoppers who are spending about $40,000 per second. But with over half a billion people online in China, there’s...
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New Jobs Portal Focuses on a Fresher Experience for Jobseekers
CTO Eric Ngadiman during Karir Rakyat’s launch event. Late last month, a new Indonesian job portal launched, called Karir Rakyat (meaning “people’s career”). It offers yet another alternative for...
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5 Popular iOS Jailbreaking and App Piracy Tools in China
Just because Chinese consumers love your smartphones, it doesn’t mean they like your mobile ecosystem. In fact, they more than likely hate it. That’s the conclusion that can be drawn from the fact...
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WTF: Indonesian E-Commerce Site for Illegal Guns
We like specialist e-commerce sites in Indonesia, but we were certainly not expecting something like this. There’s one Indonesian website that sells illegal guns. Gudang Senjata (meaning “weapon...
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Zalora Indonesia and Philippines Celebrate Anniversaries with Huge Sales
Fashion e-commerce sites Zalora Indonesia and Philippines are offering interesting sales programs today, both in relation to their first birthdays. The Indonesian site is offering a 100 percent cash...
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