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Crazy Weibo Rumors Report Tencent CEO Pony Ma’s Death (But He’s Totally Fine)
Perhaps some wires got crossed, or perhaps someone on weibo got even more tired of the spring festival news lull than I am and decided to drum up something interesting. Whatever the reason, something...
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Child Disappearances and Serial Killers in China’s Internet Cafes
In early January, when 12-year-old Wei Xuanlong (pictured) finished his last test of the semester, he didn’t go home. Instead, according to the Guangzhou Daily, he went straight to the local internet...
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How V-Cube Makes Enterprise Tech Sexy
V-cube is a Japanese company that provides visual communications — basically video and web conference solutions — for enterprises. It was founded in October 1998 by Naoaki Mashita first as a web and...
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8 Startup Lessons on Working with Big Brands
Simon is currently CEO at Frenzoo. He was previously APAC head of emerging technology at Juniper Networks. He is an angel investor in startups, and a writer on startups and gaming. Follow his blog or...
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Appconomy Builds Up its Mobile Payments and Loyalty Cards Service for China
Chinese consumers have plenty of choices if they want to use their smartphones to get discount coupons, but we’ve seen very few startups try to provide a lot more complex things like mobile payments...
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Korean Gaming Giant Nexon Hits $1.2 Billion Revenue in 2012, Marches on to...
Nexon’s (TYO:3659) Q4 2012 results are just in. In brief, the Korean gaming giant did okay. Last quarter saw Nexon hitting ¥30.94 billion (US$329.29 million) in consolidated revenue which was up 24...
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Crowdsourced Phone Directory App Truecaller is a Hit in India, Passes 11...
Global collaborative phone directory app Truecaller is based in Sweden, but it’s proving to be a hit in India and other parts of Asia. Truecaller revealed today that it now has 11 million users...
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CocCoc, Another Big Vietnamese Search Engine is Here
On January 30th, CocCoc, a new Vietnamese search engine, arrived on the scene. It’s the second big homegrown Vietnamese search engine to appear in the past three months. And by big, I mean: Well,...
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Tokyo Otaku Mode Attracts Funding for Its Manga-Mad Portal
We’ve seen the niche community called Tokyo Otaku Mode pass 10 million Facebook ‘likes’ and launch the awesome Manga Camera app, and now the fledgling social startup has another major milestone. This...
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Will China’s Ban on TV Ads for Luxury Goods Boost Web Ads For Baidu and Youku?
Coming soon to a Chinese website near you. Last week, we learned of a ban on TV advertising luxury goods in China issued by SARFT that is preventing luxury goods advertisers from reaching their...
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Call for Technopreneurs: Jakarta Founder Institute Opens Applications for...
Jakarta Founder Institute (JKTFI) is calling all aspiring technopreneurs in Indonesia as the incubator has opened registration for 2013’s spring batch program. The incubation offers four months of...
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Copycats Steal Design of Chinese-Developed Markdown App
Usually we hear about stories of Chinese copycats aping foreign tech products, and examples of that aren’t hard to find. But thanks to Twitter user Samuel Wade and our own former editor Rick, we’ve...
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WeChat Moves Towards Monetization, Beta-Testing ‘Custom Menu’ Feature for Brands
Tencent’s WeChat (known as Weixin in China) is big — like 300 million users big. But Chinese tech companies have learned from weibo that hundreds of millions of users doesn’t necessarily mean giant...
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Indonesians Can Use 110 as Emergency Number Now
Kompas reported yesterday that Indonesia’s emergency number 110 is fully in operation since the beginning of this year, replacing the previous 112 emergency number. At the moment Telkom users,...
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e27 Raises $614,000 From B Dash Ventures, Pinehurst Advisors, Ardent Capital,...
Singapore’s technology-focused media company e27 has announced that it has concluded a S$760,000 ($614,000) financing round from B Dash Ventures, Pinehurst Advisors, Ardent Capital, Dan Neary, and...
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Indian Startup Wants to Find Your Facebook PairBuddy (So Maybe You’ll Bang...
It’s Valentine’s Day, so those without an object of affection might be looking for a new way to find a date. That’s why an Indian startup is today lanuching PairBuddy. It’s a lot like the more...
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Tokyo Becomes Asia’s First YouTube Space Location
YouTube announced today the opening of Asia’s first YouTube Space in Tokyo. The Space can be used free of charge as a collaboration and production facility for all members of YouTube partner program,...
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Backed by DMP, WearYouWant Aims to Ride on Thailand’s E-Commerce Growth
Thailand’s WearYouWant is a B2B2C fashion e-commerce site. That means, it helps other retailers to feature and sell their products to consumers online. It was founded in October 2011 by Julien Chalté...
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Greengar, Asia’s Only Contestant at Women 2.0, Releases Smartboard App
Today, the Women 2.0 Conference is happening in San Francisco. The event, which “features successful women entrepreneurs who reached milestones of billions” with web businesses, will be having a Pitch...
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Hong Kong’s Surround App Translates Sina Weibo Content into English
Read any news report out of China today, and chances are it’ll include a smarmy comment or two from a netizen on Sina Weibo. The 400 million-strong microblogging site is almost synonymous with the...
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