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11 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Here’s our newest weekly startup list, this time featuring eleven young companies from across the region. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively, you can send tips here...
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6 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week [February 17, 2013]
With the New Year happening earlier this week, we’ve got some cool communication stats coming out of China. This coming week, as people head back to work, we’ll be watching the skies to make sure no...
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INAICTA 2013: Submissions Open This Week with a New Emphasis on E-Commerce
The Indonesia ICT Awards (INAICTA) has celebrated the country’s finest tech products as well as supported the ecosystem for the past six years. For the next contest, the seventh INAICTA will take on...
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5,000 Workers at One Chinese Web Company Queue Up for a Cash Bonus [PHOTOS]
Most people in China were working over the weekend so as to catch up after the lengthy Chinese New Year break. But for workers at Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s biggest tech company by revenue and makers...
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Amikom Game Dev Passes 1 Million Downloads And Looks to Inspire More Game...
Back in September, we talked about a game developer community at STMIK Amikom Yogyakarta University called Amikom Game Dev (AGD). Last week, AGD founder Agoes Tri Hariyanto has celebrated its first...
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Kaifu Lee: I’ve Been Banned From Weibo for 3 Days
Entrepreneur and former Google country manager for China, Kaifu Lee, is often outspoken on his Chinese social media presences – and not just about technology issues. Now Lee says that he has been...
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99Designs Holds Fun Contest to Come Up with PS4 Logo
Sony’s Playstation 4 is going to be unveiled this Wednesday. To make things a bit more fun, Australia-based design marketplace 99designs is holding a contest for its users to come up with a logo for...
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Why 100 Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs are Sailing Around Asia Right Now
Somewhere out in the South China Sea right now, there’s a boat-load of entrepreneurs, business people, non-profit folks, and general movers and shakers from Silicon Valley who are heading toward...
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China’s E-Commerce Giant Now Has a Search Engine to Take on Baidu and Google
China’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba, now has a search engine. Using the name of its cloud computing division, the newly-launched search service is at s.aliyun.com and features tabs for...
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Lojai’s Android App Now Supports Credit Card Payments
Today, Indonesian e-commerce site Lojai announced the launch of its Android app. While some might argue that this is just an Android app, there aren’t many e-commerce sites in Indonesia that have...
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Yahoo Japan and GREE Invest $2 Million to Open Social Gaming Joint-Venture...
Yahoo Japan and GREE (TYO:3632) announced today what they had teased a few months back – the launch of a joint-venture company that will focus on developing and running social gaming titles for...
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‘Illegal’ Blackberry Z10 Starts Circulating in Indonesia
Credit: ibnlive.in.com While it is now confirmed that the Blackberry Z10 will be widely available in Indonesia at the end of March, there are a few die-hard fans who are not willing to wait that long....
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LG Optimus G Available for Pre-Order in Indonesia
LG’s flagship Android handset, the Optimus G, is now available for pre-order in Indonesia. Handsets bought during the period will receive an IDR 1 million ($104) discount from the usual price of IDR...
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Scirocco Cloud Aims To Solve Mobile Developers’ Android Test Pain
Scirocco Cloud is a Japan-made (by Sonix Co., Ltd), cloud-based Android compatibility testing platform for developers. The open-source Android mobile operating system is used by many handset brands to...
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Rumor: Tencent Invests in Chinese Social Sharing Platform JiaThis
The last time we heard from Chinese social sharing platform JiaThis, it was because the company had just acquired a smaller Chinese startup to bolster its already-popular social sharing tool, which is...
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Could China Catch Lazy Government Officials With Webcams?
A clip from a TV report about the hidden cameras Spring Festival is usually a time of celebration, but this year it was also a time of embarrassment for some government officials in Hunan province....
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Mobile Commerce Startup ShopSpot Raises $630,000, Works Well Too
Thailand’s mobile commerce startup ShopSpot has raised S$779,000 (US$630,000) from Jungle Ventures (with Singapore government money) and SingTel Innov8. Following a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) model,...
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MeroCampus Creates an Online Marketplace for College Admissions in Nepal
Students can also ‘follow’ chosen subjects via social media from the MeroCampus site. Aiming to be an online hub for students and educational establishments in Nepal, MeroCampus can connect learners to...
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Massive Chinese IT Community CSDN Looking for Big Financing Round
Unless you’re a software developer, the last time you thought about CSDN was probably when it got hacked around a year ago and passwords for 6 million users were stolen. But despite that, the site...
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A Shocking Expose of China’s Black PR Industry Implicates Government...
Almost everyone knows about the public relations industry, but fewer people know about what in China is referred to as Black PR, the underground internet industry that has evolved with the spread of...
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