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Sticker Shock at BlackBerry Z10 Price in India, Will Cost $250 More Than a...
BlackBerry has just put a price-tag on its brand-new BlackBerry Z10 in India, where it’ll cost Rs 43,490 (US$800) in an unlocked state. That’s close to $100 more than many Indian gadget fans seem to...
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Illegal E-Commerce: Buying Guns Online in China is Apparently Pretty Easy
Like many of our readers, I was intrigued by my colleague Enricko’s recent post on an Indonesian e-commerce site selling guns online. I have often seen it said that it’s equally easy to find guns...
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Chinese Teen Tries to Murder Entire Family for Restricting His Internet Access
We here at Tech in Asia love the internet as much as anyone. In fact, we probably love it more than most people. But we apparently don’t love it as much as a Sichuan teen nicknamed Xiao Long who tried...
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Trains Are the Social Networks of North Korea
North Korea is, to put it mildly, not a country where information flows easily. The web is tightly controlled, and while the country did just add an uncensored 3G mobile network, it’s only for foreign...
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The Lean And Kaizen Movement In Vietnam
If you don’t know lean and agile, you probably don’t work in a hip tech company. They’re two of the biggest trends in software development today and some consider them to be essential to...
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Line App to Hit Nokia Asha Phones in March, Keen to Chat Up Emerging Markets
Japan-made messaging app Line is keen to chat up users in emerging markets by launching a version of its app for the budget Nokia Asha phones next month. NHN Japan says today that it’s “exciting news...
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Asia, Give Up On The Dream Of Being Silicon Valley
(Image: theredphoenix.wordpress.com) One of my favorite jokes about Silicon Valley goes like this: A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar. None of them buy anything. The bar is declared a...
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Appconomy Makes Custom Apps for Merchants on China’s Taobao
China’s seminal e-commerce site Taobao, which enables anyone to become an amateur shopkeeper, has over a million merchants on its platform. This is where the Sino-US startup Appconomy sees a niche to...
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Indonesian Telcos to Join the Chat App Battleground
The fight is on! Back in December, there was a discussion event among Indonesian telcos about what they should do regarding so-called OTT (over the top) players choking their profits. OTT, by the way,...
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Facebook Messenger Targets Indonesia and Southeast Asia With New Telco Deals
Facebook announced yesterday that it will partner with 18 operators in 14 countries to offer free or discounted data access to Facebook Messenger in the coming months. Asian operators participating in...
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Australian Property Listings Startup Welcomes Chinese Buyers to the Land of Oz
One of the most remarkable aspects of the economic boom in China has been the overseas property buying spree among some wealthier Chinese citizens. That huge demand is a great business prospect for a...
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New Research Reveals China’s Potential for a Mobile Banking Revolution
Researcher Patrick Ainslie calls it ‘handshakes over hetongs’ (the Mandarin word for ‘contract’). It’s an opportunity, an open challenge even, to reach 250 million people in China and potentially...
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Vietnamese Developer FPT To Open An Office in Myanmar
Her cellphone might be on a Vietnamese telco soon. (Image: binaryapi.ap.org) It seems everybody is jumping on the Myanmar bandwagon. FPT, arguably Vietnam’s largest software development company, is...
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Blackberry Launches ‘BBM Money’ for Cash Transfers in Indonesia
Credit: TechCrunch.com Bloomberg reports today that Blackberry (NASDAQ:BBRY) has announced the launch of its brand-new BBM Money feature in conjunction with Indonesian bank Permata. BBM Money is a new...
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Oi Zoi Oi: Vietnam’s New E-Commerce Aggregator
With the over 30 e-commerce competitors in Vietnam that I wrote about last month, from daily deals to vertical lingerie sites, it’s hard to get a hold on where the best prices are. That’s where Oi Zoi...
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Apple iPhone Now Nearly 25% of China’s Smartphone Market, but Android’s...
Market research firm Kantar has recently released its data from January 2013, and it shows Apple’s iPhone ascendant, but still a long way behind rival Android when it comes to smartphone operating...
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Shanda Games Sees Rough Q4, Revenue Drops Below Rival Changyou
Shanda is one of the pioneers of China’s gaming and internet industries, and the split-off Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME) has long been a dominant figure in the games industry. But could those days be...
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Indian Startup DepartedLife is a Social Network for Dead People
As time goes on, it becomes clear that this whole internet thing isn’t just a passing fad. Yet somehow, as popular as social networking has become around the world, no one has really managed to solve...
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Blackberry Z10 Coming to Indonesia on March 4th
The Blackberry Z10 will officially arrive in Indonesia on March 4th. This was confirmed by Yolanda Nainggolan, the PR manager of Blackberry Indonesia, to Kompas during the BBM Money launch yesterday....
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How Online Games Can Build the Internet Industry (Startup Asia Preview)
Alan Tan, co-founder at Shanda If you head over to China and ask any gamers on the street, it’s likely that they’ve heard of Shanda (盛大) or perhaps even played some of their games online. Shanda is one...
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