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Nexian’s 8-Inch Tablet Looks to Steal the Indonesian Market
Indonesian handset manufacturer Nexian launched six new devices yesterday: three feature phones, two low-end smartphones, and the one I think is most interesting – an 8-inch Android tablet called S...
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Car Sharing Startup iCarsClub Raises $482,000, Expands to China
iCarsClub, a peer-to-peer marketplace for renting cars, today announced that it has successfully raised S$589,000 (US$482,000) from Red Dot Ventures, where the latter is under the National Research...
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Redmart on East Ventures Funding: “We like investors that are entrepreneurs”
Late this afternoon, Singapore-based online supermarket Redmart confirmed that it has received an undisclosed sum of investment from East Ventures. The investment follows the same terms as Golden Gate...
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Indonesian Court Uses Skype to Hear Testimonies for the First Time Ever
Source image: guamcourts.org Technology has definitely made our lives easier. And the Indonesian legal system is looking to be open to such perks as Detik reported a couple of days ago about the first...
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Happy Ending’s Shock Advertising Teaches you to Think Different
Yesterday, Minh wrote about Happy Ending, an e-commerce flower shop in Vietnam that has captured a lot of attention on Facebook and Twitter. While some folks blast Happy Ending’s advertising or...
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Founder of Fetch Plus: Many Women Carry the ‘Survivalist’ Mentality
In celebration of international women’s day and all things feminine, we have also decided to have a panel discussion on female entrepreneurship at the upcoming Startup Asia Singapore 2013. That’s...
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Qihoo’s Search Engine Market Share Up 2%, Mainly at Expense of Baidu
When we last looked at search engine market share in China, the bruiser of a newcomer, Qihoo’s (NYSE:QIHU) So.com search service, was slowly making inroads on its major rival. But new data from the...
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The Words That Cause Skype to Spy on You, Snitch to Chinese Authorities
It has been known for years that the made-for-China version of Skype, run in conjunction with local web company TOM Online, spies on its users. Now a 27-year-old computer-science graduate student,...
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Starhub Partners with Taiwan’s KKbox to Launch its Own Spotify, Music Anywhere
Singapore telco Starhub has officially announced Music Anywhere, an online digital music streaming service and store, in collaboration with Taiwan’s Spotify-like company KKBox which has over 10...
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Airbnb’s Voyage Into Asia (Startup Asia Preview)
Ole Ruch’s on the right. via flickr.com Airbnb is one of my favorite startups out of the Silicon Valley because I think it’s one of the leaders in collaborative consumption and is disrupting the...
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Travel China in Video Games: Western Developers Increasingly Looking to China...
Call it a reflection of China’s growing soft power. Call it a response to gamers getting tired of playing through the same brown middle eastern environments over and over again. Whatever the reason,...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week (March 9th)
This week was jam-packed with interesting news from across the region, no doubt warming us up for Startup Asia just around the corner. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and thanks for reading!...
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12 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Here’s our newest weekly list featuring a bunch of hot startups from all over Asia. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively, you can send tips here and/or tell us about...
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Rakuten Branches Out to Asia (Startup Asia Preview)
Japanese B2B2C e-commerce company, Rakuten, isn’t new to Asia expansion. Besides Japan, to date it has operations in Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Its China venture, Lekutian, with Baidu,...
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
As always, China is blowing up with news. This week startups are acquiring new cyber real estate and posting horrible to great earnings. Either way, keeping up with China is a huge project and the...
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Is Tencent Really a Leader in Gaming Innovation?
When Fast Company published its list of the most innovative companies in gaming, it ruffled a lot of feathers. One-hit-wonders Rovio (the developers of Angry Birds) topping the list seemed weird...
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Leaders Make Hard Choices
A good friend who runs a startup recently told me how important it is to have a key leader (or some call it dictator) running the team. I couldn’t agree more. A recent piece wonderfully written by Mark...
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Singapore’s Semantics3 and Padlet to Pitch at YCombinator’s Demo Day
On March 26, two Singapore startups will mark their appearance at YCombinator’s Demo Day. That’s when the influential seed accelerator’s annual batch of 47 startups presents to investors. Representing...
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Xiaomi: 15 Million Phones to be Sold in 2013
We know that the rookie phone-maker Xiaomi sold 7.19 million smartphones in 2012, so how about 2013? According to founder Lei Jun, Xiaomi will mark its second-ever full year in the phone biz by more...
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WeChat Tops Indonesia’s iOS and Android Charts Thanks to TV Ads [VIDEO]
The China-based messaging app WeChat is seeing explosive growth in Indonesia right now. WeChat has reached the number one overall position on the country’s iOS and Android charts a few days ago. The...
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