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Report: Samsung Still Dominates in China, Sold 30 Million Phones in 2012
These days on the subway in Shanghai, I seem to see more people stretching their palms around a massive Samsung Galaxy Note 2 or a Galaxy SIII than clutching iPhones. So I’m not too surprised to learn...
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‘Gamechanics Talk’ Event to Discuss Future of Gamification in Indonesia
Online gaming media Segitiga.net, together with Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) will hold a talk-show and seminars about how cool games can be when used for things other than entertainment. The...
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Alibaba Appoints Jonathan Lu as New CEO, Will Take Ma’s Desk on May 10
Jack Ma, the founder of China’s top e-commerce company, announced a couple of months ago that he’d step down from his role as Alibaba Group CEO. This afternoon, Alibaba has named Ma’s successor,...
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Appota Gets Vietnamese Mobile Users Paying For Apps
In a developing informal economy like Vietnam, bootlegging and cracking is rampant. Patents and copyrights aren’t respected. Almost every iPhone I’ve seen is jailbroken or illegally unlocked from a...
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Samsung Galaxy S3 Dominates Selular Awards 2013 in Indonesia
Nokia Indonesia country manager Martin Chirotarrab winning one of the awards at Selular Awards 2013.Credit: News.Viva.co.id Indonesian gadget news site Selular 1 held its annual gadget prize ceremony,...
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BeLAUNCH Now Open to Indian Startups, and Readers Can Get Discounts for the...
It’s only about seven weeks until the globally-minded Korean startup conference beLAUNCH takes place in Seoul on May 1 and 2. But there’s still time for readers to nab tickets and startups to apply to...
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After Success Overseas, Colorbox Is Bringing Games To Vietnam
Startups always seem to grow up around games. Steve Jobs used to work at Atari and Bill Gates used to love playing poker. A bunch of entrepreneurs I’ve met in Ho Chi Minh city confess to playing games...
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Yahoo Japan Acquires Dreampass
Yahoo Japan has acquired Dreampass for an undisclosed sum. Dreampass, according to Startup Dating, is a group-buy site for movie tickets. Dreampass is a graduate of Open Network Lab in Ebisu, Tokyo....
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Why Revenue Matters: The Ookbee Story (Startup Asia Preview)
I enjoy my chats with Ookbee founder Moo Natavudh (pictured), whenever I meet him in Bangkok, Thailand. Like a true Asian entrepreneur and leader, he thinks hard about revenue and keeping the...
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15 Web Entrepreneurs Under 30 Doing Awesome Stuff in China
Forbes just put up a list of 30 young disruptors in China working across all kinds of fields. But its list gives no information about any of the entrepreneurs’ ventures – and all its links are broken –...
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Japan’s VPN Gate Brings Free VPNs to the Masses
If the world were cooler, this is what VPN tunnels would look like. VPNs are useful for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that they help you hop over China’s Great Firewall and evade the...
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Report: Xiaomi’s Set-Top Box Finally Coming April 9
China’s Xiaomi has proven itself to be pretty great at selling phones, but the company surprised a lot of people when it announced it would be selling a set-top box last fall. Unfortunately, shortly...
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VNG Releases Giai Dieu Vui, A Vietnamese Version of SongPop
Continuing its strengthening mobile strategy, VNG released Giai Dieu Vui over the Lunar New Year break, a new iPhone game that gets users to compete with each other over their favorite types of music....
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ZTE Responds to Rumor that Big Layoffs Coming in 2013, Kind of Denies It
In response to a report quoting anonymous sources in Investment Bulletin suggesting that ZTE would lay off as much as twenty percent of its work force in the coming year, an anonymous ZTE...
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China’s Online Drug Stores Face Stiff Competition for Tiny Market
China’s e-commerce industry has exploded over the past several years, and with it successful speciality shops have cropped up online for just about every type of product you could imagine. But there’s...
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China Mobile and China Unicom Agree WeChat is a Threat, But Can’t Agree on...
Tencent is not a well-liked company at any of China’s major telecoms. First there was QQ, the instant messaging service that used massive amounts of 2G network bandwidth and kept users away from...
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Indonesian Digital Comic Game Wanara’s Second Episode is now Out on Android
Remember the Indonesian folklore-themed app that we looked at a while back? Called the Adventure of Wanara: Garuda Riders, it combines gaming and a comic book series and was released back in November....
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How Will 3D Printing Change China?
Anyone who follows tech news even a little bit should be aware of 3D printing by this point. If you’re not, here’s a quick video primer on the technology and how it works. The short version is that 3D...
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‘Despite All the Money, I’m Not Happy.’ Startup Lessons from Sohu CEO Charles...
Sohu founder and CEO Charles Zhang is, by the standards of most tech entrepreneurs, doing very well. His startup has long since blossomed into a full-blown tech giant, and success has brought him both...
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Fuubo: Finally a Weibo App for Android That Isn’t Fugly
As much as we enjoy using the lively (though oft-gagged) Chinese social network that is Sina Weibo, the official Weibo app is a bit of a UI mess. Worse still, not a single third-party Weibo app for...
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