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Let the Online Price Comparison Battle in Southeast Asia Begin
The price comparison site battle in Southeast Asia is heating up. OK, maybe the battle isn’t in full swing yet. But the online price comparison space is definitely getting a little crowded in...
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First Shanghai Barcamp of the Year Ready to Spring Into Action
A snap of the previous Shanghai Barcamp (Image: Techyizu on Flickr) Later this week, Shanghai BarCamp Spring 2013 is back in action with the usual mix of sessions, workshops, and presentations. Among...
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Vietnam’s Microchip Industry Keeps Getting Bigger
If you know anything about the beginning of Silicon Valley, you know that it all started with a group of men called the Traitorous Eight, who worked in a company called Fairchild Semiconductor. They...
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China’s M-Commerce Shopping Spree to Hit $27.1 Billion in 2014, Surpassing US...
We recently looked into China’s vast e-commerce market and saw that, by 2014, China will have an estimated 322 million e-shoppers who’ll spend about $285 billion that year. But how about mobile...
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Blackberry Z10 is an Early Hit in Indonesia with 7,000 Sold So far
After all the Android hype in Indonesia, it seems like Blackberry (NASDAQ:BBRY) remains very much popular here. Since the launch of the all-new Blackberry Z10 a few days ago, there have been around...
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Kaifu Lee: Check Out My Chart of How Often I Get Censored by Sina Weibo
Despite insisting that he’s no activist and is just keen on debating with his 33.4 million followers on Sina Weibo, entrepreneur and former Google China country manager, Kaifu Lee, finds his Weibo...
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Samwer Brothers Kickstart $193 Million Global Founders Capital
The makers of Rocket Internet, Oliver Samwer and Marc Samwer, together with Fabian Siegal, co-founder of ClickandBuy (sold to Deutsche Telekom) and Delivery Hero have kickstarted their €150 million...
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Indonesian Top Internet Service Providers Accused of Spying on Users
Credit: slidingmind.com Three Indonesian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Telkom, Biznet, and Matrixnet Global are somewhat under fire now as they will face 15-year imprisonment charges if they are...
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An Experiment in HTML5 Gaming Inside WeChat
We get the feeling that the hugely popular messaging app WeChat will eventually move into social gaming. (We asked earlier this afternoon but a Tencent rep declined to comment). Until then, the closest...
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How To Get Featured On The Google Play Store: Lessons from Cubie Messenger
I’ve been watching the messaging app battle for a few months now and it’s really hard to say who will win out by the end of the year. There are just too many players. It reminds me of the battle...
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Xiaomi to Start Selling Smart Shoes (Yup, You Read That Right)
For a while now, Xiaomi has been taking advantage of its “cool factor” branding to sell lots of things that aren’t smartphones (like this t-shirt that pictures the Xiaomi mascot tinkering with an...
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Rumor: ZTE Executives Detained in Mongolia Bribery Investigation
It seems every day we come across another rumor about Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE, but unlike last week’s rumor, this one has nothing to do with the company’s dire financial situation. China’s...
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Douban User Accounts Hacked, Used to Inflate the Rating of a Crappy Movie
When Douban user “jenny_junyi” woke up last Sunday, she found a surprise waiting for her in her Douban account. Overnight, she had apparently watched a movie called Runaway Woman, and rated it five...
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Nonstop Games Raises $2.9 Million, Makes Singapore Home
Singapore-based Nonstop Games has raised a $2.9 million seed round led by Creandum and Lifeline Ventures. The investment allows Nonstop Games to continue building its upcoming free-to-play (F2P) game,...
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Microsoft Pushes Surface RT and WP8 in China With New Online Storefront
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has just expanded its retail channels in China by opening up a store within Tmall, China’s top B2C e-commerce site. Microsoft already has a standalone online store for China,...
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Indonesia Loves to Guess: See Which Locally-Made Game Booted WeChat from Top...
Do you guys remember the Indonesian game Icon Pop Quiz which received props from Korean singer PSY in December? Well, its developer, Alegrium, launched a sequel to its popular Icon Pop game called...
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In Vietnam, TapMee Uses Locations To Help You Meet New People
Tapmee, a new Vietnam-made location-based social networking app just launched today on Android. The app, which has been in closed beta since 2011, is being developed by five people. It basically...
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Check Out the Biggest Winners and Losers among Chinese Web IPOs (CHART)
One is worth thousands of percent more today than when it IPO’d, while another is worth a mere dollar per share. Oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. 2013 is a year in which we’ll likely...
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Crowdsourcing Week: Apply and Battle at Crowdfunding Startup Challenge
Crowdsourcing Week is throwing a Crowdfunding Startup Challenge. Interested startups can submit their business plan here. The top 10 finalists chosen by Crowdsourcing week’s panel of judges — Yen-Lu...
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Veritrans, Indonesia’s Payment Gateway, Relocates Office While Growing 100%...
Indonesian payment gateway for credit cards, Veritrans, just held a get together yesterday to celebrate its relocation to a new office space. During that get-together, we talked with CEO Ryu Kawano...
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