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Truecaller Now Installed on Every 7th Smartphone in India, Eyes Japan and...
Sweden-based crowdsourcing phone directory app Truecaller announced today that the company now processes around 500 million name and number lookups each month, a 70 percent increase since we talked...
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Innovation Works-Backed LeTV Announces a New Set-Top Box, and This One’s Free
It looks like Xiaomi won’t be the only company shipping shiny new set-top boxes around China this April. LeTV, which you may recall Innovation Works invested in back in September, has announced the...
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Chinese Teen Murders His Parents So He Can Play Web Games in Peace
Li Tao was in middle school when he first got into web games. His parents, poor Henan farmers, worried that he wasn’t spending enough time on his schoolwork, especially when he started staying out late...
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HotelQuickly Books Your Hotels Really Quickly, Launches in 6 Asian Countries
HotelQuickly is a mobile-only service that helps users book hotels really quickly. It’s available in six countries: Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. It provides four to...
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Photos of Xiaomi’s Set-Top Box in Action
Xiaomi’s set-top box is coming soon, and that means that after a long wait, we’re finally starting to see some of them out in the real world. The folks at Sohu Digital got their hands on one and were...
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HomeAway Makes Third Asian Deal in Tie-Up With Singapore’s Travelmob
Having already buddied up with China’s TuJia and Singapore-based Wego last year, today HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY) has agreed another Asian tie-up – this time with Travelmob. As regular readers will...
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Messaging Apps Invade Asia, Now the Most Active Social Networks in Japan and...
We’ve been following the rapid progress of messaging apps very closely across Asia, and we’ve even noted that they might be a threat to the dominance of Facebook in the region. Now we have a clearer...
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Watch Tokyo’s YouTube Space Get Taken Over by a Huge Rube Goldberg Machine...
Yes, that happened. Remember the ‘YouTube Space’ studio that opened up in Tokyo last month, the first of its kind in Asia? Well, it’s already being put to fun and creative use, as shown in this video...
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One Chinese University Pays Students to Monitor Their Peers’ Online Activities
One Chinese university is being roundly mocked and castigated on social media in China today after it was revealed that the faculty pays students to monitor their peers’ online activities. Now dubbed...
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Is North Korea Hiring Chinese Hackers?
Source: theodoresworld.net With the latest report that South Korean banks and news broadcasters’ servers were possibly hacked by North Korea – and the North earlier accusing the US of cyber attacks –...
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India’s Zomato Launches Restaurant Listings in Manila (and Singapore Might be...
Not long after expanding to Europe with restaurant listings for London, now India’s Zomato has launched for foodies in Manila, capital of the Philippines. It marks the first move into Southeast Asia...
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma Talks E-Commerce, Ecosystems, Slams the Broken “Amazon...
242 million Chinese people shop online, and a great many of them do so on e-commerce sites run by China’s Alibaba. So when founder and chairman Jack Ma talks about the industry, a lot of people sit up...
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Facebook Now Has Over 12 Million Users in Vietnam
In October 2012, WeAreSocial calculated that Facebook had hit 8.5 million users in Vietnam to overtake local rival Zing as the top social network. Today Facebook is at 12 million. That’s one million...
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How E-Commerce King Taobao Is Expanding Out of China (Startup Asia Preview)
Taobao is a household name in China, being the online marketplace that first got the country going nuts for e-commerce. But Alibaba-owned Taobao is not necessarily confined to mainland China, and it’s...
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Japan’s Flash Sales Frenzy Continues with Series B Funding for Luxa
Selling everything from pricey sake to quality skincare products, Luxa.jp, as its name might suggest, is a luxury-oriented e-commerce site. Its main draw is that its items are sold at useful discounts...
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BREAKING: Rakuten Splits With MNC Group, Leaving Indonesia E-Commerce Site in...
Japan’s Nikkei is reporting that Rakuten’s (JSD:4755) e-commerce efforts in Indonesia are now in doubt with the dissolution of its joint-venture company with Indonesian media company MNC Group. The...
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Tencent Plans Three-Pronged Attack to Monetize WeChat
Tencent’s WeChat mobile chat application has been taking the world — especially China — by storm. But as Tencent knows from watching Sina Weibo, user numbers doesn’t always translate into revenue. So...
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Does China’s Games Industry Need Its Own ESRB-Style Ratings Board?
China’s games industry is massive, but along with the massive industry have come massive problems. Chief among those problems is the effect games are having on children. Just within the past few...
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Learn to Design and Code at Startup Academy
Singapore’s Startup Academy teaches folks to design and code. Powered by Subhransu Behera (SAP), Joyce Huang (Microsoft), Jaryl Sim (Tinkerbox Studios), Adrian Chua (DivZero Consultancy), and Jeffrey...
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Perx: 650K Chops, 130K Downloads, Rolls Out Loyalty Tasks Feature
Singapore-based mobile loyalty app, Perx, has been growing steadily over the past year. In my last email exchange with co-founder Andrew Roth he revealed that Perx now has over 130,000 downloads who...
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