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Groupon Singapore Shoppers Can Now Buy School Meals For Poor Children Across...
While we’re snapping up daily deals online, some children in the world are struggling to find even a daily meal. That’s why Groupon Singapore has partnered up with the World Food Program (WFP) to take...
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Ancient China is Now Online with Google Art Project
Google Art Project took off in 2011 with the aim to make the world’s great cultural artifacts viewable online. But mainland China has always been a sizable omission from its digital archives. That has...
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Time For Southeast Asia to Get Flirty: WeChat Adds ‘Look Around’ Feature on...
The China-made messaging app WeChat launched on BlackBerry late last year, taking aim at potential users in Southeast Asia and other BB-loving areas. But WeChat for BB OS 5/6/7 lacked quite a few key...
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Keewi’s Story and the Secrets to Building a Successful Startup in Vietnam
At Startup Asia, Mike Tran will swing by to give us all an introduction to the Vietnamese startup and technology scene. So I thought I’d take a chance to sit down with him so you can find out who he...
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Connection Error: Indonesian Telco Smartfren Under Fire Amidst Prolonged...
Indonesian telco and handset manufacturer Smartfren is in hot water right now as there are a huge number of complaints being thrown onto the company’s Facebook page about the prolonged internet...
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Got Game: Japan’s NTT Docomo to Launch ‘D Game’ Portal Tomorrow with China...
Japan’s NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) is buddying up with another giant telco, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), to bring its mobile gaming portal to an overseas market for the first time ever. Starting from...
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Foreshadowing For Future Fees? China Unicom Begins Tracking Data Traffic from...
We’ve already written about how China’s telecoms are concerned about over-the-top (OTT) apps like WeChat, and last week China Mobile hinted at one possible way telecoms might look to get some of the...
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With Market Share Shrinking, Bing’s China Dream is in Serious Danger
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has never been a major player in China. The company itself conceded that last fall when it all but abandoned Chinese language search, opting instead to focus on what it...
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360Buy Employees Abusing Power Over Merchants for Bribes, Free Gifts
China’s e-commerce market may be gigantic and hugely profitable, but it’s also still a little bit like the wild west, as regulators are still trying to figure out the best way to oversee the industry...
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AdzCentral’s Story and How it Connects the Dots in Ad Tech
Ad tech is quite a confusing arena for most folks. There are a number of stakeholders in the game ranging from agencies, demand-side platforms (DSP), data management platforms (DMP), ad exchanges, ad...
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Samsung Pours Another $3.2 Billion Into Vietnam
Samsung (005930:KS) built its first manufacturing plant in Vietnam in 2009, pumping in US$700 million to build it. In 2012, the value of the exports from this plant exceeded $12 billion, that’s up...
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QQ, China’s Top IM, Launches As a Facebook App
This is how QQ looks as a Facebook app. With 798 million monthly active users, Tencent’s (HKG:0700) QQ instant messenger is far and away China’s most-used social network. Some of its users are...
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LoveByte: 100,000 Downloads, 3 Million Messages Sent
About eight months after LoveByte was first launched, the couples’ messaging app today has more than 100,000 downloads in 96 countries. In total, its users have sent three million messages and 700,000...
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China’s Renren Looks to Emulate the Sexting Success of Snapchat
China’s Facebook-like Renren (NYSE:RENN) looks set to be the first major Chinese web company to launch a Snapchat clone. Called FeiFei, leaked images of the upcoming Renren product shows that it...
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Japan’s Metaps Teams Up With Appota To Monetize Apps in Vietnam
Metaps, the Android monetization platform out of Japan that just secured $11 million in series B funding, is today teaming up with Vietnam’s Appota, an iOS and Android app monetization and...
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SoftBank to Take Majority Stake In ‘Puzzle and Dragons’ Maker GungHo
Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on Twitter and his blog. This article is republished with his permission. This is big: Japanese...
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Kreditmart Lets Indonesians Purchase Goods in Installments Without Credit Cards
Credit card adoption in Indonesia is still very slow, with only 13.4 million credit cards issued up until 2012, which makes up a 4.5 percent penetration rate with most holders having two credit cards....
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CheckInTonight Books Your Hotels at the Very Last Minute
Cambodia’s CheckInTonight is a mobile app that helps users find hotels and book them quickly and cheaply on the very day you need a place to rest your head. CheckinTonight’s representative Ciaran...
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No More 3G in North Korea for Tourists
Well, that was fast. Just weeks after allowing tourists to North Korea to purchase SIM cards with 3G data capabilities and uncensored web access, the Hermit Kingdom has apparently pulled the plug. In a...
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China’s Teen Gamers Revealed, From In-Depth Demographics to Deepest Desires...
We’re always keeping our eyes out for interesting and surprising data about China’s games industry, and yesterday, we found a gold mine. A new report focused on China’s teen and twenty-something...
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