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AdStars Appointed As UberSocial’s Advertising Partner in Indonesia
Adstars is an ad network company which has shown very fast growth. And now it has been chosen as the exclusive in-country advertising partner for Twitter app UberSocial in Indonesia by UberMedia. It...
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Startup Grepsr Wants to Make Data Collection Easy
Grepsr is one of the more intriguing startups I’ve come across in a while. It is a data extraction and web crawling service which you can use if you need to automate data collection from places on the...
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Tencent’s Pony Ma Challenges Real-Name Advocates By Talking About Prostitutes
This cartoon comes from the popular manga "Pony Ma challenges the regulators" (just kidding, that's not a thing...yet) Real-name registration systems are all the rage in China these days. And by “all...
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9 Evil Tactics Used by 360 Safe Browser to Beat IE in China
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been wanting people in China to quit using Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) for quite some time – but it didn’t want things to pan out like this. Now a rival web browser, made by...
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eBay Continues Asia Postal Partnerships with Singapore Tie-up
Back in November we told you about eBay’s partnership with Japan Post to assist Japanese customer who wanted to sell items using the popular auction service. And today we’re hearing that eBay has...
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Renren Expands, Adds a Pinterest-like Social Pinboard
Renren (NYSE:RENN), China’s biggest Facebook-like social network, has today launched a social pinboard and sharing website called Renren Plaza. As with the US service Pinterest, it allows users to...
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Train Ticket Buying Software is Mostly a Scam (Yeah, Big Surprise)
We’ve done a fair bit of reporting on China’s online train ticket sales system this year, which has been buggy as hell when it’s not busy hating the poor. Since it’s such a hassle to buy a ticket...
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MediaPop App-ifies Facebook Pages With Its Social Marketing Dashboard
Singaporean startup Media Pop has launched a new service that makes it easier for brands, either big or small, to set up a social media campaign on Facebook. Its social marketing dashboard is, the...
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Letao’s 4th Round of Funding Brings in Another $30 Million
Letao.com, the Chinese e-commerce site that specializes in footwear, has raised a fourth round of funding worth US$30 million. It was completed in December but only announced today. It was not...
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Docomo Gains Most Mobile Subscribers in December in Japan
Docomo's most recent mobile lineup had a number of handsets targeting females Japan’s Telecommunications Carriers Association updated its monthly mobile subscriber data this week, with NTT Docomo...
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Already Huge Queues, Worries About Scalpers, for iPhone 4S Launch in China...
There are already huge queues outside of China’s five official Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stores in readiness for tomorrow’s launch of the iPhone 4S. At the two stores in Beijing, and the three in Shanghai,...
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Promoote Helps You Find Local Services in Jakarta
If you’re in Jakarta and are looking for something like a guitar tutor, massage, or a photo shoot session, look no further than Promoote.com. This startup is sort of like Yelp, but for services only....
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East Ventures Launches Angels Network, Aims to Boost Indonesian Ecosystem
A pic of the EV team and some of its guest at the event. East Ventures has been pretty active in the Indonesian startup scene, investing in and incubating more than 20 startups in the country so far....
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Scalper Fights Cause One Beijing Apple Store to Cancel iPhone 4S Launch
Today, Apple’s iPhone 4S is finally on sale in China. It’s been a long time coming, and fans of the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) device are clearly excited, as gigantic lines had already formed last night....
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Twitter Ain’t No Thang: KakaoTalk Sends a Billion Messages in a Day
At the end of 2012 Naver Line, a free mobile messaging service, announced it reached 10 million downloads. Now, just two weeks later, the application’s App Store page claims 12 million downloads. The...
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Youku’s Video Search Engine is Blocked by Several Rivals
In a sign of growing hostility amongst video-streaming services in China, three such sites have reportedly blocked access to a video search engine owned by the market leader, Youku (NYSE:YOKU). Its...
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No HTML5? Why One Game Dev Still Sees Value in Flash
While everyone else is developing HTML5 games, the Red Eclipse team Dani Adriadi and Hari Adriadi (yes they are brothers) have decided that they will develop fun and addictive Flash games instead. So,...
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Foxconn’s Child Robots Go to Work
If you’re reading this post using an electronic device of some kind, there’s a decent chance you’re holding something right now that was made by Foxconn, in whole or in part. The Taiwanese...
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Aliyun Phone Gets Its Own Android App Store
Alibaba has launched an app store for users of its Aliyun smartphone to browse and install Android apps. The Aliyun platform is not based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) mobile OS, though it is also...
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India High Court on Google, Facebook: Like China, We Will Block All Such...
Back in December we told you about India’s intent to ban offensive online material, and how internet companies like Google and Facebook were being asked to control the content distrubuted on their...
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