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Japan’s Video Game Market Grows to $4.6 Billion in 2012 (But Social Games Not...
Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on Twitter and his blog. This article is republished with his permission. According to data released by...
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VNG Shutters Zing Video To Sidestep a Battle with Youtube
On the Alexa traffic rank, Zing Video is the fifth highest ranked site in Vietnam. But that number piggybacks on the strength of Zing Me, VNG’s flagship Facebook-like site. They’ll be allowing users...
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IdeaSpace Gives Seed Funding to 10 Civic-Minded Startups from the Philippines
Philippines-based incubator IdeaSpace recently awarded ten tech startups with funding of PHP 5 million (over US$ 121,000) each. I first looked at this incubator last September when it started its...
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Qlubbr is the Nightlife App for Singapore’s Party People
Here’s an app definitely not designed for me: a new social nightlife app called Qlubbr. Made by a Singapore startup who launched the app last week, it focuses on gigs, festivals, and clubs. It helps...
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Kabam Launches $50 Million Fund to Bring Japanese Games to the West
California-based game studio Kabam has set up a $50 million fund aimed at getting Japanese games into the Western markets of Europe and the US. Kabam’s fund will also involve assistance in localizing...
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Lavandera: Reorganizing the Way Filipinos Do Laundry
I can do my own laundry, really. I can wash, rinse, hang up, collect once it’s dried, and all that jazz, but it’s a very tedious process. So it is with a sigh of relief that Lavandera.ph crossed my...
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For the Future of Chinese Startups, Tencent’s WeChat Must Not Subsidize the...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is pressuring Tencent to subsidize telcos in China for supporting the huge data demands of WeChat’s user base. There are a total of 300...
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Taiwan’s Cubie Hits 6.5 Million Users, Now in 9 Languages
Taiwanese mobile messaging app Cubie recently rolled out four additional languages — Indonesian, German, Italian, and Portuguese — making it available in a total of nine languages. Cubie says that...
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KakaoTalk Hits Number 1 Spot in Indonesia’s App Stores and is Looking for...
Sirgoo Lee (pictured right) is a very nice guy. He’s the co-CEO of Korea-based chat app KakaoTalk. When he went onstage at our Startup Asia Singapore event last week, he spontaneously said that he was...
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A Sneak Peek at Some Games on WeChat’s Social Gaming Platform
As confirmed by Tencent (HKG:0700) during its most recent earnings call, a WeChat social gaming platform is in the works. Now leaked pictures have emerged of third-party games that will make use of the...
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Spotify Ready for Asian Debut with Singapore Launch Next Week
Spotify is set to launch in Singapore, perhaps as soon as next week. The Swedish music streaming startup has just sent out invites for an event soon in Singapore, but no further details are available...
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Xiaomi Revamps Flagship Phone Ahead of Hong Kong and Taiwan Launches
There’s a Xiaomi fan festival going on right now in Beijing. It turned into a surprise product launch with the startup Chinese phone-maker revealed a revamped flagship phone in two new forms: the...
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No Funding, No Rich Daddy, Founder of M-Stars in Indonesia Started Up His Way
I met Joseph Edi Lumban Gaol, founder of M-Stars Group, in Jakarta, Indonesia. M-Stars is one of Indonesia’s pioneer mobile content providers; founded in 2000, it currently employs more than 150 staff...
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Coconuts.co Announces Angel Funding and Sets Sights on Singapore
Founded by journalist and entrepreneur Byron Perry in September 2011, Coconuts Media, a local review and news media company, started with the domain name CoconutsBangkok.com. Today, Perry’s site uses...
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Mobile Social Gaming Company FunSpot Arrives in Indonesia with Telkomsel...
Singapore-based mobile social gaming and entertainment company FunSpot announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with Indonesia’s largest telco Telkomsel to bring FunSpot’s services...
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Geeky Uses Puzzles To Filter and Recruit Smart Engineers in Vietnam
Finding good and great engineers for your company is a tedious and unsure process. Google and Microsoft are both well known for asking questions like: “How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?” or...
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CEO of Wantedly: Learn Fast, Be Focused, Think Simple, and Be User-Oriented
We concluded our Startup Asia Singapore 2013 event last week with a blast, and our female entrepreneurs had fun on the panel debating issues facing women at tech startups. At the event I had the...
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Line Enters E-book Business With Line Manga
Line Corporation popular messaging app, Line, has launched Line Manga yesterday (h/t: SD Japan). Line Manga is an extended service and a separate app from Line messaging app which allows users to read...
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KimZua.com: E-Commerce For Friends in The Other World
The Qingming Festival took place last Thursday, and for those who are unaware, it is when most Chinese would come together to celebrate and honor the loved ones who have departed at their graves and...
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Singapore Meetup: How Memebox Bootstrapped to $1 Million Annual Revenue
Tech in Asia Meetup number five, and we are back in Singapore! We are more than happy to bring this event back to the Lion City and I’m sure startups here will benefit from this meetup in one way or...
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