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China’s Underground Network Of International Telephone Fraudsters Busted
Just last week, two Chinese nationals were arrested in Vietnam. They were found with a total of 7,200 SIM cards that they were using to scam people via an elaborate telephone fraud. At first, I didn’t...
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India’s Zomato Goes Jozi, Launches in South Africa’s Largest City
Just a few weeks after expanding to the Philippines to shake up the restaurant listings market there, India’s Zomato has now launched in Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. The site...
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Vistamobi Helps Businesses Build Mobile Sites in Emerging Markets
Vistaprint has launched Vistamobi, a tool that helps small businesses build responsive design mobile sites. The mobile site builder is free to use and is built for speed for low bandwidth environments...
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Censorship in Indonesia: No Porn Please!
Popular video sharing site Vimeo was blocked by Indonesia’s largest telco Telkomsel for a short while. And while it was still being blocked, the only reasonable answer that the company’s customer...
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Indonesian President to Set Up Personal Twitter Account
Credit: berita.upi.edu The Jakarta Globe reports today that the Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), will launch his own personal Twitter account soon. It is still undisclosed what...
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Pedala is a Pinoy Tree Hugger’s Dream Courier
Pedala Bike Messengers is a bicycle courier service in Manila founded and born out of the gas crisis in 2008. Founder Candy Reyes-Alipio started cycling more during that time to save money and beat...
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Peter Cauton: Inspiring Techpreneurs to Take One Great Leap
It’s rare to see people who are willing to offer inspiration and help, especially as we know sometimes the Internet is full of haters. But let’s not get into that. Let’s just talk about people who...
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Batdongsan: Vietnam’s Number One Real Estate Listings Website
The real estate market in Vietnam is a bubble. It’s long been known to be among the top 20 most expensive real estate markets in the world despite still being a developing nation. But that also means...
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Junk Mail No More With Maskr
At present my personal mail sits close to 5,000 unread emails, the majority of which are junk mail that I have given up trying to clear. Prior to discovering Maskr, I thought perhaps I should set up a...
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India’s Eventifier Receives Funding From KAE Capital and The Startup Centre
India’s Eventifier, the startup that archives your events has concluded a financing round for an undisclosed sum from KAE Capital and Chennai-based incubator The Startup Centre. The startup tracks the...
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WeChat Experiences Short Service Outage, Blames Hardware Problems as Users...
Tencent’s WeChat has gotten very big in China (and pretty big outside China, too). But even a mighty social network is vulnerable to hardware problems, and that’s exactly what struck the social app...
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ImpulseFlyer Launches iOS App
Singapore’s VIP membership online luxury travel site ImpulseFlyer has launched its iOS app, available to download for free on the app store now. The app looks neat, making it even easier to visit...
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China’s Search Wars: Qihoo’s 360 Search Growing Slowly, But Baidu’s May Be...
Top Chinese internet companies Baidu and Qihoo 360 have been beating the hell out of each other since Qihoo launched a search service last summer. Following the back-and-forth is fun, of course, but...
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‘Danger Maps’ Invites You to Map China’s Polluted Areas via New Open-Platform...
Late last year, I wrote about Danger Maps, a Chinese web service that had tracked and mapped reports of different types of pollution and contamination in China in the hopes of helping people figure out...
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Get Your Social Marketing Project Management on Track with BrightPod
A Mumbai-based startup is taking on the world’s top project management web apps – things like Basecamp and Trello – with its minimalist and good-looking BrightPod. Made by the team at Synage Software,...
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Chinese Law Proposes Real Name Requirements for All Phone and Mobile Network...
Soon, you may have to register with your real name even if you make all your calls on phones like this. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is very enthusiastic about...
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Chinese Taxi Booking App Flags Down Funding, Alibaba Rumored to be Along For...
Chinese startup Kuaidi Dache (meaning “fast taxis”) has flagged down seed funding to help the taxi-finding service grow. Centered around apps for iPhone and Android, Kuaidi Dache claims to have...
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CocCoc: Russian-Financed Vietnamese Search Engine Plans To Spend $100 Million...
Google is a beast in Vietnam. Not only is it the top search engine, but it’s also the number one website in the country according to Alexa. Well, now the Silicon Valley giant is about to face stiff...
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Dropbox Expands in Asia, Now Available in Chinese, Malay, and Indonesian
(Update: Changed Malaysian to Malay since we’re talking about the language, not the nationality!) Dropbox reckons that it has 161 percent more Chinese-speaking users now than it had last year. So that...
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Soccer Ticker App is a Hit With Blackberry 10 Sports Fans
Indonesia’s Soccer Ticker app, which was the overall winner of the Blackberry JamHack Asia competition recently, is proving to be popular with global football fans. The app is still positioned first...
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