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15 Startups Awarded $4.85 Million Worth of Grants from SPRING Singapore
SPRING Singapore has today announced that 15 startups have received the proof-of-concept and proof-of-value grants under its SPRING Singapore’s Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme (TECS)....
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WeChat Squashes Rumor: We’re Free To Use!
Couple of hours ago, WeChat sent an official update to all of its users in China that the mobile messaging app will remain free for users. In recent weeks, rumors have it saying that users might have...
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Is This Apple’s First Official Store in Indonesia? Probably Not
Credit: Kompas.com About two days ago, someone spotted an under construction store at Indonesia’s Pasaraya Blok M – a shopping center in Jakarta – with a sign that says “Apple Store Open: 16 Juni 2013”...
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Puzzle & Dragons Now At 12 Million Players in Japan [CHART]
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. The hype around Japan’s most...
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Kakao Launches KakaoPage, a Marketplace for Anyone to Publish Digital Content
Back in February, we wrote that the Korean messaging app KakaoTalk had launched KakaoPage, a tool for individuals and brands to create and distribute content on the popular social app. But Sonia Im...
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VietnamWorks, Vietnam’s Top Online Recruitment Site, Gets Acquired By En-Japan
In a surprise move today, en-japan, from Japan obviously, is acquiring Navigos group, the company behind VietnamWorks, Vietnam’s biggest recruitment firm. In Vietnam, VietnamWorks is generally...
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Google Apps for Education to Reach 10 Million Malaysians in New Education...
Credit: Googleblog.blogspot.ca Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced yesterday that that its Google Apps will be used for educational purposes by 10 million Malaysian students, teachers, and parents....
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Tencent Has Bought Back $73 Million of Its Own Stock This Week
On Thursday, Chinese tech giant Tencent (HKG:0700) announced that had purchased back 92 million RMB ($14 million) of its own stock. The company has made major buybacks each day this week, and the total...
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Taiwanese Gamer Witnesses Murder in Internet Cafe, Keeps Playing Games in...
I’ve written a lot recently about murders revolving around video games in China (i.e. this, this, this, and this), but the latest gruesome story comes from Taiwan, and it involves gamers being not so...
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Scammers in China Exploit Apple to Turn Fake iPhones into Real Ones
Apple has been taking quite a bit of stick over the last month for its after-sales service practices in China, and perhaps rightfully so. But instead of being exploited by Apple, police have discovered...
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Unlocked iPhones Now Officially Available in the Philippines
Great news for Apple lovers in the Philippines: today is the day! Finally premium Apple resellers are offering unlocked iPhone 5, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4s — and they’re all official. This is a great...
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New Chinese E-Store Caters to Expats in China, Supports Payments in Bitcoin
With China’s e-commerce market set to be worth at least $175 billion this year, it’s a massive market where a new entrant will struggle to stand out. But Iwannabuy won’t have the same trouble, as it...
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PassedOn Connects You With Your Loved Ones Before You Kick The Bucket
We’re inundated with social media these days. I consider my friends who aren’t on Facebook lucky, they don’t have to deal with the onslaught of senseless status updates and the latent narcissism that...
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Indonesians Crack Down On Corruption with Crowd Reporting Site Lapor
Corruption is quite big in Indonesia. It’s very much normal – and even a habit – just to look the other way when we are dealing with government officials here. We have to follow their orders, and if...
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LongPlay Allows Peers To Listen To Your Music While On The Move
LongPlay is a mobile app that allows your peers to listen to your music on the move. The idea is pretty straightforward. You upload your library of music to LongPlay and send an authentication code to...
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LocalRoam: Another Player in the Group Buying Field in the Philippines
LocalRoam is a Philippine-based group buying website. Pretty much like the more popular MetroDeal Manila but different in that LocalRoam is focused on offering, to use its own tagline, a “loyalty-based...
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25 of Asia’s Top Photo Apps to Take On Instagram
With Instagram getting acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, there is no question that photo apps are a very hot place to be for startups. I think they’re still ripe for disruption, Instagram has only...
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Sina Weibo in Thailand: Way Too Little, Way Too Late
Last Friday, Sina Weibo quietly announced that it would be entering Thailand thanks to a partnership with Thai company Jiaranai Entertainment. Weibo Thailand is aiming to break even within six months...
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Jingdong Picks Up E-Banking Domain, Moving Towards New Online Payment Platform?
Chinese e-commerce giant 360Buy — which I suppose I ought to be calling Jingdong now — quietly picked up the domain wangyin.com on Friday. That may not mean anything to you if you don’t speak Chinese,...
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Calvin Chin: The Motivation for Social Innovation in China and “Making Epic...
Calvin Chin at T13 in Shanghai. Image: Ami Sanyal Photography At Mailman Group’s T13 conference in Shanghai yesterday, one of the city’s top entrepreneurial voices, Calvin Chin, took to the stage to...
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