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Staff Picks: 9 Top News Stories this Week in Tech in Asia
Money, murder, manga, and several other things that regrettably do not begin with “m” dominated this week’s Asia tech news. Plus, with hundreds of millions in the continent devoted to their social...
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7 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
With spring now in full flow here in China, new tech news developments bloomed as quickly as plum blossoms. Let’s start off with social media: 1. Out of 300 Million Total, Tencent’s WeChat Has 40...
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19 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Another really long list of startups this week from all across the region. Remember, for startup tips and story suggestions, feel free to email us. Alternatively, you can send tips here and/or tell us...
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Do You Suck at DIY? You Need Taiwan’s Leading Home Repairs Marketplace
5945 is Taiwan’s up and coming online home repairs marketplace startup. The model is similar to America’s Redbeacon, which was acquired by Home Depot last year. The name “5945” makes no sense to most...
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Baidu Opens Lab in Silicon Valley Devoted to Research into ‘Deep Learning’
Baidu’s Kai Yu at the new Institute of Deep Learning in Silicon Valley. (Images: Wired) Wired has dropped in on a brand-new facility opened by Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) in the heart of...
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Baidu-Backed Travel Site Qunar Reportedly Gets $57 Million Funding Round
Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) invested $306 million in Qunar back in the summer of 2011 to take a majority stake in the travel e-commerce site. Today Qunar is reported to have secured a...
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Indonesian President’s New Twitter Account is a Hit, Gains 700,000 Followers...
Image source credit: berita.upi.edu Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – also known as SBY – has finally made his first tweet on his brand-new Twitter handle, @SBYudhoyono. Since that first...
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ZipDial Receives Funding From Jungle Ventures, Launches in Sri Lanka
ZipDial is a unique company from Bangalore, India that monetizes from missed calls. In India (perhaps also similar to many developing nations), people use missed calls to notify the other party at...
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Nameko Saibai: How “Japan’s Angry Birds” Racked Up 30 Million Downloads
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. Puzzle/RPG hybrid Puzzle &...
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Wish.vn: A Foray Into Medical Startups in Vietnam
There aren’t too many startups in Vietnam that are making a foray into medicine. In fact, I only know two: Wish.vn and Yton.vn. Let’s focus on Wish.vn, which is an attempt at creating a healthcare...
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Alibaba Brings Mobile OS to 6 New Phones, But No Big-Name Brands in Sight
After the kerfuffle between Alibaba and Google last summer over an Acer-made phone for Alibaba’s cloud-oriented mobile OS, it’s clear that China’s top homegrown OS cannot partner up with any handset...
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Amazon Rumored to be Starting Kindle Pre-Orders in China Tomorrow
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) launched its e-bookstore and e-reading apps in China last December, but there’s still something missing – sales of the actual Kindle hardware. That’s rumored to be changing...
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China’s DailyCost Personal Finance App Has Over 240,000 Users Worldwide
DailyCost is an iOS app that helps you track your daily expenses. It’s beautifully crafted by founder Goupeng Liang who is based in Hangzhou, China. It was first introduced into Apple’s App Store in...
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Dish Offers $25.5 Billion For Sprint, Disrupting the American Dream of...
Softbank (TYO:9984) offered $20 billion for mobile telco Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) last year, but the deal is not yet done as it goes through regulatory inspection. While the acquisition is under...
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NMA Launches Ridiculous ‘North Korea Smackdown’ HTML5 Game
North Korea’s missile belligerence has been the target of an awful lot of humor, but the folks at Taiwan’s Next Media Animation have taken things a step farther and gone interactive with Best Korea...
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What Games Are Chinese Government Officials Playing at Work?
This is for work, I swear!Recently, the Chinese media has been buzzing with the results of an investigative report that found that 30 percent of Chinese public servants are wasting significant amounts...
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Spotify Now Available in Singapore Ahead of Today’s Launch Event
Spotify is now available in Singapore ahead of a launch event later today. Some basic fiddling with the music streaming service’s geo-specific URLs reveals that spotify.com/sg-en is now live....
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It’s Official: Spotify Launches in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong
We mistakenly leaked last week that Spotify is set to launch in Singapore. So today’s launch by the Swedish music streaming giant into Singapore isn’t too much of a surprise. But, wait! There are a...
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Papaya Mobile Launches SDK to Help App Developers Monetize Through China...
Getting your game or app into China’s mobile marketplace can be hard enough, but monetizing that game or app once it gets there is sometimes even harder. But now, San Francisco-based social gaming...
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Lolabox vs BeautyTreats: Two New Beauty Box Startups Launch in Indonesia Today
Lolabox, a startup that offers monthly subscriptions for boxes of beauty products, launches today in Indonesia. The company is founded by two ex-Rocket Internet employees, Christian Sutardi and...
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