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Going For Gold, 360Buy Launches a Luxury Brand Store, Called 360Top
360Buy, the Chinese B2C e-commerce site that’s currently in second place in that sector, has now diversified from its usual fare of books and electronics with a new venture – 360Top.com, which sells...
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Social Games Big in Asia, But How are They Doing in India?
We’ve written much here on this blog about social gaming in Asia, particularly in China and Japan. But we don’t hear too much about the social gaming space in India. Today we’re hearing from MOL,...
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Ogilvy’s Sina Weibo Policy in a Video – Way Cool
Social media policy, with all policies, can be a very dull thing to communicate to staff. But Ogilvy China has made it fun and even localized it. The video basically tells staff how not to use Sina...
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Multiply Indonesia Cuts Delivery Fees to Zero, But for a Limited Time
Multiply, which was launched back in March of this year to bring social commerce to Indonesia, has cut its delivery fees to all across Indonesia to zero. The free delivery service promo is supported by...
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Geeks + iTwin = :D
:D I’m excited to announce that we have iTwin coming on board as a sponsor for Startup Asia Singapore. We had announced that the first 50 registrants would receive a somewhat geeky gift (in fact, we’re...
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MIIT Says No Need to Package Chargers with Phones, Consumers Rejoice?
MIIT, the Chinese government body that inspects all your favorite mobile gadgets and toys, has announced that starting December 1st, mobile phone makers do not need to provide a charging cord to them...
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Sribu.com: Crowdsourced Designs for Just About Anything
Sribu.com was founded back in June by Ryan Gondokusumo and has quickly become one of the hottest startups around in Indonesia. It crowdsources designs almost for anything you can think of, from logos...
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Prolific Hong Kong Game Studio Closes Funding Round
The prolific Hong Kong game development company Animoca, which has produced over 150 social gaming titles for iOS and Android since it started in January of this year, has closed a round of series-A...
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Xiaomi M1 Phones Available to Everyone Starting December 18
the Xiaomi M1 We’ve been interested in Xiaomi’s low-cost high-power M1 smartphone since the first time we saw it, and we’re not the only ones. The company sold 300,000 preorders in less than two days,...
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Feecha: The LBS Microblog App Is Interesting, But..
Feecha is a mobile app, developed by The Chingchong Group, that mixes location, microblogging, and cute creatures into an app. Instead of seeing a stream of endless chatting and link shares, Feecha...
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No End to Interest in Chinese E-Commerce, as 2011 Sees 7 Billion RMB Invested
Our resident financial expert, Mr. G. O' Rilla, actually reckons that O2O investment figures reached just over "a gorillion dollars so far in 2011." Stats put together by ChinaVenture show that Chinese...
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Specialist Sports E-Commerce Site Scores $30 Million in Funding
The specialist Chinese B2C e-commerce site Ku Yun Dong – or, ‘Cool Sports’ in English – has wrapped up a round of series-B funding worth US$30 million. It has not been revealed which firms led the...
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Japan’s Peepapp Lets You Stalk and Explore Friends’ Mobile Apps
There are millions of mobile apps out there and it is always a problem finding the very best. We can rely on iTunes’ list of best apps which usually includes the likes of Angry Birds, Plants vs...
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Taobao Mall Braces for Physical Protests at Alibaba HQ
Alibaba HQ in Hangzhou, where protesters aim to converge tomorrow, Thursday 24th. (Image source: topboxdesign.com) Just when you thought that Alibaba’s olive branch had stopped the digital protests by...
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Founder Of Indonesia’s Kaskus Discusses Future Plans
Kaskus is the largest community forum in Indonesia, having been founded 12 years back. Just recently the company moved to its new office where it will release the new Kaskus (#NewKaskus) with a new...
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Co-founder of 55Tuan To Discuss China and Entrepreneurship at Startup Asia...
I’m a keen admirer of James Tan. Many of you guys in Singapore might not know him because he is making his fortune in the big pond, China. He co-founded, 55Tuan.com, one of the largest group-buy sites...
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Nexon IPO Coming on December 6, Expected to Raise $1.28 Billion [REPORT]
Nexon's Dungeon Fighter at G-Star 2010, koreaittimes.com The folks over at VentureBeat are reporting this morning that the anticipated Nexon IPO will take place on December 6 in Japan. The report...
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LocalBrand Online Mall Launches, Providing a Cat-Walk for Indonesian Fashion...
After a beta rollout on August 17, now LocalBrand.co.id has officially launched, with a very apt cat-walk fashion show event (pictured below). LocalBrand is an online mall that focuses on high-fashion...
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Fang Zhouzi Accuses Kaifu Lee of Exaggeration in Autobiography
Kaifu Lee (left), Fang Zhouzi (right) Last night, Fang Zhouzi took to his Weibo to criticize a few pieces of Kaifu Lee’s autobiography. Lee was not happy with the criticism and fired back, but today...
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Loving The Mean People Who Give A Shit About Your Startup
When I was younger, I hated criticisms that were directed at my business or ideas. I always felt it was like an insult. That thinking plagued me for years. But I also learned that people who are...
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