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Studied Abroad And Returned To Vietnam: Startups that Defy the Brain Drain
Image Source: dtinews.vn Two factors draw in great talent into countries: really great projects that react to specific problems, and an environment that can allow smart individuals to tackle those...
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China’s Top Apple Hackers Launch a Pirate iOS App Store
KuaiYong has just launched this web store for pirated iOS apps. Far from being shut down by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the Chinese team behind KuaiYong seems to be thriving. Last year it made a...
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PropertyGuru Launches ‘Luxury Gallery’ for Classy Condos and Pricey Penthouses
PropertyGuru announced this afternoon that it has formed a strategic partnership with Far East Organization to launch a new site called Luxury Gallery showcasing Singapore’s premiere luxury...
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CyberAgent Ventures to Increase Fund to US$20M With Strong Interest in Thailand
At the sidelines of the Startup Asia Singapore conference, I had the opportunity to meet Nobuaki Kitagawa (pictured above), CEO of CyberAgent Ventures China. He revealed that there are plans to...
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The Spark Project: Crowdfunding in the Philippines Lets Many Hands Make Light...
If two is company, and three’s a crowd, does seven make it crowdfunding? The seven-man team at The Spark Project would like to make it so. Though the idea of bringing the technology of crowdfunding to...
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Sieu Web, A New Website-Building Platform For Businesses in Vietnam
In my opinion, most websites in Vietnam are crap. They’re ugly, poorly designed, horribly colored, and the font choice is atrocious. So I’m seriously thankful I ran into Sieu Web, which means Super...
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5 Mobile Apps Chinese Smartphone Users Can’t Live Without
Spencer Ng is a client service associate director at TNS – a global market research firm. He is interested in anything mobile and currently runs Mobile Behave (a smartphone usage metering program) in...
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Kaifu Lee: Rumors of Weibo’s Death Are Exaggerated
We’ve written a lot about the rise of WeChat and the danger it poses to Sina Weibo. Last night, a weibo post (ironically enough) suggesting Weibo may be very overvalued from internet analyst Qian Hao...
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CNNIC: Chinese E-commerce Market Exceeded $190 Billion in 2012
The China Internet Network Information Center released its numbers for Chinese e-commerce in 2012 and there’s only one way to describe them: bonkers. All in all, CNNIC says, the Chinese E-commerce...
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China’s Ten Most Popular PC Games (March 2013)
Gaming is big in China and only getting bigger. And while mobile gaming is important, the PC is still by far the most popular gaming platform for the nation’s young gamers (see this infographic for...
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Just.me Launches as a Messaging App to Kill Off Facebook, Looks to Asia for...
Oh great, another messaging app. But now that these are clearly ubiquitous social tools, we’ll have to get used to seeing new ones launching that aim to evolve the genre and twist the narrative....
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Lean Startup Machine Goes to Tokyo, Launches #LeanTOKYO
Startup friends in Tokyo will be pleased to know that the Lean Startup Machine will be holding its first ever LeanTOKYO event this May 17 to 19. The three-day event heeds the model motto of “failing...
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Gotcha Turns Captcha Into Branded Pictures, Lets Website Owners Monetize...
Though very simple, ‘captcha’ technology has been very important for netizens to filter out spammers. Now an Indonesian startup called Gotcha.in is looking to jump into the market with its own version...
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ZAPtag Promises Discounts and Rewards for Philippine Shoppers, No Smartphone...
I’ll be honest, I once looked down or ignored store discounts or reward systems. They all seemed too contrived, so tedious, so totally not worth it and too much of a hassle. And then, before I knew...
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Korean Supermarket Uses a Guiding Light to Point Out Discounts on Your...
“Mom, turn right for the candy – AND HURRY!” We’ve seen Korean supermarket chain Emart (KRX:139480) do some innovative stuff before, like its shadowy QR codes. But this time Emart is trying something...
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Thehallyu Brings Korean Fashion Craze to Fans in Indonesia
Indonesia has Korean fever. Sensing an opportunity, Korean fashion e-store Thehallyu rolled out an Indonesian language version of the site last month. And just a few weeks after the launch, Thehallyu...
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Nitrous.IO from Singapore Gets $1 Million Funding From Silicon Valley Luminaries
Nitrous.IO, Action.IO’s software development platform and key product, just got $1 million in seed funding from a handful of VC firms in Silicon Valley including Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper...
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Cisco Celebrates 20 Years in Singapore With Huge New Office
Networking equipment maker Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is celebrating 20 years of operating in Singapore with a huge new office that replaces its four previous Singaporean bases. It thereby brings all 1,000...
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GREE is Secretly Pushing Tellit, Its Mobile Messaging App
Japanese mobile gaming giant, GREE, has been secretly pushing its mobile messaging app, Tellit (Tell it). It was first launched as GREE Messenger late last year but has apparently since rebranded as...
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China Names Porn Offenders That Should be Shut Down, Apple’s App Store Included
Tim Cook’s got more explaining to do. Just a couple of weeks after Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) apology to Chinese consumers that followed a media attack on the company’s product returns policy in China, the...
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