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Dangdang to Release E-Reader with Hybrid Touch/E-ink Screen in May
Dangdang CEO Li Guoqing It seems Dangdang is mentioned less and less these days in conversations about China’s major e-commerce players. In fact, the most recent time we mentioned the company here at...
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Startup Asia Singapore 2013 In An Infographic
Yes, we know: Startup Asia Singapore was a couple weeks ago, but it takes time to gather data, feedback, and visualize Startup Asia Singapore 2013 into the sweet looking infographic below designed by...
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No Amazon Appstore for Indonesia and China – Here’s the Full List for Asia
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced yesterday the expansion of its Android Appstore to “nearly 200 countries” but didn’t specify the full list. So we asked Amazon where in Asia-Pacific its app store will...
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Chinese State Media: 60% of Consumers Are Starting To Think Apple Sucks
China’s state media outlets — mostly CCTV and the People’s Daily — have been waging a sustained campaign against Apple since CCTV’s 3/15 Consumer Rights Day report first slammed the company last month....
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Yodo1 Gets $5 Million in Funding From Singtel Innov8, Helps Games Crack the...
Monetizing games might be a breeze in South Korea and Japan, but it’s always a struggle in China. That’s why Beijing-based Yodo1 says it’s doing well by helping overseas developers to publish and...
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Jeffrey Paine: The 3 Types of Startup Founders Investors are Looking For
via Tuan Anh, CEO at Geeky.vn Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeffrey Paine of Golden Gate Ventures in front of over 100 people at Keewi’s StartMeUp event. At first, I wasn’t going to...
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Xiaomi Founder Lei Jun on the Pressures and Perils of Doing a Startup
China’s Xiaomi is now widely recognized as one of the country’s best startups; it’s what happens when you take a good idea combined with experienced team and adequate funding and then insert all that...
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China’s LightInTheBox Files for $86 Million US IPO to Expand its E-Commerce...
If you want to source goods from China, there are other choices beyond Alibaba/AliExpress. One of these is Beijing-based LightInTheBox, which has just filed with the SEC for a $86.25 million IPO on...
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Burpple Challenges Yelp in Singapore, Brings Restaurant Reviews Outside the App
After making fast progress from first launching its foodie-oriented photo app in May 2012, now Burpple has rolled out a user-submitted restaurant listings and reviews site in Singapore. It’s an...
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Terrabook: Building Educational Mobile Apps And Platforms For Vietnamese Kids
A model that I’m encountering more and more lately in Vietnam is an outsourcing-to-product business growth pattern. It’s where a company starts out doing outsourcing for clients, and then slowly...
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Lapor: Taking a Deeper Look into Indonesia’s Newest Anti-Corruption Weapon
From the left: UKP4 head Kuntoro Mangkusubroto and DKI Jakarta vice governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama Lapor, the newest technology product made for Indonesian citizens to report wrongdoings in public...
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Xend: From TVs to Pencils, an Easier Way to Send Packages in the Philippines
Xend is unique. At the very least, that’s what its founder, Bjorn Pardo, would have you believe. As he says: We are very unique. Depending on the point of view, we could be considered as a courier,...
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Food App Burpple Featured in 14 Countries in Apple App Store
Singapore-made food app Burpple was featured on the front page across 14 countries in Apple’s App Store in recent weeks. The 14 countries include Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong,...
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The Daily Deals Drama Continues in Vietnam: Kay Launches, Challenging Nhom Mua
If you’ve been following e-commerce and daily deals in Vietnam, you know that Nhom Mua fell hard late last year due to internal issues. And in the midst of that, Nhom Mua’s original founder, Tom Tran,...
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How You Feeling? India-Made Hike App Adds Status Updates and Moods
We saw the India-made messaging app Hike launch last summer and then go global in December. In the fast-moving world of social media, that means it’s time for another update. This week, the New...
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Tech Entrepreneurship is Brewing Up in Kathmandu, Nepal
Roshan Karki is a cancer researcher and one of the scientist advocates of Science Exchange Inc, an online marketplace for scientific services. He is passionate about disseminating the importance of...
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Qihoo Report Breaks Down China’s Average Internet Speed by Province
Ever wonder where the fastest internet in China is? According to a new report released by Qihoo 360, the answer is Shanghai. In fact, the report has ranked all of China’s provinces — including that...
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Xiaomi Sets Date and Prices for Launches in Hong Kong and Taiwan
China’s newcomer phone-maker Xiaomi said a while back that it would make its first ever venture outside mainland China. And now Xiaomi has set dates and prices for upcoming launches in Hong Kong and...
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Baidu Takes a Dig at Qihoo With Launch of Antivirus Apps in China
The very minimal UI of the new Baidu Antivirus app for PC users in China. After months of testing it in on users in Southeast Asia and then around the world, Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU)...
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Amazon Rolls Out ‘Cloud Drive’ in China Ahead of Possible Kindle Launch
So it turns out that Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle hardware didn’t launch in China on the 16th as rumors said it would. But there is a concrete development today with the rollout to Chinese consumers...
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