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Kompas Invests in Urbanesia, Becomes a Major Shareholder
Selina Limman, the CEO of Urbanesia.com (Right) Early this week Kompas, Indonesia’s biggest national newspaper, invested in Urbanesia [1]. The signs were really there as Edi Taslim, the vice director...
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GREE Partners With RightScale, Offers Multi-Cloud Management System to...
Japan-based social gaming network GREE (TYO:3632) and U.S-based cloud computing management company RightScale jointly announced a partnership yesterday. Under this partnership developers will have the...
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6 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Despite it being the week in the run-up to Chinese New Year, there was a very surprising new gadget, plenty of new statistics, and lots of other news sprouting out of the Chinese web: 1. RedPad is the...
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AllSet Learning Launches Chinese Grammar Wiki
AllSet Learning is an educational consultancy startup based in Shanghai, China. Today, AllSet has entered the tech realm by launching a Chinese grammar wiki. The wiki, which contains explanations and...
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8 Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week
We have a couple of Asian tech startups on our radar this week, specifically from China, Indonesia, Japan, India, and Singapore for this week. For folks who are interested in investing or partnering...
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Dancing Robot Army Rings in Chinese New Year
Photo: ent.sina.com.cn Happy Chinese New Year everyone! While I don’t get a chance to watch the annual CCTV gala (aka craptacular) since coming to Japan from China a few years back, it’s always fun to...
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Chinese New Year Sets Microblog Message Milestone, But It’s Not the First Time
Sina Weibo mascots on a break China’s Sina Weibo is making lots of headlines today having broken the unofficial tweets-per-second record with 32,312 messages during the first minute of Chinese New...
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What is GREE Doing in Southeast Asia? [PREVIEW]
Arch-rival DeNA was one step ahead of GREE entering the Southeast Asia market. It’s kind of self-explanatory why GREE is also taking an interest in this region, as there is so much potential in regions...
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Fishing Joy Hits 30 Million Downloads, Celebrates with Chinese New Year Update
We’ve already written about Rovio’s Year-of-the-Dragon update for its Angry Birds Seasons game, which features China-themed art in the backgrounds and in game play. And now China-based Punchbox has...
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Startup Arena Updates: Judges and Prizes
Our Startup Arena competition on February 2nd and 3rd is almost upon us. The startups lining up for Startup Arena are all pumped to pitch and battle for the top prize. So far, we have selected more...
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More Consumers Turn to Group Buying Sites for Chinese New Year Dinner Deals
Despite a tough year for many group buying sites in China – including lots of terrible publicity such as huge spikes in customer complaints – lots of consumers turned to such deals sites for their...
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PlayCez Android App Hits the Streets, Helps You Find Places to Go
When we chatted with the Indian startup PlayCez last summer, one co-founder promised that the social venue recommendation service would soon get a mobile app. And here it is. The new PlayCez app for...
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After Entering Indonesia with Video Service, FC2 Says Adult Section Soon Coming
Last week we told you about FC2’s plans to launch its video service in Indonesia. The company claims that its video service is pretty popular in Japan, although we’re not quite sure exactly how...
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China Anoints a New Most-Followed Celebrity, Way Ahead of Liu Xiang, Lady Gaga
The Tencent Weibo page of He Jiong - now the most 'followed' person on the planet. With the huge rise in popularity of microblogging in China, it’s sometimes overlooked that there isn’t just one...
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Raising Funds From Strategic Partners [PREVIEW]
Anuj Khanna Sohum, Chairman, Affle Founder and CEO of Affle, Anuj Khanna Sohum, isn’t often in the media limelight. I only got to know him through Affle’s PR firm after his company recently raised $10...
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Blaast Launches in Indonesia, Collaborates With XL
Blaast officially launched yesterday at the Kempinski Ballroom in Jakarta. Collaborating with telco XL, Blaast has brought its service to more than 40 million XL users, half of them being feature...
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Apple Shows Big Revenue Growth in US and Japan, Stays Focused on China
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced its financial report for the first fiscal quarter of 2012, reporting revenue of $46.33 billion (PDF) which is a whopping 73 percent increase on the $26.7 billion from...
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Report: Half of All Retweets on Sina Weibo are Spam
We’ve long been concerned about just how many of the 250 million users of Sina Weibo are real, and not spam or zombie accounts. Now a report from the HP Labs ‘Social Computing Research Group’ claims...
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NTT Com to Acquire 74% Stake in India’s Netmagic Solutions
We just received word from Japan-based NTT Com that it plans to acquire a 74 percent stake in Netmagic Solutions, a datacenter service in India with datacenters across the country in Mumbai,...
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That Ain’t Very Rock ‘n’ Roll! Rolling Stone Website Blocks Itself in China
Access Denied! That’s the message greeting China-based readers of Rollingstone.com, the online version of the iconic music and cultural magazine Rolling Stone. But this isn’t the work of the rampaging...
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