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Free Coupons a Big Business for Freecharge.in, Secures More Funding From Sequoia
The Indian startup Freecharge.in has announced this afternoon that its has secured funding worth Rs. 20 crores (US$4 million) from Sequoia Capital – the second time it has been given a cash boost by...
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Japanese Mobile Ad Company Mediba Continues Outward Growth With Korea Office
In 2011 we wrote quite a bit about Japanese internet companies expanding their businesses abroad, like GREE, DeNA, and CyberAgent, just to name a few. Mobile advertising company Mediba is making a...
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Japan’s Docomo Experiences Another Network Service Disruption
Docomo CEO Ryuji Yamada Early this morning I noticed a barrage of Twitter messages complaining of a Docomo (NYSE:DCM) service outage here in Tokyo. According to a Bloomberg report this evening, Docomo...
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Angry Birds Coming to Facebook on Valentine’s Day [EXCLUSIVE]
From left to right: Rovio's Henri, and Peter, with PO's Joshua, earlier today in Jakarta. Speaking exclusively to Penn Olson today in Jakarta, Peter Vesterbacka, the ‘Mighty Eagle’ of Rovio, and Henri...
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Southeast Asia and Japan Through a German’s Lens [PREVIEW]
Dr. Serkan Toto, Independent Consultant, Japan Correspondent For TechCrunch Serkan Toto is one of the more prominent bloggers covering startups and innovation across Asia on TechCrunch, Asiajin, and...
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Mixi and DeNA Announce Social Commerce Partnership
Japanese social networking giant Mixi and leading social gaming platform DeNA have announced a partnership in field of social commerce. The strength of Mixi is its real life social graph that extends...
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Nokia Launches Asha 300, Collaborates With Fellow Finns Rovio
At the Kempinski Ballroom in Jakarta yesterday, Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) launched its new addition to the Asha line with the new Asha 300, together with Angry Birds creator Rovio. Asha means ‘hope’...
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Mandarin Madness Game-ifies the Learning of Chinese Characters
Chinese characters can look like arcane codes, cryptic communiqué, that conspire to obscure the meanings of an ancient culture. But new, hi-tech tools can help anyone wrap their ears, eyes, and...
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Japan To Get ‘Chocolate Phone’ on Valentine’s Day
Last night we told you about our talk with Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds, who told us their plans for a Valentine’s Day launch of their game on Facebook. But it looks like they aren’t the only...
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Pleco: Chinese Character Recognition App Finally Comes to Android [REVIEW]
After months of rigorous testing, feedback from hundreds of voluntary testers, and seven beta versions, the Android iteration of Pleco dictionary has today gone gold, and now finds a home in the...
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Air China’s Facebook Marketing Campaign Takes Off
We’re always on the lookout for creative online marketing campaigns from companies here in Asia. But we were somewhat surprised to hear that Air China (HKG:0753) was using Facebook as a promotional...
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Infinite.ly: Nice domain, Nice Design, But…
Drag and drop site creator Philippines-based Infinite.ly is an application built for brands and marketing managers to track social buzz about their companies (on Facebook and Twitter) all in one page....
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Nokia’s Sales in China Down 40% Last Year, Only Hope Rests in WP7
A graphic that's currently on Nokia's official Renren page. But how many consumers in China are still aboard the Nokia train? The final quarter of 2011 proved to be another chapter in Nokia’s...
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Photohoku: Helping Japan’s Tohoku Rebuild Through Photos
It’s almost been a year now since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and while we don’t hear as much about the recovery efforts in the news anymore, there are still many people working to...
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Why Earth and Humanity are Doomed
Normally, I’d be looking for some news to write up right now. But during Chinese New Year, there really isn’t any, so instead, let’s take a second to talk about how we’re all doomed. Dooooomed! OK,...
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Japan’s NEC Cutting 10,000 Jobs – Is Apple’s iPhone to Blame?
NEC Medias PP, for Docomo Some startling news coming from electronics maker NEC in Japan, who reportedly said yesterday that it will be cutting 10,000 jobs from its workforce, with most of those coming...
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Apple’s Siri Can’t Understand Chinese [VIDEO]
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) voice recognition feature Siri, which appears on the iPhone 4S, can’t understand or speak Chinese. Perhaps it’s learning. But for now, despite most users probably knowing of this...
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Japanese Voice App ‘Line’ Continues Meteoric Rise, Hits 15 Million Downloads
It was just one month ago (almost to the day) that Japanese mobile messenger application Line surpassed the 10 million downloads milestone. And now today, Naver Japan, who operates the popular app, is...
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A Review of the Xiaomi M1 [VIDEO]
the Xiaomi M1 We’ve done a fair amount of reporting on Xiaomi’s M1 smartphone, and apparently I got caught up in the hype, because a little over a month ago, my wife and I both bought one. I wanted to...
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This Week in Asia Start-ups: 5 That Caught Our Eye
There were a number of startups and cool projects that got our attention over the past week. And as our colleague Charlie ruminates over whether or not we are all doomed, there are a few initiatives...
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