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8 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week in China tech news was a little quiet as most people were enjoying Chinese New Year. But interestingly, this week saw a few holiday-related stories creep into our weekly round-up. In the...
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Building a Hardware Startup in Singapore [PREVIEW]
If you are keeping track of Singapore’s gadget space, you’ve likely heard of iTwin, the wireless file sharing USB drive. The hardware startup has earned several accolades and most recently won the CES...
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International E-florist Startup is Making Over A Million $!
Ah yes... Valentine's day is around the corner. It's time for the wallet to take one for the team! We often see vertical e-commerce sites popping up, specializing in things like bags, lingerie, or...
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Yokohama DeNA BayStars Uniforms Unveiled, Available on DeNA’s Own E-commerce...
Photo: Asahi.com After DeNA (TYO:2432) finally closed the deal on acquiring a majority stake in Japanese baseball team, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, many people were curious as to how much exposure the...
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TuanBao (Groupon.cn) Denies Going Bankrupt, Admits Financial Problems
Of all the Groupon clones in China, TuanBao is probably the most audacious, given that it bought the groupon.cn domain name out so early that the real Groupon had to change its name to Gaopeng when it...
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Chinese Government: Mobile Carriers Must Warn Users of Overages
So picture this: you’re a Chinese smartphone user with, like almost every smartphone user in China, a limited data plan. You get 500 MB of data per month — for example — as part of your package and...
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Starbucks and Jiepang Hook-Up Single Users for Valentine’s Promo
Smartphone-toting singletons in China will get some help in finding a potential date for Valentine’s Day with a new social marketing campaign from Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and the local social network...
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Diablo 3 Chinese Logo Revealed
Blizzard games are big business in China. Warcraft 3 is huge, World of Warcraft is enormous. And now that it’s almost here, Chinese gamers are getting hyped up for Diablo 3, too. Most recently, eager...
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Finding a Connection: Android, Line, and Docomo’s Network Outage
Line has experienced explosive growth -- Photo: ameblo.jp/k-1guide In the wake of its most recent network disruption, Japanese mobile carrier NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) is scrambling to find ways to improve...
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From Singapore, Silicon Valley, and then to China [PREVIEW]
James Tong, the founder of Dextrys, has experience in both of the world’s largest markets, China and U.S. He was born and bred in Singapore, but has spent ten years in the U.S where he created and...
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Driven by Ameba, CyberAgent Continues to Grow
We’ve written much about Japanese internet entertainment company CyberAgent (TYO:4751) over the past year, ranging from its many game offerings for smartphones and social platforms, to its ventures...
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In Wine There’s Profit For a New Chinese E-Commerce Startup
In vino lucror. If it’s a truth that China’s growing middle-classes have a great taste for wine, then profit will surely follow. And so a Beijing-based startup has this month launched a nice-looking...
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Chinese 3G Users Up 80 Million in 2011
2011 was a big year for mobile growth in China, and that extended to China’s 3G userbase. Historically, 3G hasn’t been as popular in China as one might expect, but that’s changing fast. According to...
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Indonesia No Longer World’s Second Largest Facebook Nation
According to new statistics from SocialBakers.com, the hierarchy of the world’s top Facebook nations has just experienced a shift near the top. While the US remains by far the top Facebook nation with...
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360, Sina Weibo to Share Login Credentials, Hold Hands, Pick Flowers Together
Qihoo and Weibo sitting in a tree... Given the dog-eat-dog-then-eat-all-of-dog’s-friends-and-proclaim-himself-king-of-the-dogs nature of China’s interent industry, it’s pretty rare to see tech giants...
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‘Startups in Asia’ Coffee Chat Lineup: No Sugar, its Plenty Sweet Already
During our two-day Startups in Asia (Singapore) event on February 2nd and 3rd, we have an amazing group of industry players lined up for our ‘coffee talk’ series. Over the past few weeks we’ve given...
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Wantedly: Japan’s Trust-based Social Recruiting Site Officially Debuts
On Monday, a Tokyo-based tech startup called Wanted officially released its social recruiting platform Wantedly. The service was developed by ex-FBer Akiko Naka and her buddy Gaku Hagiwara, and it...
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Sribu Receives Funding From East Ventures
Sribu's own explanation of how it works, hooking-up designers with clients. Sribu.com, an Indonesia-oriented service for connecting web/graphic designers with clients, has just announced that it has...
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Which are the Top Twitter Nations?
We recently took a look at Eric Fischer’s Twitter visualization which showed that Asia is a very chatty region when it comes to microblogging, particularly Indonesia. Now French company Semiotics has...
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Is Google Maps China About to Be Shut Down? Probably Not.
Is Google Maps about to disappear from China? Probably Not. China News Service is reporting today that Google Maps may be on its way out in China. If true, the loss would impact millions of Android...
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