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Agate Studio Wants to Make the World Happier With Games
Agate Studio is probably one of the few great mobile gaming startups in Indonesia that we haven’t been really able to cover yet. Agate Studio is really good at making games as well as holding events...
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Taiwan’s EZTABLE Raises $1.5 Million in Series A Round, Heads to Mainland China
Exclusive — Taiwan-based, online restaurant reservation site, EZTABLE, informed us that it has just raised $1.5 million from lead investor, Rose Park Advisors, (by Clayton Christensen and Matt...
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Japan’s Chocokure App Helps You Ask Girls for Chocolate. Sign Me Up!
Tokyo-based serial entrepreneur and web service producer Kazuma Ieiri has brought us yet another entertaining web app. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. And here in Japan, it’s a sort of...
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Twitmusic Wants to Disrupt Music Distribution Through Twitter
Good content goes viral on Twitter. The 2009 Hudson River plane crash news that went viral on the microblog has inspired Philippines-based Twitmusic to re-imagine how artists can leverage Twitter to...
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Report: Flipkart Keen to Go Shopping, Wants to Take Home LetsBuy
The Indian e-commerce leader Flipkart is doing some shopping of its own, and is reportedly keen on buying up LetsBuy.com. Since LetsBuy is one of its main, smaller rivals in the Indian market, then...
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All Japan’s Earthquakes in 2011, Visualized in One Startling Video
There have been a number of visualizations related to last year’s March 11 earthquake in Japan. But this just might be the most insightful one that I’ve come across to date. Created by YouTube user...
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Makehappy Gives Indian E-Commerce a Charitable Twist
Makehappy is an experiment in charitable and social e-commerce that was created to make people feel good about shopping online. Launched on February 1st by a multi-national startup team, the site...
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Sh*t Lei Jun Says (That Startups Should Listen To)
Lei Jun, via Sina Tech Lei Jun, the CEO of Xiaomi, has a big personality. He also has a history of success when it comes to tech startups and investment in China, which means people take what he says...
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Lenovo Rides Strong Performance in China to Dominate Asia Region [CHART]
We already knew that things were looking up for Chinese PC maker Lenovo (HKG:0992) this past year when the company surpassed rival Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) for the number two spot in global PC shipments,...
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Lexulous Launches On Ibibo, Get Ready to Cheat With a Dictionary
India’s largest online social gaming site, Ibibo, today has another attraction for its users – the popular word game Lexulous. Since the Scrabble-like social game was created by two Kolkata-based...
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Angry Birds Still Flying High in China with Online Tmall Store
Angry Birds Earmuffs for 98 RMB or about $15 You can’t seem to get away from those Angry Birds here in China. I’ve been to a Starbucks where the moment I was served, the xylophonic trills of Angry...
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Android DevCamp in 10+ Cities Across Asia, 48 Hours of Hacking Awaits
Cute Android bots are irresistible. Form a team, brainstorm ideas, and hack your Android app within 48 hours. A total of 10 cities (so far) across Asia will be holding the Android DevCamp...
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Jakarta Founder Institute Graduates Its Fall Batch of Startups
The 13 young founders onstage at the graduation ceremony. At the Pacific Place in Jakarta yesterday, Jakarta Founder Institute graduated its fall batch of startups. This selected crew started four...
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Entrepreneurs: Go Big or Go Home
We ran a investors-meet-entrepreneurs session at Plugin @ Blk 71 as part of our Startups in Asia (Singapore) networking session last Saturday. And oh boy that was pretty fiery panel of overseas...
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Debrief: Startups in Asia 2012 (Singapore)
Vibease received the most love from the audience despite not winning at Arena. We had a funnn and productive two-day conference in Singapore. As a team, we are fairly pleased with how everything went...
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360Buy Opens a Hotel Booking Site, Now Has a Full Online Travel Service
China’s second-largest e-commerce site, 360Buy, continues its very aggressive expansion today with the launch of a hotel booking site. It’s quite a break away from the company’s usual focus on books,...
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Pirating ‘Glorious Mission’? You May Be Violating Military Secrecy Laws!
Pirating computer games isn’t cool. (And neither are drugs, kids. Stay in school.) But generally, game pirates get accused of violating copyright laws, not military secrecy regulations. So Chinese game...
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Rift is Coming to China
Other Western game developers seem to be finally realizing what Blizzard has known for years — if you’ve got a massively-multiplayer fantasy game, there’s money to be made in China. Rift — a game which...
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Jeremy Lin Brings the ‘Linsanity’ to China’s Weibo
Jeremy Lin's - @jlin7 - Weibo page. American-Chinese basketball player Jeremy Lin has shot to stardom in the past few days after an astonishing run of performances for the New York Knicks. This has...
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Need a Hotel Fast? Baidu Maps Has Got Your Back
example hotel search. click to embiggen Today has been a pretty good day for the hotel business in China. First we saw e-commerce giant 360Buy launch its own hotel booking service at hotel.360buy.com....
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