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LinkedIn Records 25 Million Users in APAC, Grew By 25 Percent
20 million was the number of LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) users in Asia Pacific (APAC) last publicly announced. Just four months later, today, the figure has grown by 25 percent to 25 million. We were told...
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Japan to Get Kindle Touch in April? [REPORT]
The Nikkei Business Daily is reporting that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will start selling its Kindle ebook reader in Japan as early as April, with pricing falling somewhere in the 10,000 to 20,000 yen range...
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Nokia Lumia Developers’ Day in Bandung Boasts 810 Devs, 8 Winning Apps
Nokia Indonesia together with Microsoft Indonesia held its Nokia Lumia Developers Day 2012 last week in Bandung. With the launch of the WP7-powered Lumia 800 and 710 imminent, they want to boost the...
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Indonesian Idol Girl Group JKT48 Shows the Love for Rakuten [VIDEO]
JKT48, the sister Indonesian idol band of Japanese girl group AKB48, is promoting Rakuten Belanja Online, the joint venture between the Japanese e-commerce platform Rakuten and media giant MNC Group....
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Things are happening. It is a constant of the universe. None of us can escape the relentless march of happening things. But what if you missed some of these things, say, things about tech in China...
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14 Asian Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week
It is post-conference week but our team has been continuing with our work on the blog. In the last seven days, we have had a couple of Asian tech startups on our radar, specifically from China,...
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Bouncity Releases iPhone App, Version 2.0 Coming Soon
Bouncity, the Indonesian startup we first covered in June last year, has finally launched an iOS version of their app. It was released on Android back in November and it is officially available on all...
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SpotDokter Launches, Aims to Provide Health Information to its Users
At the BlitzMegaplex Grand Indonesia in Jakarta, SpotMed Group held a press conference for the launch of a new service. It’s called SpotDokter, and it claims to be the first location-based mobile...
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Shanda, With a View to a Phone of its Own, Launches an Android ROM
The new Lezhong ROM, based on Android, by Shanda. Shanda (NASDAQ:SNDA), a leading web and gaming company in China, has released the open beta of its new Android ROM, dubbed Lezhong. It’s the first step...
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Innovation Works Invests in 2D MMO Game
Kai Fu Lee Sina Tech is reporting that Kai-fu Lee’s incubator Innovation Works’s latest investment is apparently a games studio, Zhuhai Xin Games, that’s working on a 2D massively-multiplayer online...
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Japan’s GREE Has Big Plans for America in 2012
Furthering its already very broad expansion, Japan’s GREE (TYO:3632) announced over the weekend that it would be setting up new offices in San Francisco, in the China Basin area which is home to many...
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What Do You Do When Tencent Copies? Here Are 10 Ways a Startup Can Beat the...
Some of you might have read this article where it quotes Stephen Bell, a Shanghai-based partner at Trinity Ventures, who says he hears this gloomy sentiment all the time: “In the U.S., students think,...
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Indonesia’s Top Two Banks Launch Online Payments Platforms, Finally
The BCA Klikpay launch. (Image source: mustangcorps.com) At the end of January, two of the biggest banks in Indonesia launched payment solutions for e-commerce purposes. BCA (IDX:BBCA), the biggest...
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One Chinese City Raids an Apple Reseller in Growing iPad Trademark Row
"My son's gonna love this when I get home... Er, I mean, I'm seizing this as part of our ongoing investigations!" (Image source: tech.ifeng.com) Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided...
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Malaysia Social Media Week Set to Celebrate Online Communities
Starting today and running until February 17th, Malaysia Social Media Week 2012 is the first event of its kind. Social media is a pivotal part of our daily life today and Social Media Chambers...
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Go-jek Solves Your Motorcycle Taxi Needs in Jakarta
If you have visited Jakarta, chances are you are familiar with the term ‘ojek.’ These are the taxi motorcycles you see on the sideroads. Go-jek, a winner of the Global Entrepreneurship Program...
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A Chinese Perspective: Why Foreign Companies Fail, and How To Succeed In China
Henry Hua, founder and CEO of IDFsoft, a startup company focusing on mobile gaming and gamification, took to the stage at the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing (SoC) last...
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With Facebook Blocked, The Sims Social Goes to China Via Tencent
EA (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced today that its popular gaming franchise, The Sims, is going to make its way into China via the Tencent (HKG:0700) Open Platform. EA says that The Sims Social is in...
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Valentine’s Day Advice from China: Video Game Marriages Last Longer
Is Cupid more active in video games than he is in real life these days? That’d be sad news to release on Valentine’s Day, but in China, it looks like it could be the case. Yesterday, Giant Interactive...
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Local Chinese Government Bureau Decrees No More Pay-Per-Minute Calls,...
I REFUSE TO PAY FOR SECONDS I HAVEN'T USED! Are you sick of paying for a full minute of phone time when your call lasted only a few seconds? Probably not. But if you are, the Harbin Industry and...
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