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Bandwagon Wants You To Jump Onboard its Live Music Search Engine
Love live music gigs? So do I. I bumped into Clarence, founder of Bandwagon.sg, through a common friend during our event, Startups In Asia. Bandwagon, founded in October 2011, is a live music gig...
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Limited Resources? Here’s How ISGLOVES Bootstrapped the Smart Way
Having lived in Beijing for close to a year, I’m used to the full four seasons (as opposed to here in Singapore) and understand how annoying it is trying to pick up a call or replying to a message...
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Wonderful Day Keeps You on Task, Hits iTunes Charts in India
Some of the three tasks that most of us hate and/or tend to forget: 1. Going for a weekly jog, 2. paying monthly bills, and 3. buying diapers for kids. It’s hard to keep up with these routines because...
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Fokado Offers Fun Activities That You Can Give as Gifts
Fokado is one of the startups that has just graduated from the Jakarta Founders Institute two weeks ago. Fokado is trying to provide an alternative way for you to give someone a gift. So, rather than...
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The Island at the Center of the World
Sameer is partner at August Capital Partners, a VC fund focused on early stage consumer products and services businesses. You can follow him on Twitter @sameernarula. From IFC's 'Ease of Doing...
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MIIT Says Telecom Growth Outpaced GDP Growth Last Year
Phones. Lots of people are using them. (via New York Times) Everyone knows China’s GDP has been climbing at a pretty astonishing rate for some time now. But the telecommunications industry is growing...
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Chinese-Made 3D Launcher App Wants to Blow Your Android’s Mind
The TSF Shell launcher app, which will launch next week on February 29th. An amazing 3D homescreen interface experience is about to hit Android phones, and it’s thanks to a team of Chinese engineers...
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Mobage Social Gaming Comes to Huawei Smartphones in China
Having launched Daum Mobage in Korea earlier this week, DeNA (TYO:2432) just announced that it will be bringing its social gaming platform to Huawei smartphones in China now too. This means that the...
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As Sure As Night Follows Day, Tencent Launches a Pinterest Clone
With grim inevitability, we see that the Chinese social media behemoth Tencent (HKG:0700) has today launched a Pinterest clone called Dutu. Like all such social pinboard sites, it’s all about sharing...
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Game Studio Chocoarts Raises Money From Angels, Builds Branded Games
Jakarta-based game studio, Chocoarts, just raised a round of seed funding from several independent angels. The investment sum and the angels are undisclosed. With the new cash injection, Chocoarts’...
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Baidu Establishes Joint Research Lab with A*STAR, Sets Eyes on Southeast Asia
This afternoon at Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) headquarters, the company signed an agreement with I2R (a part of A*STAR) that establishes a joint lab, to be called BIRC, in Singapore. The lab will initially...
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AppSEO Wants to Help You Optimize for App Store Search
A new search optimization service for apps, AppSEO, is available in public beta today. The service is a web-based tool from the folks over at Japan-based AppGrooves, which some of our readers might be...
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Hey Mr. Social DJ Put a Record On I Wanna Dance With My Baby
One of China’s leading music-streaming and subscription music sites, Xiami, has this week launched a Turntable.fm clone to let its users be DJs. Called Xiami Loop, it’s centred around virtual rooms...
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Singapore, Indonesia, and Lazy Founders
Funny quote. But not too funny if it is put into practice. Credit: funniestcorner.com Singapore is the best place to startup because it is easy to legalize a business and it is a comfortable place to...
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Charles Chao: Weibo Looking to Boost Business Accounts
At a conference last night in Taipei, Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) CEO and Chairman Charles Chao spoke about the importance of Sina Weibo as a channel for marketing. To that end, Chao says, Sina is hoping to...
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Daily Deals Market in China Sees Groupon Failing Badly, Movie Tickets in Demand
Group-buy aggregators and analysts Dataotuan are back in action, tracking 125 deals sites throughout January to find the latest trends among consumers in China, and to see how the sites themselves are...
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Our Ethics Page
We recently added an Ethics page on our site where readers can learn more about our policies, our investors, and our editorial process. This is something we have been working on for a couple of months....
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Product Search Engine Finds Itself $7.1 Million in Funding, Aims to Topple...
The Chinese product search engine B5M.com has attracted and secured a significant US$7.1 million in series A funding that was led by Oak Investment Partners and Giosis Holdings. It will strengthen the...
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No Gamer is an Island: Dollar Isle Unites Players Across Platforms
At our Startups in Asia conference I briefly met up with Juha Paananen, who heads up GamesMadeMe, a Finnish-Singaporean gaming company which focuses on ‘cross-browser’ HTML5 games. Juha told me a...
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China is About to Break 1 Billion Mobile Phone Users
China has the most people of any nation on earth, and it’s hard to imagine that at this point it doesn’t have the most cellphones too. According to the latest data from MIIT, China will break the one...
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