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Rival Chinese Video Sites Each Land New Content Partnerships
Amid interesting (and somewhat controversial) numbers regarding China’s online video market, both the leading video site Youku (NYSE:YOKU) as well as perpetual number two, Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) have...
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East Ventures Gets Fashionable With Investment in Berrybenka
Women’s e-commerce can often be the hottest e-tailing ticket – and with that prospect in mind, the Indonesian fashion site Berrybenka has secured funding from East Ventures. The terms of the VC backing...
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Why Chinese Consumers Can’t Resist Movie Ticket Deals [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.When we looked at the most recent stats last month for the group-buy market in mainland...
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After Passing 20 Million Mobile Downloads, ‘Line’ Gets Desktop Apps for Mac...
It was just a few days ago that Naver Japan’s mobile messenger and voice application Line surpassed the 20 million downloads mark. Now the service is getting the tablet and desktop apps that were...
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Alibaba Climbing, Google Slipping, in China’s Online Ad Market
Alibaba's ads in action on its ad platform page.New stats just released by Analysys International show the online ad market in China expanding once again, with Alibaba and Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) showing...
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Apple Launches New iPad; Not Much There for China
via Ars TechnicaAttention, rock-dwellers: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) launched a new iPad today. It supports 4G-LTE networks, features a 2048×1536 pixel retina display and a faster processor, a new camera (the...
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Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Eyes Indonesia Market
CyberAgent’s Net Impact Jakarta conference yesterday had a fun mixture of Japanese, Vietnam, and Chinese Internet companies. Among them was Tencent, whereby Sean Zhang, director of Tencent’s Mobile...
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Chinese Railway Ministry: We’ll Do Better Next Year
China’s Railway Ministry’s forays into the world of advanced technology have gone well. In cyberspace there was the embarassing disaster of this year’s online ticketing system, which started broken and...
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MD of Skype Asia Pacific Leaves to Pursue New Startup
Update: T would like to inform everyone that Travelmob is still in beta now. The official launch will be announced as soon as the team is ready.Managing director of Skype Asia Pacific, Turochas “T”...
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Meet Hedy, China’s Most Audacious Smartphone Cloners
Whoever works at the design department at Hedy (SHE:002027), a Chinese phone manufacturer, must have very worn-down Ctrl, C, and V keys on their keyboards because all their smartphone models are...
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Tuanbao CEO Ren Chunlei: ‘Investment is Poison’
Tuanbao (aka Groupon.cn) CEO Ren Chunlei is quickly becoming my new favorite internet crazy person. Hot on the heels of his decision to stop accepting money from customers — all deals on Tuanbao are...
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Chinese Women-Oriented Deals Site Attracts $5 Million in US VC Funding
While most of the far-too-numerous daily deals sites in China are going through a rough time, the woman-oriented group buying website MaiHao has today announced that it has secured some major...
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Japan’s Mobile Subscribers Over 15 Years [CHART]
For anyone interested in the Japanese mobile market, the figures from the Telecommunications Carriers Association website are a great resource. Interestingly, the monthly mobile subscriber figures go...
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Weiku Wants You to Tweet Videos, Keep ‘Em Brief
If last year was all about social photo-sharing, 2012 looks set to see a boom in video-sharing. And there’s yet another Chinese startup entering this sector with the launch of Weiku. It comes with an...
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Taobao Launches Microsite to “Name and Shame” Counterfeit Sellers and Cheats
Alibaba has long been criticized for not being tough enough on cheats and counterfeiters who use platforms like Taobao to trick consumers. And while they clearly have a ways to go — just see this...
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Angry Birds Hits Japan for Cherry Blossom Season, Partners with Fuji TV
Ever since Rovio chose to celebrate its 2nd birthday in Japan, it was expected that a Japanese version of Angry Birds Seasons was in the works. The game developer just yesterday pushed out a cherry...
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The Social Credit Card, Will You Get One?
Everything has to be somehow social nowadays —- websites, learning, and uh… credit cards?! Citibank Singapore recently launched a credit card, the Clear Platinum Card, which allows Facebook fanatics to...
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Vietnam’s Speedy Internet Makes It Game-Worthy
“Do you know about Vietnam?” This is a common question I get recently, telling of a growing interest about the country. We see gaming companies like DeNA (TYO:2432) taking an extra interest in Vietnam....
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Giant Interactive’s Long Journey 2 to Cooperate with Pepsi
According Chinese news site TechWeb citing well-informed sources in the games industry, Giant Interactive’s (NYSE:GA) hit MMORPG Long Journey 2 just got a new business partner. And, as strange as this...
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Nokia’s SEC Filing Reveals Phone Sales Down 20% in China in 2011
It seems that 2010 was Nokia’s zenith in China, with Nokia’s new SEC filing for full year 2011 revealing that last year proved to be the start of an ugly fall from grace.Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) net...
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