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Singapore Startup Flocations Shares What It’s Like to be on Angel’s Gate
The Flocations team at JFDI in Singapore Fans of Asian startups probably already know about Angel’s Gate, since it’s a reality show for startups that’s backed by some of Asia’s biggest venture funds....
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The Challenge of Digital Remembrance
As you most likely know, Japan marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic March 11th earthquake and tsunami yesterday. For me, living in Tokyo, the enormity of the disaster was and still is...
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Key Takeaways From CyberAgent Ventures’ Net Impact
DeNA onstage at Net Impact in Jakarta. CyberAgent Ventures Indonesia held its Net Impact Conference less than a week ago in the Grand Hyatt hotel, Jakarta. It is CyberAgent Ventures’ initiative to help...
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LinkedIn Hits a Milestone in the Philippines
We’ve been watching LinkedIn’s (NYSE:LNKD) growth in Asia over the past year or so. Just last month the network announced it had reached 25 million users in the Asia Pacific region. While the vast...
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Youku and Tudou Shares Sky-Rocket After Yesterday’s $1.1 Billion Merger
Markets in the US reacted positively to the Youku Tudou merger as shares in both firms sky-rocketed. Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO), the smaller of the two Chinese video-sharing sites which is effectively being...
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InvestLab Secures Funding from Citi and VantagePoint, Plans Financial App...
InvestLab InvestLab is a Hong Kong-based financial tech startup that hasn’t been around long but has been making big waves in Asia. Recently, we learned that InvestLab had secured investment from Citi...
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Philippines Gets 3 Major Startup Events Soon, Including First Ever Startup...
The startup scene in the Philippines seems to be really gaining a lot more traction in 2012 – and three major events in the coming months will push that forward even more. On April 27 to 29, Startup...
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On the Chinese Internet, Anything Can Be Deleted If You’ve Got the Cash
The website of one post deletion company March 15, World Consumer Rights Day, is something of a big deal in China. Among other things, state broadcast conglomerate CCTV generally uses it as an excuse...
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Japan’s Social Network for Drinking, Sakebii, Finally Launches
Some of you may recall Japanese startup Sakebii from our Startup Arena competition back in February [1]. We received word from its founder Ryo Umezawa, who tells us that their iOS app has just...
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Momo App Reaches 2 Million Flirty Users, Says Some of its Couples Have Married
The location-based flirting app Momo, which we reviewed last December, has hit an impressive milestone – its user numbers have shot past the two million mark. Momo allows people to chat – or hook up –...
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Gobi Partners and Angels Sell CIB To Asiasoft at $13 Million Valuation
CIB website: cib.com.my Gobi Partners, a China-Singapore venture fund, together with a group of angel investors, announced today its sales of CIB stakes to Asiasoft. CIB is an online operator of games...
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Referoll Rewards You for Participating in Market Research
Here’s a startup catered towards companies who need market research respondents: Referoll aims to be the platform to recruit these quickly and efficiently, and incentivize its users for participating....
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A Closer Look at the iPhone’s Rise to the Top in Japan [CHART]
As you may have heard by now, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone accounted for the largest share of mobile shipments in Japan for the fourth quarter of 2011, according to research firm IDC Japan. This...
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Creatary Makes Monetizing Your Mobile App Easier, Allows Carrier Billing
Backed by the Nokia Siemens Network, Creatary consists of an API to put in your app that connects to the telecom company’s infrastructure. That way your app can draw on telco features such as SMS,...
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Announcing Startup Asia Jakarta!
For Bahasa Indonesia version of this post, click here. We wrapped up Startup Asia Singapore just over a month ago. The response has been great, and it motivates us to keep moving and building. At the...
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Give Startups Some Love: Test Out Their Apps
Vineet is the founder and CEO of Teliportme, an India-based start-up. Having first called-out three major issues with the Indian start-up scene, he then tackled the problems with finding mentors and...
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NPC Rep: Telecoms Not Stopping Spam Texts is a Crime
Garbage text messages is pretty annoying, especially when they wake you up in the middle of the night. But are they a crime? Chen Weicai thinks so, and he says that telecom operators who fail to stop...
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Baidu HR Staffer Launches Pop Career with Debut Song ‘Angry Birds’
A human resources office worker at the Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has transformed into a pop star today with the launch of her first-ever song. Fittingly, the single by 23-year old Liu...
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MilkADeal and HiShop Malaysia Combine With New Funding From CHI
MilkADeal is a group-buying site. HiShop Malaysia is a flash sales site, the sort of e-commerce that opens exclusively to members for a limited period of time and focuses on selling just branded goods...
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Chinese ‘Call of Duty’ Game ‘Glorious Mission’ Unveils New Logo, Character,...
Chinese gamers have been waiting a long time for news on the consumer version of the PLA-sponsored military training FPS Glorious Mission. Now, they’ve finally got some new information to pore over, in...
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