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Looking to Hire Creatives? Go Browse The Creative Finder
The story at portfolio service The Creative Finder started with an email from a photographer to the folks at DesignTAXI: Hi, I’d like to have my portfolio on your website, but I’m a photographer and...
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7 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week ended with a huge bang as Chinese authorities meted out serious punishment to Twitter-like Weibo sites. But before that, we saw Nokia beginning its renaissance in China, DeNA pushing its...
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5 Asian Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week
In the last seven days, we have covered a couple of startups on Tech in Asia, specifically from Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with these...
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China Not Too Bubbly
We all know that China is tough on censorship. So much so that it blocked out Sina and Tencent Weibo comments over the weekend over concerns about false rumors. Such censorship barriers made it hard...
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Japanese Idol Group Engages Fans by Releasing Motion Capture Dance Data on...
There are many approaches to making your content go viral on the web. Japanese idol group Perfume probably doesn’t need much help in that department, as any video they put on the web is going to get...
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UC Browser Breaks 40 Million Active Users Outside China, Launches...
A lot of people — especially Western tech pundits — think that in the tech sphere, products and ideas tend to flow into rather than out of China. And it’s true that many of China’s biggest tech...
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Dear Entrepreneurs: Please Look For Investors With Entrepreneurial Experience
I often find that investors with no entrepreneurial experience kinda suck. I mean, if you are giving advice to startups, you really should have at least gone through the highs and lows of an...
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China’s Group Messaging Giant to Get English Name, WeChat, and Go Global
Weixin is already the world’s biggest group messaging app, having last week accrued 100 million users. But that was achieved mostly thanks to enthusiastic Chinese users. Now, new reports suggest that...
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Han Han Finally Starts Using Weibo
Han Han, one of China’s most popular bloggers and certainly its most popular author-slash-race-car-driver, has posted a new article to Sina Weibo. This is such an unusual event that it has become a...
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Guess What? Tencent Clones Zynga’s Draw Something [LEAKED PICTURES]
Leaked images suggest that China's Tencent will soon launch this Draw Something clone. No sooner has the smash-hit social game Draw Something been bought up by Zynga [1] than we hear that China’s...
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Fujitsu Acquires Toshiba’s Stake in Mobile Joint Venture
Fujitsu Arrows Kiss handset (F-03D) Some readers might recall our look at the Japanese smartphone market last month which showed that the iPhone had become the top dog for the first time, taking the...
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Decoding Sina Weibo’s Real-Name Strategy
The Tencent penguin's scarf isn't always just a fashion accessory. It’s no secret that Sina Weibo’s laissez-faire attitude towards implementing real-name registration and controlling (false) coup...
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C2: The Social Network That Transports You to a Stranger’s Life
For all the power that the internet has to enable us to explore, poke, and pry, it is rarely done in a way that is positive and culturally enriching – not invasive or creepy. And so the new C2 app –...
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April Fools Pranks You May Have Missed from Google’s Asia Offices
I’m not a big fan of April Fools Day on the internet [1]. There were more than a few online pranks that were less than impressive this year. But perhaps no one put more effort into their pranks more...
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For The Sake of the Community, Get Qualified Speakers
Indonesia has gotten a lot of attention. And it’s natural that we’re seeing more startups and investors stepping into Indonesia. The community at large welcomes any new member (so to speak). We’re all...
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MIIT Sets Target for China’s Broadband Growth: 50% of Users on 4 Mbps...
Since late last year, broadband speed in China — especially in major cities — has been a hot topic of conversation, and ISPs have been battling to raise connection speeds for lower prices than their...
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ChinaCast Suspended on NASDAQ, Another Chinese Tech Stock in Turmoil
The online learning platform ChinaCast (NASDAQ:CAST) has had its NASDAQ stocks suspended after failing to file its Form 10K for 2011 on time. It has until April 10th, one week from now, to get its...
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Netease’s ‘Game-X’ is Now Dragon Blade, and it Looks Like a Multiplayer God...
A couple weeks ago we told you about “Game-X”, a mystery project from Netease (NASDAQ:NTES) that promised to make dreams come true and defied attempts to figure out what the heck it actually was. Now,...
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Now You, Too, Can Spy on Ai Weiwei
China’s most iconoclastic modern artist, Ai Weiwei, has been under a lot of scrutiny lately. Police scrutiny, of the kind that entails video surveillance and plainclothes agents and that sort of thing....
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So, Uh, I Got a Condom in the Invitation Parcel from ‘Buy Me A Drink’ App
People are getting creative with their marketing tactics, because essentially you need to be different to stand out from the crowd. Some adopt interesting methods, and it especially impresses me when...
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