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China’s E-Commerce Giant Launches its Taobao Browser
China’s e-commerce king, Taobao, now has a PC web browser of its own that’s aimed at – surprise, surprise – web shoppers and providing security when making online payments. In addition, it boasts...
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Google Starts Work on Data Center in Taiwan
Photo: ithome.com.tw Internet search giant Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced that it has started building a new data center in Changhua County in Taiwan, and has plans for limited testing and...
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Japanese Researchers Develop Kinect Game System that Reacts to Tongue Movement
It’s always fun to see new Kinect hacks, particularly if they are from Japan. Some of you might recall the augmented reality breasts from Osaka-based Ningen Inc. last year as a particularly...
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LinkedIn Launches Japanese ‘Navi’ Site
LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) is continuing its strong Asia push, having passed the 25 million user mark in the APAC region back in February. The service officially launched in Japan back in October, and...
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Instagram for Android Arrives, But Missing Sina Weibo Support
The massively popular Instagram app has just arrived on Android – but, oddly, it is missing the support for Sina Weibo, China’s hottest microblog service, that was added to its iOS version last month....
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Tokopedia Receives Funding From Netprice
Last year, Tokopedia received investment from CyberAgent Ventures. And today, we just learned that it has received a new round of investment from Netprice.com, Ltd. Investment details are undisclosed....
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The Sina Weibo App is Very, Very Addictive!
The real-name saga is ongoing in China, but I’m still able to tweet via Sina Weibo through its iPhone app. I have to admit that the real-name controversy keeps me going back to Weibo recently to check...
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Amazon China CEO: B2C is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
B2C in China is big business, and it’s a big business that Alibaba’s Tmall is currently kind of dominating. Taking a gander at the chart below might be intimidating for anyone running a B2C site in...
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Catch Gorgeous Indonesian Art On Google Art Project
You can now view Indonesian artwork online, thanks to Google Art Project. Museum Nasional Indonesia is one of the 151 cultural institutions to be involved, and The Museum Nasional Indonesia category...
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Thoughts on the XBox 360′s Potential in China
As a fan of console games and the owner of a legit, non-hacked Xbox 360, I have a tough time in China. Because consoles are banned here, it’s very difficult to find legit copies of games. Most gamers...
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Social Music Service Beatrobo Raises $600,000 in Funding
Social music site Beatrobo has received funding from three companies: CyberAgent Ventures, KLab Ventures, and Movida Japan. The total investment sum is $600,000. The website (beatrobo.com) is in...
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China’s MIIT To Release Privacy Protection Standards
A net user scanning his train ticket to reveal encoded personal information. Protecting your personal information online is important. And a series of high-profile hacks late last year shed light on...
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The World’s Most Competitive Cities: Asian Hubs Strong, Yet Diverse...
Back in February we looked at why Singapore is perhaps the best place in the world for entrepreneurs to do business. Today we have a new infographic (created for us by infographic.jp) that compares...
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BingDian Hotels App Lets Users Check-In to Auctions, Loyalty Discounts
A new Chinese startup has launched that claims to help hotels sell more directly to consumers and thereby build up better customer loyalty than on conventional e-commerce platforms. Its BingDian...
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LiiHo IM App: A New Way to Chat as You Draw Something and Doodle With Friends
A Taiwanese-made messaging app looks set to cash in on the craze for doodling that was stirred up by the OMGpop/Zynga game Draw Something. The app, LiiHo Handwriting Messenger, is free and out now for...
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Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We Should
Project Glass Like many people, yesterday I caught a glimpse of ‘Project Glass.’ Google’s augmented reality glasses definitely look cool, but they also got me thinking about the tech industry in...
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India’s Zomato Expands into Print Restaurant Guides
As someone who has traveled around a bit, I really like any service or application which tries to catalogue points of interest in a city. India’s Zomato food and restaurant guide is one such service...
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New Rikai Browser Lets You Read Chinese with Ease
For language students, the smartphone revolution has brought many tools to help with your study. I’m a big fan of SRSs which help you ‘bury’ the things you already know, in favor of studying the...
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Tudou Launches Video E-commerce Feature with Pepsi
WHERE CAN I CLICK TO GET THE PEPSI? Tudou — which is now a part of Youku, so maybe we should be saying Youku — launched an ecommerce integration feature on its website on March 30, which at present is...
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10 Chinese Social Video-Sharing Apps to Watch in 2012
As so often happens in the Chinese web landscape, there’s already a very healthy amount of competition amongst what some people think will be the hottest type of app in 2012: social video-sharing apps....
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