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Dangdang to Launch E-Book Platform and Apps This Month, E-Reader Next Year
Just my bad mock-up. Dangdang's actual e-reader is due in early 2012. The Chinese e-commerce site Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) is set to follow in the footsteps of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its Kindle when it...
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MiniGames: A Review of Sina Weibo’s Toy Legion
In a bid to monetize its user-friendly but financially dragging giant, Sina recently imbued its Weibo microblogging platform with its own currency — the weibi — and games. But are these games actually...
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Funky Photo-Filter App Vida Brings the Photo-Grunging to Android As Well As...
The Chinese startup Vida has launched an Android version of its photo-sharing app, giving it a cross-platform cousin to its iPhone variant. Vida is perhaps the funkiest of all the locally-made...
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Duolingo Wants To Crowdsource Translation of the Web
Many of you may have seen Luis von Ahn’s recent TED Talk making the rounds on the interwebs. Luis was behind the creation of Captchas, and subsequently re-Captchas, which help digitize books each time...
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Is Alibaba Group Looking at Social e-Commerce?
Laiwang.com: Alibaba Group's social commerce experiment? Social networking site Laiwang.com has many observers all excited about Alibaba Group’s next move. As I said in my last article, Jack Ma and...
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Product Search Engines a New Battleground in China, as Netease Ups Its Armory
The Chinese internet company Netease (NASDAQ:NTES) will launch its own separate product search engine next year, according to the company’s VP, Jin Lei. At present, Netease has a general web search...
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An Interview With The Founder of Hongkiat.com
If you’re into design, art, and/or tech, you’ve likely drawn inspiration from Hongkiat.com before. Hongkiat is a design-focused weblog based in Malaysia and is founded by non-other than Lim Hong Kiat...
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Because Outdoors is for Suckas: Google, Baidu Now Feature Indoor Maps
I noticed a blog post today over on Baidu’s blog (NASDAQ:BIDU) , Baidu Beat, that the company had rolled out indoor maps. What a coincidence, says I, reaching for my China copycat brush — didn’t...
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Gaopeng’s Fake Watch Scandal Just Won’t Go Away
via DailyDealMedia Gaopeng, Groupon’s (NASDAQ:GRPN) official China JV with Tencent, has not been working out well. Recently, problems like personnel issues and a shrinking market share have been...
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Better Late Than Never, Kaixin Gets Its Own Stylish Photo-Sharing App
Two screenshots from Kaixin001's new photo-sharing app, 'TuTeng'. Oh, great… another photo-sharing app with lots of filters. We haven’t reviewed one of those for, like, 24 hours. Yes, Kaixin001,...
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China May Have to Wait for the iPhone 4S After All
A model-number mixup Since the announcement of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) newest phone, there has been speculation as to when, exactly, it will see the light of day in China. Previously, we reported that we...
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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Circle: AKB48 Members Join Google+
Thanks to Asiajin for pointing out that Google+ has just been invaded by famous Japanese pop idols AKB48, as well as their lesser known (at least to me) sister groups SKE48 and NMB48. What’s...
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Beijing’s Central Business District Gets Wi-fi
The Beijing News reports that the whole 3.99 square kilometers of the Beijing CBD (Central Business District) is to be covered with a wireless Internet signal. Soon, you might encounter mobile nomads...
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MusicYun is the Chinese Music Streaming Service With Its Head in the Cloud
Streaming music from the cloud is no longer such a wonderment – but a Chinese music service that also lets you upload and share your own tracks? That’d be quite something. And that’s the approach...
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HAXLR8R Invites Hardware Startups to Accelerator Program in China, Chance to...
We received a note today from the folks at Chinaccelerator alerting us to their just-launched HAXLR8R, a partnership accelerator program with SeeedStudio, a ‘hardware facilitation’ company based in...
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Indonesia’s BlueBird Taxi Picks You up with Help from Android and iOS
Blue Bird Group, the largest taxi company in Indonesia, has officially launched its mobile app today at Plaza Indonesia Extension, Jakarta. It’s not just for Blackberry anymore, but they have now also...
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Social and Mobile, This is How India Enjoys the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. India and China are often mentioned in the same breath, as Asia’s powerhouse economies....
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Korea Telecom Acquires Enswers For $40 Million
Enswer, a Korean tech firm founded by Jack Kim, mainly deals with video sharing, video search, and video advertising. It was acquired by Korea Telecom for $40 million, the company recently announced it...
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Asia Loves Android Apps, Has Most Downloads Per Capita [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. To commemorate its 10 billion apps milestone, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has released a great...
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Want To Meet Investors At Startup Asia? Here’s How
We’re still not getting a ton of sleep these days, but what keeps me going is that I know that we’re building something that provides real value to the community — both our blog and our Startup Asia...
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