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An Entrepreneur Says Goodbye: The Story of a Chinese Failure
Early this morning, the China Business News ran an interesting feature on a failed Chinese entrepreneur. If you can read Chinese, I suggest the original, but for those who can’t, I thought it also...
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Didi Nugrahadi’s Journey As a Founder: From Detik.com to Inmark, Teladan, and...
Great entrepreneurs are everywhere in Asia. I recently met one who I would say is addicted to entrepreneurship. He is Didi Nugrahadi, an Indonesian serial entrepreneur who founded Detik.com (acquired...
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Own-Brand Clothing Etailer Crucco Hopes that “Slow Fashion” Brings Quick Growth
Combining e-commerce with building your own fashion brand is one massive task – and so it’s perhaps with quite some relief that the Chinese B2C clothing site Crucco is celebrating its first...
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Digital Garage Acquires Photozou from Zynga Japan
Tokyo-based Digital Garage today announced that it has acquired photo-sharing service Photozou, a service that has been operating since 2005. It was previously owned and operated by Unoh Inc, a...
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Path to be Available in Chinese, Japanese, and Indonesian Soon
“Hello World,” says Path on its latest blog post. The social network which limits you to 150 of your closest friends is seeing a lot of traction in Asia. And to facilitate faster growth, Path is...
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eBuddy XMS-SMS Rolls Out iMessage-Like Feature, Targets Indonesia and India...
Group messaging – or so-called over-the-top (OTT) messaging – apps have been featured a lot in the news of late, with big plans hailing from China’s Weixin rebranding as WeChat in order to go global,...
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China Charges 5 People in Kidney-for-iPad Affair
There’s some follow-up information coming from Chinese news agency Xinhua regarding the sad story from last spring about a 17-year-old boy in China who sold his kidney to buy an iPad 2. Five...
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9 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
In China this week many people had time off for Qingming Festival, but there was still plenty of news going down. Here’s a quick rundown of some the notable stories we saw during the past seven days....
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8 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 Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, China, India, and Singapore. For folks who are interested in investing or...
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On the Dangers of Being a Technology Whore
The other day my colleague Charlie had his say about developments in technology and their affect on how we live. In a nutshell, he noted that technology brings immense benefits, but he also pondered...
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30 Days To Go: Join Us At GMIC in China
The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is a two-day conference in Beijing, China. If you’re interested in mobile and/or China, this is a must attend conference. We were there last year and I’m...
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Kowtow Alert: TuneIn Censors Its Own Radio App in China
Click to enlarge the TuneIn app screenshot. China’s web isolationism has taken a bizarre new turn with the American radio streaming app TuneIn admitting that it is censoring its own app at the behest...
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Rumor: CMGE Planning NYSE IPO
A US IPO seems to be the preferred endgame of Chinese tech companies these days, and now we may have another one to add to the list: the China Mobile Games and Entertainment Group. Sina Tech says the...
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Sakura Now: An Augmented Reality Cherry Blossom Photo App
In Japan, there’s a popular phenomenon called purikura, or personalized photos upon which you can add custom decorations and designs. Capitalizing on that spirit is Japanese developer Rocket Ryoko,...
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Making Mistakes, Learning, and Moving On
I’m usually pretty critical with my writings (and of my team members’). I’m also very critical of myself, which I believe is one of the necessary success factors of any startup. It’s the typical...
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China’s Attempt to Banish Online Rumors is as Vague as the War On Terror
The ‘Internet Society of China’ (ISC) has today released a paper entitled Written Proposal on Resisting Internet Rumors that aims to use a mixture of education and stricter regulations to prevent...
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360Buy Train Ticket Sales Service Suspended, Other Sites Still Offering...
Just a week after it was launched, 360Buy has yanked its train ticket purchasing services, citing a low level of success in actually acquiring tickets. The service had offered train tickets at a...
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There’s an App Add-On For That: Get a Mouthful of Shanghai’s Soup Dumplings
Even though Shanghai is now a vast, sprawling metropolis, there are still ample opportunities to fill your face with traditional local snacks and street food. But such tiny taste treats are not on...
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Japan is the Latest Country to Get Branded Twitter Pages
Photo: communication-solutions.tmcnet.com Twitter announced today that it has rolled out brand pages for companies in Japan, following up on the feature’s initial launch in the US last December. The...
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Taobao Launches Pinterest Clone Wantu
Everybody in China seems to be getting into the Pinterest clone business these days, so perhaps it was only a matter of time. This morning, Taobao launched its own social photo-sharing platform....
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