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Qihoo Takes Tencent to Court Tomorrow, Accuses It of Being Monopolistic
Towards the end of 2010 there was a very public, 10-week long battle between two Chinese web companies, Tencent and Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU), that caused alarm at how online data privacy was not being...
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Gmarket Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, and Indonesia to Rebrand to Qoo10
Most of the folks in Southeast Asia know about Gmarket. But this familiar name will soon be gone in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The e-commerce giant will be rebranded to Qoo10,...
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360Buy Has 40 Million Users, Processes 400,000 Orders Per Month
Although Alibaba (Taobao, Tmall, etc.) is still the 800 pound gorilla in the world of Chinese e-commerce, 360Buy has been building up some momentum. At a press conference earlier today, 360Buy CMO Lan...
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Blackberry Photo App PicMix Reaches 1 Million Users, Says That’s Faster Than...
We all know that Instagram was bought by Facebook just recently. The photo app craze has reached not only iOS and Android, but apparently Blackberry too. One of the apps trying to catch that crowd,...
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Kickstarter Project Funds Film About Chinese Citizen Journalists
We write a lot about startups who create apps and web services, but we don’t often get a chance to write about people who are making waves in the media space — especially in China. It’s there we find...
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Bing Translator App for WP7 Can Now Speak, Read, Scan Chinese
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone platform has just given itself an interesting linguistic edge in China by adding support for translating to/from Chinese in its Bing Translator app. This now...
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Local Heroes and Speakers at Startup Asia Jakarta
Our own Willis Wee and business development wizard, Minghao, are currently based in Jakarta to prepare for Tech in Asia’s Startup Asia Jakarta which will be happening this June 7 – 8. All this would...
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Qihoo CEO Zhou Hongyi Sends Internal Memo Explaining Tencent Lawsuit
The bad blood between Qihoo and Tencent runs pretty deep at this point. Last year’s PR slugfest has evolved into a series of court cases, the latest of which begins today in Guangdong. Tencent stands...
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HP, Samsung, Panasonic Found Dumping New But Defective Gadgets in China Landfill
These HP hard-drives went straight from HP to the dump at Guiyu in China because they were defective. (All images from shanghaiscrap.com). An investigation into what makes up the e-waste that’s piling...
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Netease’s Dragon Blade Will Launch Beta This Year
We’e been following Netease’s Dragon Blade for a little while now, mostly because we still haven’t been able to get a handle on exactly what it is. Well, that’s not entirely true; it’s a 3D PC game...
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A Visit to CyberAgent Ventures’ Startup Base Camp
This week I had a chance to visit Startup Base Camp, the Tokyo-based incubation office of CyberAgent Ventures. The area is a cleverly designed workspace which currently houses a number of local...
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Cooliris Redesigns LiveShare for Mobile and Web
A few days ago Cooliris announced the launch of its redesigned LiveShare service. With the LiveShare app, users can send messages, post photos and photo collages, or share your location. Billed as...
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Google Maps Loses Market Share Lead in China For First Time
New stats for mobile mapping clients used in China show that Google Maps has, for the first time ever, lost its leading position in the country, losing it by a fraction to Autonavi (NASDAQ:AMAP)....
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Passion or Money First?
Last weekend, the folks [1] from Jakarta Founders Institute organized an interesting open discussion session that discussed whether passion or money should come first for entrepreneurs. It’s an...
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Panasonic Wants to Live Broadcast an Eclipse Using Solar Power
Today Panasonic (TYO:6752) announced a fun project that will see it live broadcast the upcoming solar eclipse on May 20 to the world from the top of My. Fuji [1]. The remarkable part here is that the...
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Rumor: Baidu in Talks With Foxconn, Perhaps For a Baidu-Branded Phone
Just our own quick photoshop of a Baidu-branded phone - not the real thing. Rumors in the Chinese tech industry say that Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has been in secret talks with the...
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Did Sina Just Introduce — and then Kill — an Anonymous News Reporting Platform?
Another day, another weird thing happening with Sina Weibo. This morning, we came across this story on China Internet Watch about a new weibo platform launched by Sina called Weibo Expose. The...
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London Mayor Fails at Weibo, Copy-and-Pasting Random Messages From Twitter
Surely the key element of social media marketing is to keep it relevant. And so London Mayor, Boris Johnson, seems to be failing at reaching out to Chinese folks on his new Sina Weibo account (see it...
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Samsung Responds, Denies Dumping E-Waste in China
Samsung says these unused components are "old" and dumped by an unknown customer, not the company itself. (Image credit: ShanghaiScrap). Yesterday we looked at photographic evidence that suggested that...
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Inside the Singapore Offices of Softlayer, the Server Power Behind ‘Draw...
The Draw Something phenomenon was absolutely overwhelming when it first went viral; everyone was talking about it and getting hooked on the game. Judging from the information obtained from AppData.com...
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