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8 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week’s China tech scene saw a high-profile e-commerce failure, an upstart social commerce success, some free wifi news, and a fascinating infographic on the rise of the Chinese language on the...
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7 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, China, and Singapore. For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with these...
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Meeting Startup Founders in Depok, Indonesia
Last Saturday, a couple of us headed south of Jakarta to visit the city of Depok, which takes about an hour to two to reach by car from the heart of the capital. Why Depok? We had already heard so...
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Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd Joins Sina Weibo
Over the past few weeks we have noted how more individuals and companies are flocking to Chinese microblogs in an effort to reach out to Chinese people. The premier of Victoria Australia Ted Baillieu...
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China Railway Ministry Site Accused of Cheating on Ticket Sales
If you’re riding a Chinese sleeper train, you should know that not all bunks are created equal. The top bunk? That’s for chumps. It’s difficult to get to, gets super hot at night, and there’s not...
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Duowan Acquires 3D Gaming Platform Startup
The Beijing-based 3D gaming platform E-City Sky has been acquired by the major Chinese gaming portal Duowan. That’s according to Clement Song, co-founder and CEO of the four-year old startup – but it...
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Giant Interactive’s Long Journey 2S Beta Breaks 500,000 Players Online At Once
The Long Journey series has been one of China’s most popular MMORPGs for some time. The most recent game, Long Journey 2 has been no exception, and now an updated version of Giant Interactive’s...
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Rumor: Baidu and Other Search Engines Will Have to Stop Indexing Weibo Content
Chinese web researcher Hu Yanping has indicated there are rumors that authorities will ban Chinese search engines such as Baidu from indexing real-time search results from the country’s Twitter-like...
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Sina Weibo Launches Location Platform ‘Weibo Places’
My location....or not. In a move that, in retrospect, we’re surprised didn’t happen way sooner, Sina Weibo launched a new location service today. It’s called Weibo Places and it collects anything...
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LG Launches Second-Gen Optimus 3D Max Smartphone in Europe
Korean manufacturer LG (066570:KS) has announced today that is is starting the global roll-out of its second-generation 3D smartphone, the Optimus 3D Max. The handset was first seen at Mobile World...
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China’s Biggest B2C E-Commerce Site, Tmall, Finally Gets an iPhone App
China’s leading B2C e-commerce site, Tmall, now has a brand-new iPhone app, which launched earlier today. If the app’s arrival seems surprisingly late, it’s likely because the e-tailer used to be...
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Chocoarts Targets Football Fans in Indonesia, Launches Jago Kabo For Nokia S40
Indonesia-based Chocoarts has launched its long awaited mobile football game yesterday. The game, titled Jago Kabo, is built for Persikabo (Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Kabupaten Bogor), a club...
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Youku Makes Deal with CBS for Two Seasons of ‘Survivor’ & ‘America’s Next Top...
Chinese video streaming Youku.com has just announced that it has signed an exclusive content deal with CBS Studios International for the television shows Survivor and America’s Next Top Model. The...
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Alibaba.com Shareholders Urged to Vote ‘Yes’ as Privatization Plan Advances
Alibaba.com, the B2B e-commerce site that’s the only part of the Alibaba Group to have publicly listed, is a step closer today to going back to being privately-held. An Independent Board Committee...
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Agate Studio Launches Bubble Puzzle Game Blob Blob Battle
Remember those bubble puzzle games back in the PlayStation era? Now you can play on the web. Brought to you by Agate Studio, Blob Blob Battle has launched on Viwawa.com. So far it has gained lots of...
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Windows 8 Boot Camp Held in Indonesia, Produces Dozens of Applications
Hosted in Bandung, the Windows 8 Boot Camp by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) a few weeks back produced no less than 44 applications for Windows 8. All of the applications, which were made by top Indonesian...
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Sohu, Tencent, Qiyi to Team Up and Buy Video Rights Together?
Having the rights to stream the most popular shows is hugely important to any streaming video site in China. Unfortunately, getting those rights is expensive, especially if you’re one of the smaller...
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comScore: 1 in 5 Mobile Users in Japan Owns a Smartphone
Research firm comScore Japan KK released figures today that say that one out of every five mobile users in Japan now owns a smartphone. And what’s more, they claim that among newly acquired mobile...
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Buykee Makes Pinterest Look Cheap, Launches a Luxury Brand Social Commerce Site
China’s already lively online shopping industry has a new challenger this week in the form of the luxury brand-oriented social commerce site Buykee. Newly launched out of a beta testing period, the...
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Singapore Gets First Microsoft Technology Centre in SE Asia, Opens Today
One Marina Boulevard, in which is Singapore's new Microsoft Technology Centre. (Image is 'Creative Commons' from Wikimedia). Today Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has opened the doors on its first-ever...
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