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Juwai: Real Estate Listings for China’s Buying Spree of Overseas Property
“Mainland Chinese property buyers spent US$28.7 billion on residential property around the world in 2011, generating over $900 million in commission for professional property sellers.” So says the...
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InMobi Says Mobile Now Top Media Channel in Vietnam [INFOGRAPHIC]
We have some interesting insights today about the Vietnam mobile market from mobile advertising network InMobi. The company says that the mobile advertising market in that country grew 121 percent in...
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Buying and Selling on ShopSpot App As Easy As 123
According to research firm eMarketer, mobile commerce (m-commerce) is expected to hit US$31 billion in 2015, and with the increasing number of smartphone users and greater ease of mobile shopping,...
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Major Crackdown Reveals Secrets of China’s Black Market in Stolen Personal Data
It’s no secret that the personal information of millions of Chinese citizens is stolen, shared, and sold online. But working in the stolen personal information business got a bit harder last week, when...
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Be a Thirsty and Hungry Hippo
Click to enlarge. (Image credit: quotesbuddy.com). [Disclosure: The writer is herself a student at NUS]. There has been a lot of debate about Alvin’s admission to the National University of Singapore...
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Suning’s Online Flights and Hotel Booking Service Ready for Take-Off
China’s top travel websites are about to get a shock as China’s vast bricks-and-mortar retailer Suning (SHE:002024) is set to launch an online travel portal, selling flight tickets and hotel...
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Chalkboard Closes Shop, Ends Its Startup Journey
Founded by Saumil Nanavanti and Bernard Leong, Chalkboard was in my opinion one of the more promising startups in Singapore. But news about them closing shop hit me hard yesterday. The Chalkboard...
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Baidu Maps Brings Free Voice Navigation for Drivers in Android App Update
Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has today updated its mobile Baidu Maps app for Android and added free voice navigation for drivers. The new feature – packed into the newly-released v3.0 of...
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Two New Virtual Shops Open in Japan Using Panoplaza
Some of you may recall back at our Startup Asia event event in February, we had a glimpse at a fascinating virtual store service called Panoplaza. It specialized in providing panoramic views of...
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A Memo To Entrepreneurs: Fight Hard With No Regrets
So recently a startup folded. And seriously it scared the shit out of me. I know startups tend to fail. But seeing someone close to me folding their business did strike me hard in the heart. It’s like...
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People’s Daily Online IPO Hits Shanghai, Selling Like Hot Dumplings
People's Daily Online shares on its opening morning, up to time of publishing at 11:30am. People’s Daily Online, the news website that’s the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece on the web, has listed...
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‘My Country’ Mobile Game Comes to China, Virtual Construction Sites Now Opening
China’s Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME) has just launched its first-ever mobile gaming title called My Country. It’s a city building game, so far only on Android in Shanda’s Chinese release, which allows...
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The Creative Finder Adds Embed Function, Suddenly Becomes Great Image Source...
Last month we told you about Singapore-based DesignTAXI and its new portfolio site The Creative Finder which gives designers, photographers, and illustrators a place online to show off their works....
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How to Post to Twitter via SMS in China
I’m a bit of a Twitter addict, I’ll admit it. And because I occasionally do some crazy things in my personal life, I like the idea of being able to post to Twitter easily from anywhere in China,...
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Ideosource Invests in Singaporean Edutainment Startup
Jakarta-based incubator IdeoSource has made an investment in Kark Mobile Education, a Singaporean startup whose “edutainment” tablet platform has yet to even launch. The startup’s product, which will...
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Japan’s Bitcellar Raises $5 Million for Recently Acquired Photo App FxCamera
A few weeks back we told you about the Android photo app from Japan called FxCamera, which at the time had been acquired by Japanese web company Bitcellar. Now today we’ve received word from that...
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New China 3G User Stats Suggest China Unicom Might Dominate By Next Year
New 3G subscriber stats for China’s two largest mobile carriers show that China Unicom (NYSE:CHU; HKG:0762) is still making good progress, hitting a new milestone in its pursuit of China Mobile...
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Eedoo iSec is Now Called the CT510, To Be Released Next Week
Well, no one can say that the folks over at Eedoo don’t like a good surprise. Last we heard, the eedoo iSec — eedoo’s motion-sensing video game console — was being delayed again and wasn’t likely to...
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Game Ventures’ Howzat Hits 1 Million Active Gamers, Shares Some Secret Sauce
Today Zaki Mahomed, founder of Game Ventures, shared a graph on his Facebook showing that Howzat, a Facebook Cricket sport game, had crossed the one million active users mark. The screenshot graph...
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APMF 2012 to Hold ‘Big Break Session’ For Startups
The Association of Asia Pacific Advertising Media (AAPAM) will hold what it has dubbed its “Big Break Session” for startups for during the Asia Pacific Media Forum (APMF) 2012 event. The session will...
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