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Stilomo and Ifetcha Raise Angel Funding, Both Launching Soon
Stilomo and Ifetcha have both successfully raised funding from angel investors. There hasn’t been a figure attached to the investments, but from what I’ve heard from the founders it is enough for them...
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9 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, Thailand, and Singapore. For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with...
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Nikkei Business Publications to Hold Game Networking Jakarta
Nikkei BP (Nikkei Business Publications) is going to hold Game Networking Jakarta on May 28 at the Grand Hyatt Jakarta Ballroom. Nikkei BP, also the organizer of the annual Tokyo Game Show, said the...
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9 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Lots of things happening in China this week, especially with many of the big internet players. We saw one big name move to go private, while another biggie went public. Google Drive launched, but...
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A Decade of Game Console Sales in Japan [CHART]
Japanese gaming giant Nintendo (TYO:7974) reported its first loss in 30 years last week, with sales of its major consoles around the world slipping, contributing to a loss of $534.6 million. Similarly,...
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Female Daily: Founded By Female Entrepreneurs Especially For Females
The Indonesian community website Femaledaily.com has quite an interesting story behind it. It first began in 2007 as Fashionesedaily.com by Hanifa Ambadar and Affi Assegaf. Connected by their common...
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Sina Admits to Investors It Has Failed to Implement Real Name Policy on Weibo
Sina (NASDAQ:SINA), which runs the popular Twitter-like Weibo.com, has publicly admitted that it has not fully implemented the government-mandated ‘real name’ registration for such microblog services....
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Details Emerge on Youku-Tudou Merger
Last week, SEC filings from Youku finally shed some light on how exactly the Youku-Tudou merger went down. You can read the filings for yourself here if you’d like — background on the merger starts on...
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Survey Suggests Taiwan Prefers Mobile Media Over TV
The folks over at mobile advertising network InMobi have conducted a survey [1] into how people in Taiwan are using mobile devices, and how their habits are changing. Much like we saw with the...
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Focusing on Mobile and Local Discounts, DDMap Bags $40 Million in Funding
Chinese online city listings company DDMap has today revealed a new and sizable round of funding. CEO Xu Longjiang, talking to Chinese media, said the financing was worth US$40 million and was led by...
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Did Google Drive Copy its Icon From a Chinese App?
Chinese startups and apps often get a lot of flack – including from us – for cloning and copying, and generally coming up with ideas that seem strikingly similar to what has been done before. But that...
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Flockworks for iPad: Yo Dawg, I Herd You Lost Your Sheep
Flockwork is the latest game from Shanghai-based ReignDesign, designed for play on the iPad. The dynamics of the game are a little tricky to explain. But to put it simply, you are tasked with caring...
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ShopSpot Raises Angel Funding
ShopSpot, which was covered by my colleague Vanessa last week, has received seed funding from a group of angels and business entrepreneurs in Thailand, led by Kris Nalamlieng for an undisclosed sum....
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China’s CT510 Game Console Launched, But Still Looks Like Vaporware
I have written quite a lot about the eedoo CT510, formerly known as the iSec. The idea of a Chinese game console has always interested me as a longtime console gamer who lives in China, but I’ve been...
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Japan’s Price Comparison Site, Kakaku, Opens Section for Android Apps
I’ve been a fan of Japanese price-comparison engine Kakaku.com (TYO:2371) for a long time. For nearly every major purchase I make, I check out a comparison of various retailers’ prices over on Kakaku....
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InMobi Sees iOS Falling in Hong Kong, Android Invading [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Mobile ad platform InMobi has been busy these past few days crunching ad impressions stats...
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Japan’s GREE Partners with Social Game Developers CrowdStar and iWin
Japanese mobile social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) has announced partnerships with a pair of prominent social game developers, in CrowdStar and iWin. According to the announcement, the partnership...
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China and India Have Most Mobile Subscribers, But Account for Lower...
Japan is second in global mobile revenue, despite not having nearly the amount of subscribers as China or India Mobile market analyst extraordinaire Chetan Sharma has just published his annual State of...
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Essential Apps for Travel in China
Today is May 1, a national holiday in China, and everyone is out and about, seeing the sights and traveling to new places. But getting around new places is much easier with the help of mobile apps, and...
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Rumor: Groupon in China to be Acquired by FTuan, Sold Out by Its...
Groupon’s (NASDAQ:GRPN) daily deals site for China, Gaopeng, which is run as a joint-venture with Tencent (HKG:0700), looks like it is a pawn in the upcoming restructuring of Tencent’s group buy...
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