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Camera360 Startup Clicks With Investors, Gets Nearly $10 Million in Funding
The Chinese startup behind the popular photographic app Camera360 has secured nearly US$10 million in series A funding, led by Singapore-based Gobi Partners and US-based Matrix Partners. The team...
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Casual Reviews: Rollercoaster Creator
Not everyone likes rollercoasters, but who doesn’t like games that let you build them? There’s something about building an insane track and watching tiny virtual people whip around the screen that I...
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Nadiem Makarim Talks About Zalora Indonesia and Go-jek
There have been concerns about Zalora’s general performance since it launched. And the news of Nadiem Makarim, managing director at Zalora Indonesia, resigning from the company didn’t come at a great...
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Pitapat, Now a CyberAgent Subsidiary, Helps You Find Your Match on Facebook
Japanese online entertainment company CyberAgent (TYO:4751) has announced today that it has made Facematch Inc. a subsidiary, and that the service will be renamed – effective today – to be called...
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GREE Announces ‘Dino Life,’ the First Android Title from its North American...
This morning we mentioned that GREE (TYO:3632) had announced a couple of new game developer partnerships in CrowdStar and iWin. And now this evening the company is announcing a brand new title from...
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Japan’s GREE Acquires Social Game Dev Funzio for $210 Million
It has been a big couple of days for GREE (TYO:3632) already with a couple of game dev partnerships yesterday, as well as the first Android title for its North American studio. But the company just...
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Happybox Aims To Disrupt Gifting industry, Pivots From Gastro Couture
Some of you guys might recall Gastro Couture, a startup which aimed to help restaurant owners fill up empty tables by providing discounts for folks who reserve spare tables online. The startup has...
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Adways and YetiZen Partner to Help Game Developers in Asian Markets
Tokyo-based advertising network and game publisher Adways (TYO:2489) has announced the establishment of a US subsidiary, and a capital partnership with YetiZen, a game development studio and gaming...
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Sohu Video’s Alliance with Qiyi and Tencent May Be Unstable
Sohu’s (NASDAQ:SOHU) video offerings have been in the news quite a bit recently, as Sohu teamed up with Baidu’s Qiyi and Tencent’s video products to create an alliance that would purchase content...
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Nonprofit Microfinance Platform Wokai to Close
Microfinance platform Wokai announced today via an email to contributors and a public letter on its official site that the non-profit company is “starting the process of winding down Wokai and...
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US Report: 99% of Music Downloads in China Are Pirated, Video Sites a Concern...
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released a report highlighting areas of concern where intellectual property rights – or, loosely, copyright – infringements “unfairly...
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Sina’s Softer Censorship: A Case Study of Search Smothering
Search results for 'left of his own volition' on Sina Weibo This afternoon, the blind lawyer/dissident Chen Guangcheng left the US Embassy, where he had sought refuge after escaping illegal detention...
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Beepmo Mobile App to Provide Professional Networking Service for Next Bank...
Back in February we told you about Beepmo, which at the time had just launched in public beta. The mobile service is billed as an Asia-focused location-based social network which targets...
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iamtrend: Taking Social Interest Groups Beyond Language Barriers
I’m a fan of alternative music. But to share that passion, I’m effectively limited in most social media to communicating with those who speak the same language as me. But the Thai startup iamtrend.com...
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Hugvie Brings the Sense of Touch to Mobile Communication
Last weekend I had a chance to visit the Vstone store in Akihabara, where Osaka University roboticist/professor Hiroshi Ishiguro has his wonderful new Hugvie on display. The device is essentially a...
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How To Win at Startup Arena
Shivanu is the co-Founder and CEO of Teamie, a social learning platform that aims to make learning more collaborative and fun. Shivanu and his team are now working hard to make Teamie a global leader...
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Accor Localizes its Booking Site in Indonesia
Accor has localized its online reservations platform – Accorhotels.com – into Bahasa Indonesian. Its target is to have 40 percent of its global bookings coming from the country by 2015. This is a part...
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China’s MIIT: Telecom Investment Up 10 Percent in 2012
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Shang Bing said yesterday that projected investment in the telecom industry this year would reach 370 billion RMB ($59 billion), up 10 percent from...
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Beijing Subway Launches Weibo Account
I wonder what kind of identification a subway system has to present to Sina in order to pass real-name registration. Whatever is needed, Beijing’s subway system has apparently provided it and...
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From Silicon Valley to Asia [#StartupAsia Preview]
This picture has nothing to do with Thomas. But I thought these eyes could be useful when talking to investors. The fusion between web technology and entrepreneur arguably originates from the West. In...
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