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6 Tips When Meeting Investors at a Conference
As our Startup Asia Jakarta and Founders and Investors meetup draws closer, I’ve received a lot of emails from entrepreneurs asking about engaging with investors. After speaking to many investors on...
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China Telecom: 60 Million Users In Our App Store, More WP7 Stuff Coming
The China Telecom E-Surfing app store on my phone today. Note the two Angry Birds clone games that are featured! All three of China’s mobile telcos have their own app stores, offering up – and...
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Google Notifies Chinese Users of Blocked Search Terms, But Does it Matter?
Earlier today, Google announced that it had begun offering a service on google.com.hk that highlights and warns mainland Chinese users of search terms that are likely to result in a failed connection...
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Bentley Asks China’s Weibo Users: Is Our SUV Hot or Not?
Bentley's EXPLab app on Sina Weibo today. Whether legendary British automaker Bentley decides to make its first ever SUV could rest in the hands – or mouse-clicks – of Chinese social media users....
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Japan’s SnapDish Now Available Worldwide for Android
We’ve been keeping an eye on Japanese photo-app startup SnapDish (www.snapdi.sh) for some time now. The food photography service has been popular on iOS, but up until now, Android users haven’t been...
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Tencent’s Group Messaging App WeChat Talks Its Way Into India
As if 100 million users isn’t enough for the world’s biggest group messaging app, now Tencent (HKG:0700) is pushing its WeChat into India thanks to a promotional deal with Indian gaming site Ibibo....
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Student Sets Off Firecrackers to Protest Crappy Internet Connection
We’ve all felt the frustration of a bad internet connection from time to time. But when the internet on one part of campus at a college in Dongguan began to malfunction, dropping the connection every...
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Create and Share Photo Stories with Mooklet
We’ve written quite a bit about Japanese photo sharing apps recently. And I’ve just had an opportunity to preview another interesting one, although its primary focus is not on photo taking (although...
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Japan’s GREE Gears Up For E3, After a Shaky Month at Home
GREE, Tokyo Game Show Our readers may recall that last year’s Tokyo Game Show was a coming out party of sorts for GREE (TYO:3632), as the company turned more than a few heads with its gigantic floor...
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Samsung Releases Samsung Galaxy S3 in Indonesia, 800 Sold in Six Hours
As promised, Samsung (005930:KS) Indonesia officially started selling the Galaxy S3 starting today. Central Park Mall Jakarta chosen as the venue to sell the S3 to the public for the first time. Some...
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Indonesia Twitter Trends in May: Lady Gaga and National Education Day
Photo: euronews.com Indonesia’s Twitter timeline in May was filled with various topics and themes. But the National Education Day on May 2nd as well as Lady Gaga were the top trends last month....
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TouchTen’s iOS Game Infinite Sky Poised to Fly High
TouchTen, an Indonesia-based game development studio, has released its newest title Infinite Sky. It was first released in the App Store with no price tag for a week starting 25th May, but it started...
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6 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week, we saw the Chinese web scene ripple with shock as Google snubbed Net Nanny, had a laugh at the ingenuity of pirates of Diablo 3, and ruminated on Sina Weibo’s new carrot-and-stick policy to...
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5 Asian Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week
As we gear up for our Startup Asia Jakarta this week in Indonesia, we’ve been keeping an eye on startup news elsewhere in Asia as well. This past week we had some fascinating apps from China, Japan,...
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Harvard Business Review on 3 Pitfalls Startup Founders Must Avoid
Harvard Business School professor, Noam Wasserman did some research that surfaces pitfalls on why startups fail. He shared three pointers, which he coined it the three Rs: Relationship decisions Roles...
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Multiply Finally Receives Credit Card Payment in Indonesia
Multiply officially announced that it’s now able to receive payment using credit cards in Indonesia. The social commerce platform previously only offered payment methods like bank transfer, ATM, and...
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Wujudkan is Kickstarter For Indonesian’s Creative Industry
Wujudkan is a startup that focuses on crowdfunding for Indonesia’s creative industry. It was co-founded by four people: Mandy Marahimin, Zaki Jaihutan, Dondi Hananto, and Wicak Soegijoko. Graduated...
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Croak.It Wants To Be The Voice of the Web
Voice messaging is pretty common nowadays. Chat apps like WeChat and Whatsapp have their own voice messaging feature. There’s also Talkbox that works like WeChat but focuses primarily on voice. And...
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Sina Censors Candles and Clocks for June 4th Anniversary
Today is June 4th, the anniversary of the government’s violent crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters. It’s a sensitive day in China (netizens have jokingly termed it “internet maintenance day”) and...
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New Details About Wii U from Nintendo Just Before E3
Photo: pcmag.com In a pre-E3 announcement, Nintendo (TYO:7974) has unveiled some new details about its upcoming Wii U game system. The company has been struggling of late, with mobile and social gaming...
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