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Blizzard’s Mists of Pandaria Begins Beta in China; Netease to Turn Down...
Today brings a plethora of Blizzard-related China gaming news. First up, the China-focused World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria apparently entered a very limited closed beta in China. If that...
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Meituan Reveals $50 Million+ in Monthly Transactions After Being Accused of...
A local newspaper in China recently accused Meituan, the country’s largest daily deals site, of fraudulently inflating its transaction volume figure by a factor of three. That has prompted Meituan’s...
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Sina Weibo Upgrades Notification System to Allow App Blocking
Sina today announced an update that, while minor, is sure to be a welcome change to anyone who uses a lot of apps on its Sina Weibo microblogging service. Prior to now, official Sina notifications and...
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Zing! Haier Unveils Its Budget Aliyun-Powered Smartphone
Alibaba has ganged up with gadget manufacturer Haier (SHA:600690; HKG:1169) to deliver a zinger: a budget Aliyun OS phone called the Haier Zing. Launched today at an event in Beijing, it is – as we...
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NHN’s Line App Passes 40 Million Users in 1 Year, Looks to Grow as Platform
Line, 40 million users (click to enlarge) NHN Japan has announced today that it has passed yet another impressive user milestone, now with 40 million users worldwide. The popular VoIP calling and...
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Emergency Mobile Phone ‘SpareOne’ Runs for 10 Hours on Single AA Battery
A subsidiary of Taiwan-based TennRich has developed an emergency mobile phone called the SpareOne (see SpareOne.com) for use in emergencies and natural disasters. It provides 10 hours of talk time on a...
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Rudy Ramawy: Google’s Big Plans for Indonesia [LIVEBLOG]
For our very first coffee chat at our Startup Asia Jakarta event, we welcome onto the stage Google’s new country head for Indonesia, Rudy Ramawy (pictured above, on the left), to be interviewed by our...
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Startup Asia Coffee Chat: Tencent’s Plan in Indonesia
To bring a little China into our Startup Asia Jakarta event, Willis Wee took the stage to pose some questions to Suyang Zhang, Tencent’s regional director of global mobile. “Why are you in Indonesia?”...
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Didi Nugrahadi of Detik.com, SalingSilang on Entrepreneurship in Indonesia...
Didi Nugrahadi (right) As one of the early morning sessions for our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 event on Thursday morning, Joshua Kevin interviewed Didi Nugrahadi of Detik.com and SalingSilang. #10:45:...
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Discussion: Startup Communities in Indonesia [LIVEBLOG]
From left to right: Fahary, Brian, Amar, Reza, Natali. The moderator is our own blogger, Josh. After a couple of ‘coffee chats’ here at our Startup Asia Jakarta event, it’s time for the first...
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Overseas Investors talk about the Indonesian Market [Live Blog]
As the final panel for the morning at Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 saw moderator Vanessa Tan asking a group of overseas investors about their experiences and thoughts on the Indonesian market. Panelists...
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Tencent’s Popular WeChat App Making Progress in Thailand
Tencent’s (HKG:0700) chatting app WeChat, which went global just a few months ago, has gained particular traction in Southeast Asia, especially in Vietnam and Thailand. The Chinese internet...
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Coffee Chat: Building Startups From Silicon Valley to Asia
What’s the difference between doing a startup in Silicon Valley and in Asia? Tom Clayton, the CEO and Founder of Bubble Motion, took the stage with Willis Wee at Startup Asia Jakarta this afternoon to...
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From Zero to Millions in Revenue, a Chat with the Founders of Adstars [Live...
In the afternoon session for our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 event, we were delighted to hear from Yazid Faizin and Pandu Wirawan, the founders of mobile and web ad network Adstars. They were...
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Discussion: Cloud Deployment, Security, for Startups in Indonesia
App engines, cloud power, server architecture. All familiar – and expensive – challenges facing startups. To give advice, and debate how Indonesian entrepreneurs best approach the cloud for the apps...
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Harpoen Officially Launches at Startup Arena
Picture this: Leaving digital messages at places you have physically visited before, telling stories, and engaging in future conversations with people who would eventually visit them. Harpoen does just...
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Nepal-based Grepsr Targets Businesses with its Web Crawling Service
At our Startup Arena Jakarta competition today, Nepal-based startup Grepsr pitched their data extraction and web crawling service. This concept is really great, as it enables any individual or...
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Gobann Aims to Make Moonlighting in Indonesia Quick and Easy
Finding work can be a big problem in Indonesia. It’s a huge country that’s plagued by unemployment and overeducation; the typical toll booth worker in Indonesia holds an undergraduate degree. So says...
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Philippines Startup Wants to be Your Company’s Payroll Hero
Philippines-based Payroll Hero pitched at our Startup Arena Jakarta competition this afternoon, aiming to ‘optimize work productivity with happiness.’ Steve Jagger and Mike Stephenson previously...
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BibbyCam Brings Photo Filter Fun to BlackBerry Users
Regular readers – as well as BlackBerry users – might be familiar with BibbyCam, the Indonesian-made photo filter app whose husband-wife team we interviewed earlier this year. And now the duo, Grace...
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