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Apple Highlights New Chinese Features in WWDC Keynote
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) WWDC keynote in San Francisco brought a number of new developments, but there were a few that will be particularly interesting for users in China. The most notable update perhaps...
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DateIITians is an Indian Dating Startup Looking to Go Global
Facebook’s slow transition from a very focused and elite demographic to a broad one proved that there’s some wisdom in going after nerdy college students first when you’re building a social network....
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Weibo Shows You Your Six Degrees of Separation, Kevin Bacon Not Included
Sina Weibo has a fun new experimental feature called ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ [1] which will show you your tenuous relationship with any other user of the popular microblog service. Named after the...
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My First MobileMonday Jakarta Experience…
… was awesome. While the rest of the Tech in Asia boys such as Willis and Minghao have been in Jakarta for the last couple of months in preparation for our Startup Asia Jakarta event, this trip is my...
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Tigris Capital and Spring Seeds Capital Invest in Luxe Nomad
At the Echelon 2012 conference yesterday, Tigris Capital and Spring Seeds Capital announced their investment in Luxe Nomad, a Singapore-based luxury travel startup. The concept works like many VIP,...
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Here’s Apple’s Siri Speaking Chinese [Screenshots & Video]
Apple’s voice assistant Siri now speaks Chinese, which is quite a feat. It’s one of many new China-oriented features that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) unveiled yesterday. The update to Siri requires the latest...
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NTT Docomo Says its LTE Subscribers have Topped 3 Million
NTT Docomo is announcing today that its total amount of subscribers to its LTE Xi service surpassed the 3 million user mark on June 8th. Readers may recall that it was only back in March when the...
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Hudong, China’s Wikipedia, Raises $50 Million in Funding
Hudong is China’s massive, crowd-sourced encyclopedic wiki – with 6.4 million articles to date – which is run as a for-profit company. And now it has more cash to play with after raising $50 million...
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Ru-Net Invests in Freecultr and BeStylish in India
Ru-Net isn’t just active in Southeast Asia but in India as well. The Russian-based venture capital has recently invested in BeStylish and FreeCultr. Both are e-commerce companies. BeStylish claims to...
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The Creative Finder Portfolio Service Growing Strong, Adds New ‘Fave’ Feature
When we last heard about portfolio web service The Creative Finder, from Design Taxi, it was rolling out a new embed function that allowed hosted images to be displayed on external sites with links...
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MobileMonday China Mobile Startup Competition: Applications Now Open! [UPDATED]
The MobileMonday series is probably one of the best platforms to connect with the local communities in any major city, especially when you are a mobile-centric startup and new to the tech startup...
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MadeiraCloud Now Allows You to Share Cloud Applications by Email
We wrote about MadeiraCloud two months back. It’s a visual integrated management environment (VIME) which allows users to design, build, and manage their application. Recently, it has announced that it...
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Su casa es mi casa: Rakuten Acquires Spanish Online Video Service Wuaki.tv
Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten (JSD:4755) announced today that it has acquired Spanish online video service, Wuaki.tv. This deal came as a bit of a surprise to us, as the online video business...
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Smart TVs Most Popular in China, Japan in 2012
According to NPD DisplaySearch, Sony was a leading smart TV brand in Q1 A new report from the folks over at NPD DisplaySearch says that 27 percent of all televisions shipped in Q1 2012 had some...
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Eyeland is a Location Messaging App with 500,000 Users in Japan
Eyeland (www.eyeland.in) is an app that allows users to leave their comments and messages at a specific location, where other users can then read read and follow nearby news. The app describes itself...
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Japan’s GREE, DeNA Monetize Far Better Than Zynga [Report]
Thanks to Serkan Toto on Twitter for pointing out this piece by The Wall Street Journal on Japanese mobile social gaming companies GREE (TYO:3632) and DeNA (TYO:2432). I encourage you to click over and...
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200 Developers Made 32 Applications at Startup Asia Jakarta Hackathon
Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 was different compared to our Startup Asia Singapore, especially as we hosted a Hackathon this time. The 24-hour event had around 200 developers in attendance, and 32 Android...
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Amid Food Safety Crisis, China’s Biggest E-Commerce Site Goes Organic
Tainted milk; dangerous additives fed to pigs; pork dipped in chemicals to make it seem fresher; contaminated baby’s milk powder; fake milk powder; fake alcohol; soy sauce made from human hair; ‘sudan...
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Fuji Xerox Continues to Assist with Post-Disaster Document Recovery in Japan
Photo: cnmeonline.com According to a report from PC World, Japan’s Fuji Xerox has sent a team of 259 employees to Ishinomaki in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture to help digitize an estimated 7,000 to 10,000...
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DS Anatomy Delivers New 3D Models of Muscles and Bones on the iPad
Here’s a great iPad app from the folks over at Digital Solution in Japan. It’s called DS Anatomy and it provides a 3D digital model of the head and neck musculoskeletal system which can be easily...
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