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OldSchooled Wants Words of Wisdom From Old Folks
OldSchooled.org is a fun project hitting the interwebs from Singapore that is asking users to submit worlds of wisdom from the older generation, so that it can be collected and displayed online for...
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China’s Redbaby Grows Up, Finds Growing Pains in B2C E-Commerce
A senior executive at one of China’s leading specialist B2C e-commerce sites has admitted that his site’s growth has stalled – and the market is so tough that it’s not clear how any such sites can...
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Health 2.0 ScolioTrack App Hits 80,000 Downloads, Now in Chinese, Japanese
If the iPhone can be used to measure length and gradients, it can also be used to track the progression of scoliosis, an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine. We previously told you about the...
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LiveShare Launches First International Version in Japan
We’ve been keeping tabs on CoolIris’s LiveShare photo sharing app for web and mobile, and we’re happy to hear today that its first international version has been launched in Japan. Android users in...
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HTC, 360Buy Execs Honored on CCTV Award List
Liu accepts his award; image via Sina Finance Each year, CCTV — China’s state-owned television conglomerate — announces awards honoring successful businessmen and economic contributors for their...
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Google Archives Japan’s Disaster Zones on Street View
Google's Memories for the Future site After initially announcing its plans back in July to digitally archive the devastation from the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has finally made...
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Apple Rates Qunar’s Mobile Effort As Best Chinese-Made Travel App
Qunar, the online travel site which attracted over US$300 million of investment from Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) earlier this year, has proved to be the best Chinese travel app on iOS (pictured above)...
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Increased E-commerce Sales Putting Big Pressure on Delivery Companies
via TechWeb China has been experiencing impressive growth in the e-commerce sector, and that growth has also been a windfall of sorts for Chinese delivery companies, who are delivering more packages...
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Baidu Japan Acquires Simeiji Mobile App Team, For Added Japanese Typing Fun
The Japanese subsidiary of Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), the Chinese search engine giant, has acquired the small startup team behind the Simeiji input method editor (IME) app for Android. The free app has been...
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China’s Top 50 Brands List Features 14 Tech Giants
(Image source: Millward Brown's latest BrandZ report) The market research firm Millward Brown has just released the 2012 edition of its ‘BrandZ most valuable Chinese brands top 50’ report. It sees more...
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Chinese Advocacy Groups Say Many Group Buy Sites Violate Consumers Rights
According to the Beijing News, yesterday consumer advocacy groups in twenty-one cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Macau and Hong Kong, released the results of a survey of group buy...
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How Many Downloads Does Your App Need to Top Apple’s Charts?
Research firm Distimo has been looking into regional differences in the amount of downloads required to reach the Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) top 10, top 25, and top 50 in each area. They looked at a...
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Meizu’s New Hong Kong Store Looks Ready for Upcoming Meizu MX Launch
This is going to be a big month for the Chinese gadget manufacturer Meizu as it opens a flagship Hong Kong store in time for the launch of its dual-core Meizu MX phone on January 1st. And it all seems...
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Why CyberAgent Ventures Chose Indonesia? Takahiro Suzuki Answers
Takahiro Suzuki, General Manager of CyberAgent Ventures Jakarta office Most venture capital firms would usually establish a Southeast Asia (SEA) fund in Singapore because of its stability and strong...
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“Siri for Android” Nears 1 Million Downloads
If you’re an Android user who envies Siri on iOS5, worry not, you have Iris to play with. Iris, or Siri spelled backwards, spits out information based on voice recognition. It is built on top of...
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New Accelerator Focuses on India, Aims to Work with US Talent
The India Internet Group (IIG) is a new startup accelerator which is announcing its public launch today. It will target startups that focus on solving problems in India, but in order to do that it...
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The Year in Sina Weibo Topics: Will Weibo Stay Political?
Sina weibo yearly retrospective As the year draws to a close, people are beginning the retrospectives and looks back that will soon cover the entire internet like a big, boring blanket. Sina...
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LinkedIn Advises Users to Banish CV Buzzwords – Here’s Your Top 10, Singapore...
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Motivated. Dynamic. Innovative. Three much-used – indeed, overused – adjectives on many...
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LG Introduces Optimus LTE in Japan
We had a preview of LG’s Optimus LTE phone back in October at the unveiling of Docomo’s (NYSE:DCM) winter lineup. And today LG (003550:KS) is officially launching it in Japan, as we’ve received a...
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Has Google Dropped to Third Place in China? [STATS]
New data from web analytics company CNZZ suggests that Google (NASQAQ:GOOG) is now in third place in China in terms of search engine traffic – pushed down by the rise of Sohu’s (NASDAQ:SOHU)...
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