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Infocomm Investments Joins Twilio Recent Funding Round
Twilio is a US-based startup that specializes in providing cloud communications to clients, such as call automation, tracking, SMS — all without the hassle of maintaining any hardware. Ostensibly,...
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Asia Joins Domain Party: GREE Wants .GREE, Sina and Tencent Both Want .WEIBO
As many of you may have heard by now, ICANN revealed the list of generic top level domain names that companies all around the world have applied for. I thought we’d take a look at some of the names...
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Android Users: Backup Your Contacts Using Z1
iPhone and Mac users usually have their contacts all synced with their Address Book app. And for Android users you can use Google sync to sort out your Google Contacts, for sure – but that neglects...
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Microsoft Confirms Sina Weibo Integration in Windows 8
A Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) employee has confirmed in a company blog that Sina Weibo, the popular Twitter-like social network, will be fully integrated into the upcoming Windows 8 final release. The...
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Ahead of India’s E-Commerce Boom, MyGrahak Hopes to Raise $3.5 Million This Year
It’s still early days in the Indian e-commerce scene – despite the emergence of Flipkart – and so now is the time to invest and expand. And today, India’s top food-oriented e-tailer MyGrahak has...
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YouTube Launches Localized Site For Indonesia
After Singapore and Malaysia received their localized YouTube sites, we knew that soon enough it would be Indonesia’s turn. Today it has happened, with YouTube Indonesia launching at YouTube.co.id....
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Korea to Ban Online Game Items Trading?
Diablo 3 Gold farmer in action. Image credit: JustD3 A report from Korea Times says that online game items trading will be banned. The reason? The Korean government stated that trading online gaming...
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Harvard Report Suggests China’s Censorship Not Aimed at Suppressing Criticism...
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the new China censorship report from researchers at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, I highly recommend you do so. Entitled How Censorship...
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Mediba Partners with MCN Asia for Thailand Expansion
Japanese mobile ad company Mediba tells us that it has entered into a strategic partnership with mobile search and ad solutions company MCN in an effort to build its business in Thailand. Readers may...
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Takara Tomy Delivers Another Addition to Japan’s Growing Robot Dog Army
Photo: robots-dreams.com Readers may recall a few months back when we wrote about Bandai’s Smartpet robot dog, which used an iPhone as its artificial brain. Well, apparently there’s a high demand for...
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Japanese Collaborative Diagram Service Cacoo Hits 500,000 Users
Japanese startup, Cacoo, the online diagram and wire-frame creator, has surpassed 500,000 users recently. We have been tracking and using Cacoo for more than a year ourselves, so we’re happy to see it...
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VIPShop and Coo8 Say: Screw It, We’ll Deliver It Ourselves
Earlier this month we looked into the reasons behind two of China’s top e-commerce sites opting to deliver their own merchandise, subverting the fractured private delivery system that has been in...
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Rumor: Baidu in Talks to Acquire Makers of UC Browser
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a web company in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a mobile strategy. And so there’s a ring of plausibility to new rumors in the Chinese media...
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Get in LINE for Games
Japan’s popular messaging app Line could well become a social platform for mobile games. That’s highly possible, considering that Sina Weibo’s app which has already integrated games smoothly onto its...
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Startup Arena Jakarta 2012: All 16 Startup Pitches [VIDEOS]
It’s been a week since we concluded our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 event. It was really an awesome experience for us, and a million thanks go to the local Indonesian tech/startup community which has...
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GREE Invests in GeePlus, a One Month-Old Gaming Company
GREE in action at a gaming conference. GREE (TYO:3632) announced today that it has purchased shares in GeePlus, a company that plans and develops social games in Japan. This major investment will see...
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6 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Social media! Cash! Bribery! No, we’re not trying to bribe you to follow us on social media – though we’re delighted if you do – and instead we’re giving you our weekly round-up of the hottest tech...
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7 Asian Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week
In the last seven days, we have covered a couple of startups on Tech in Asia, specifically from China, India, Japan, and Singapore. For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with these...
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YFind Raises S$1.5 Million in Series A Round
We wrote about Singapore-based startup, YFind, about a year ago. And today, we received news that it has concluded a SGD$1.5 million (US$1.18 million) Series A round led by Walden International and...
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After US$19.7M Funding Announcement, Singapore’s ACE Launches Beijing Chapter
Jason is currently the president of Young Entrepreneurs Association of NUS (YEAN), and does business development at LetYo.com. He also sits on the Steering Committee of ACE Beijing Chapter, as the...
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