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Apple’s Q3 Earnings Sees China, Asia Revenue Down, But CEO Cook Still Pleased
Apple’s earnings summary for Q3 2012 has been released, and looking at the regional breakdown of the company’s revenue, the figures from the Asia Pacfic region are somewhat disappointing relative to...
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IndexMedia Pips Makes Images on the Web More Engaging
Melbourne-based startup, IndexMedia, has a brilliant tool for advertisers and publishers, which turns boring banner ads into highly engaging ones. The tool, Pips, aims to revolutionize the digital...
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China’s LeTV Channels Apple to Make an Internet TV Box
(Click to enlarge) Chinese video-streaming site LeTV has launched its own internet TV box that’ll stream LeTV’s licensed content – a mix of movies, TV series, and cartoons – to televisions. Called the...
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Japanese Prime Minister’s Office to Use Sina Weibo to Reach Out to Chinese...
Reports in Japanese and Chinese media are saying that the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office will soon be making use of the popular Sina Weibo microblog service as a means of reaching out to the public...
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Makers of Camera360 Launch a Photoshopping Web App
The makers of the hit photo app Camera360 have brought their image-altering expertise to a new stage: a Photoshop-esque website called 52Photo.com where people can upload, tweak, and add effects to...
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Celebrate Singapore’s 47th Birthday With This Augmented Reality Game
For many Singaporeans like myself, August 9th marks a special day for all of us, which is our nation’s independence day. This year, in order to celebrate Singapore’s 47th Birthday, Massive Infinity, a...
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Indonesian Gadget Review Site TeknoUp Moves Into E-Commerce
TeknoUp, the Indonesian site that specialized in reviewing gadgets and covering technology, has decided to step to the e-commerce wars. The TeknoUp Store, currently in beta version has opened its doors...
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Indonesian Government to Broaden Internet Penetration in Remote Areas
Indonesia’s ministry of information and communication technology is redistributing another 40 units of internet-equipped cars to the eastern part of Indonesia in its effort to broaden the country’s...
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DeNA and Daum Take Mobage Partnership to the Next Level
Kyongwan Son, Daum; Ichiro Hazama, Square Enix; Steven Yang, DeNA Seoul Some of our readers may recall last February when Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432), in cooperation with Korean web...
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See Who Rules China’s B2C E-Commerce Market as It Nears $100 Billion in Value...
New statistics for China’s B2C e-commerce sector in 2012 Q2 show that the market leader, Tmall, has extended its lead even further in this two-horse race. Second-place 360Buy has also grown slightly in...
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Optus Innov8 Seed Program Announces Winter 2012 Shortlisted Startups
We reported about a month back that telco giants Optus and Singtel – via its Innov8 incubator – have announced joint efforts to launch the Optus Innov8 Seed Program, to help fund early-stage digital...
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Fazzione Provides Discounts for Branded Fashion to Members
Fazzione is a private sales site offering discounts up to 90 percent for fashion products to site members only. Founded by Goncalo Saudade e Silva, the company has also recruited Jeffry Yamin to bring...
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Beijing Police Arrests 5,000 in Internet Crime Clampdown
Beijing’s Public Security Bureau – ie: the police – has issued a notice saying that it has arrested 5,007 people engaged in internet-related crimes. In addition, the police has meted out various...
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Startup Ships You Cool Japanese Toys for a Monthly Subscription
Sugo Toys Japan is a new service that allows users to buy a new toy from Japan each month. It capitalizes on the popularity of Japanese manga, anime, and video games which are popular with fans...
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With 1 Million Diners Served, Singapore’s Chope Looks to Hong Kong
Chope, the Singapore-based online restaurant reservation startup, has served its one-millionth diner this week. Just to give you a little perspective, that’s about one-fifth of the country’s...
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Keep Screwing Things Up
No need to master everything before you start. Just start! I like to think I’m a doer kind of person. Put me in a lecture room and it wouldn’t do me any good. I learn better if I just do it, make...
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How Bandung is About to Become More Connected
The Indonesian government plans to provide free wi-fi hotspots to half of Bandung’s housing communities (RW) this October. As many as 1,563 out of 3,958 housing communities in Bandung will be equipped...
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NHN Japan’s Line App Passes 50 Million Users in 399 Days
Ok, this is getting ridiculous. NHN Japan is announcing today that their Line messaging/calling app has surpassed 50 million users worldwide as of today, July 26. Of those users, 23.5 million are from...
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Report: China’s Gaming Biz Brings in $3.93 Billion, Mobile Gaming Not So Much
A brand-new report on China’s gaming industry shows that the whole sector – covering PC and mobile online games and also single-player games – shows that it has grown 18.5 percent in the past year,...
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Urbanesia’s Location-Based API is Open for Developers
Indonesian city lifestyle directory website Urbanesia yesterday announced that its API is now open for third-party developers. The API will allow other apps to make use of Urbanesia’s location data,...
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