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Rumor: Netease Abandons Plans for Cheap Smartphone
Netease CEO Ding LeiBack in May, Netease was one of the many companies planning on releasing a branded low-cost smartphone to compete with the likes of Xiaomi in China. Earlier this month, rumors began...
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MIIT: Mobile Phones Now Most Popular Way to Access Web in China
The folks at China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) are always churning out interesting statistics about the internet, and here’s the latest: mobile phones are now the most...
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From Messaging to Games: KakaoTalk Starts Game Center for Korea
Photo: Yahoo News Korea When we last spoke to Kakao at Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai, they alluded to a ‘Game Center’ that was coming in a few weeks time. And just yesterday the Korean company’s game...
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After a Long Time, Asian Art E-commerce Startup ArtKred Now in Beta
ArtKred is a Singapore-based startup founded by undergraduate Spencer Yang. The startup has had quite a journey so far. It started as PizzaBoxArt, then changed its direction slightly, and now the...
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Tinybeans Photographs Your Children’s Lives, One Day at a Time
Sydney-based startup, Tinybeans, is an online family journal for busy parents to create and record moments of their children’s lives in calender format. There will be profiles created for each child,...
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China’s Maxthon Takes Its Browser to the Mac [REVIEW]
China-based Maxthon, makers of web browsers for numerous platforms, is now venturing into new territory: the Mac. The brand-new Maxthon for Mac has just been launched, and is based on the Google-run...
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Video Shopping Startup CuriousCatch Launches Today
Singapore-based startup CuriousCatch.com is diving into the e-commerce battlefield today. But it is approaching it with a twist — using video as an extra factor to engage its consumers. The e-commerce...
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Report Says Japan Very Active on Twitter, But Among Slowest in Growth
Image: japanese.ruvr.ru French research group Semiocast has released an interesting report showing the top countries and top cities in terms of Twitter accounts. Perhaps the most stunning figure is...
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Report: VIPStore to Cut Nearly Half of Workforce in Major Shake-Up
In China’s crowded luxury e-commerce market, it would appear that VIPStore (aka: Jiapin.com) is having to be, somewhat paradoxically, very frugal. Chinese tech media are today reporting that nearly...
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Despite Over $50 Million in Funding, E-Tailer Yaodian100 Vanishes Offline
Yaodian100's frontpage, before it vanished offline. That was quite a vanishing act. The Chinese e-commerce site Yaodian100 – which has, over the years, received over $50 million in funding – has gone...
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Nexon Partners With EA Sports to Bring FIFA Online 3 to Korea
Korean football fans can delight in the fact that FIFA Online 3 is coming to Korea, thanks to a partnership between Nexon (TYO: 3659) and EA Sports studio (NASDAQ:ERTS). Nexon is a popular South Korean...
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Post-a-Card Lets You Send Postcards from Your Smartphone
With the advent of email, we’re gradually forgetting how it feels to receive an actual postcard in the mail. There are e-postcards, but they lack the personal touch. To rekindle that joy of holding an...
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Kuratas, the Smartphone Controlled Mega-Robot, Unveiled!
Wohooo! It turns out that the robot ass-kicking fun in the Real Steel movie isn’t too far away now that the Japanese electronics company, Suidobashi Heavy Industry, has revealed a $1.2 million...
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Japan’s DeNA Uses Its E-Commerce Expertise To Help Local Retailer Online
Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432) is announcing today a deal with Seiyu, a Japanese subsidiary of Walmart, to create online shopping services for the retail store group. For readers of this blog who are...
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Stamp-Forging Gang Hacked 185 Chinese Government Websites
Police-confiscated forged stamps and documents If you want to do anything official in China, you’re going to need some stamps. Red-ink official “chops” adorn almost every kind of important document,...
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Rumor: Lenovo Looking to Close Shenzhen Factory [UPDATE: Lenovo Denies Rumors]
Photo: AP via The Hindu Lenovo is the world’s second-biggest PC company (and it’s got its eyes on the number one spot), but even that sort of success may not insulate some of its line workers from...
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US’s CECC Holds Hearing on Chinese Workers’ Rights, Apple and VTech Criticized
Li Qiang testifies The United States’s Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) — chaired by congressman Chris Smith and senator Sherrod Brown — held a hearing today to discuss workers’...
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3 Common Challenges Faced By Singapore Startups
I have been pondering this issue for some time now, and I thought I’d like to put this in writing as well. You may agree or disagree but these are my thoughts. You have yours and I would certainly...
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Italo Gani’s Guide to Inbound Marketing 101
I met up with Indonesian serial entrepreneur Italo Gani a couple of days ago, and he shared some information about his new company, Inbound ID. He guided us through its services, discussed the...
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Chinese Retailer Finds Triple-Digit Growth Only Happens Online
This is why retailers need a strong presence in e-commerce. Chinese electronics retailer Suning (SHE:002024) has posted unaudited results for 2012 H1 that show its online operations, at Suning.com,...
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