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Quran and Teman Ibadah Apps Help You During Ramadhan
Quran and Teman Ibadah are both apps to help you during the fasting month of Ramadhan. Developed by 7langit, Quran is available on Blackberry while Teman Ibadah also can be downloaded for Android....
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Startups, Avoid Advertising at Your Own Risk
After 15 years of working for someone else Mikaal Abdulla finally got smart and started his own company. He is the co-founder and CEO of 8 Securities and his journey has taken him through Silicon...
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LoveByte: “We’re growing so fast that we had to scramble to upgrade our server”
Muacks! Kisses! Hugs! Now you can do all these in an app. I mean, you can do it via SMS, email, or any chat apps out there. But LoveByte gives you that extra loving sensation for digital romance...
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China’s New TV Ban: No Web Game or Novel Adaptation, No Remakes of Foreign Shows
Totally unrelated image. Our friends at SARFT, China’s film and TV censorship board, are at it again. Having banned internet celebrities from television earlier this year (along with a bunch of other...
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China Blocks Hep B Patient Rights Website Just Before World Hepatitis Day
World Hepatitis Day is July 28th; it’s a day that’s meant to raise awareness of hepatitis B and C and encourage prevention and treatment. But according to the AIDS Policy Project, China’s biggest...
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Startup Advice: How to Keep Your Employees Happy
Keeping employees can be difficult for any startup, but that’s especially true in China, where young people often expect to work jobs for a short time before moving on to the next one. So how can a...
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14 Tech Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye
Another week has passed in Tech in Asia and below is the list of startups which we have covered. For tips and stories suggestions, feel free to email us at Editors[at]techinasia[dot].com. Enjoy! 1....
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Tokyo Startup Builds a Better Facebook App
Tokyo’s Wondershake is a startup best known for having developed a remarkable LBS smartphone app. It has raised a total of more than $360,000 from several incubators including CyberAgent Ventures and...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [August 5, 2012]
This week, America may have been focused on whether or not eating chicken affects gay marriage, but the rest of the world was worried about the Olympics. You might think that has nothing to do with...
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5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
Hello, Olympics fans! Did you know that tech things continued to happen in China this week? It’s true, they did. And some of them didn’t have anything to do with the Olympics either. Intrigued? Read...
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Is Zodio Asia’s Yelp?
Zodio, the Thailand-born startup founded by Jai Goviandi, is a company that aspires to be the Yelp of Asia. Launched in Thailand, it plans to expand to the Philippines, and then to the whole Southeast...
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DSYR Combines Flash Sales With Great Design
Founded by Ben Chin and Kian Howe, Malaysia-based startup DSYR (stands for “Design Styles Year Round”) combines flash sales with wonderfully designed products. The founders are obviously inspired by...
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Hometown: Pakistan’s First E-Commerce Site Selling Handmade Products
Based in Pakistan, Hometown claims to be the first e-commerce site selling handmade leather products in the country. The startup was founded just slightly more than a month ago by Waqas Ali (who wrote...
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Facebook E-Commerce Platform LakuBgt Has Big Plans
Indonesian startup LakuBgt.com, whose name stands for “Laku Banget” (meaning “really sells a lot” in English), essentially helps online sellers set up better-looking shops with online payment systems...
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Weico, the Funkiest App For Weibo, Lands on Windows Phone
Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS will soon get a spoonful of sugar courtesy of a cute new app by a Beijing startup. Now in public beta but not yet uploaded to the WP Marketplace, the app is Weico, which...
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Survey Says Nearly 1 in 5 Japanese are Heavy Users of News Aggregators
Naver Matome Dentsu Public Relations has conducted a survey into the usage of news aggregators in Japan (such as Naver Matome or 2 Channel Matome), and has come up with some interesting findings. When...
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Facing Rising Labor Costs, One Chinese E-Commerce Site Opts For “Made in...
Vancl is China’s top own-brand e-commerce site, selling its own cheap yet cheerful clothing items in a manner similar to Japan’s Uniqlo. Except Vancl does it only online. Some of its clothes retail,...
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Chinese Courts Facing Dilemma Over Web Censorship-Related Lawsuits
A former co-president of the Harvard Asia Law Society has looked into the potentially contentious issue of Chinese web users taking legal action in cases related to web censorship. It raises the...
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JSCamp Asia: A Conference for Javascript and the Mobile Web in Asia
For mobile web developers, HTML5 and javascript are key tools for anyone who wants to bring some flashy (no, not that Flash) interactivity to their websites. And coming up this November in Singapore,...
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Here’s What We Know of the Next-Gen Xiaomi Phone [Photos]
The Xiaomi M2 seems to have been stripped bare by a Chinese registration document. It’s proving tough to keep China’s most-anticipated homegrown smartphone under wraps. The next-gen version of Xiaomi’s...
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