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Opera Reveals Mobile Market Facts and Figures for China, India, and Indonesia...
Opera, the maker of the popular and web and mobile browser, has shared some interesting statistics with us. Asia is pretty big so we took the liberty of focusing on three key countries/markets: China,...
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Youku Releases Q2 Financials: Revenue Growing, Merger on Track
China’s biggest internet video company, Youku (NYSE:YOKU), released its quarter two financial report this evening, and the results are somewhat mixed. Although the company is still posting a net loss...
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Chinese PC Maker Lenovo Wants More of the US Market
New ThinkPad X131e Laptop According to a Bloomberg report today, Chinese PC maker Lenovo (HKG:0992) is going after Dell’s share of government and education sales in the US. Earlier this year we saw...
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Marvel’s War of Heroes Coming Soon, Exclusively on DeNA’s Mobage
Cool wallpaper and rare cards... Boys' soft spot. The digital card game Rage of Bahamut was obviously a success. So more digital card games will arrive on Mobage. The next big title to launch will be...
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Microsoft Partners with PPTV for Cloud-Based TV Streaming Service
In a press release this evening, Microsoft announced that it has partnered with Chinese web streaming video company PPTV to launch PPTV Asia TV Networks (ATN) as a new platform for streaming video in...
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China’s Dark PR: Time to Say Goodbye to Paid Censorship
Baidu fired four scumbags FTW. Over the weekend, news broke that three Baidu employees were arrested on suspicion of accepting payoffs in return for deleting posts from Baidu’s online forums. A fourth...
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Jakarta Goes Green with Charging Stations, Electric Cars
Indonesian minister Dahlan Iskan (pictured) has been personally testing the little electric hatchback car. (Click to enlarge) We love green technologies, we love cleaner air, and we love cheaper...
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Speak up Asia: IEEE Internet Computing Calls for Papers on Censorship
IEEE Internet Computing magazine is calling for submissions on Internet Censorship and Control. Given the amount of censorship that we’ve seen in Asia over the past year, it would be great to see some...
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Rolling Babaa Mixes Donuts and Gravity in Physics-Based Puzzle Game
Movin Studio, a game and mobile app studio based in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, has just launched its first game. Called Rolling Babaa, it’s a child-oriented physics-based puzzler and is now available on...
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Psoda Covers Your Ass For Project Management, Start to Finish
Psoda is five year old startup from New Zealand that offers online management tools that help you manage projects. It is an interesting startup because, well, it basically covers the entire tedious...
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China’s Joome is a “Social Router” That Wants To Spread Free Wifi Love
In this digital era, it’s all too easy to be selfish in public, staring down at smartphone screens, hooked up intravenously to the internet. And so the Chinese startup Joome is as much a movement as a...
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Mobile Gold: Who Takes Top Spot in Olympics-related Mobile Searches?...
Most of you are probably enjoying the Olympics coverage these days, but perhaps in a manner quite different than you did for past Olympic games. The folks at Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) have crunched some...
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Ideosource Launches Incubation Audition in Indonesia
Startups! Prepare your pitches and get ready for a chance to learn a thing or two from Indonesian incubator Ideosource. Its “Ideosource Incubation Audition” will be held soon in five big Indonesian...
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Cloud Management Startup Nubefy Enters Private Beta
Nubefy, as we wrote about a year ago, provides companies with a solution to free themselves from getting locked into any cloud host. And eight months later after some funding from the Singapore...
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Amid Flooding in Philippines, Rescue Information Circulates Online
Many of you have probably heard by now that heavy rains in the Philippines have caused serious floods in Manila. We hope everyone there can be safe, so we’d like to share a few important conversations...
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For Chinese Using Online Banking, Forget Firefox, Chrome, or Mac
One Chinese bank has set off a torrent of complaints among Chinese web users after it admitted via social media that its online banking system lacks full support for browsers other than Microsoft’s...
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CloudyRec Offers Developers Up To S$1,000 For Using its Backend
Singapore-based CloudyRec is offering some mobile app developers SGD 1,000 (US$805) to use its backend cloud-hosting service. So if you’re looking to build an app or game on iOS, Android, Windows...
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Tiket Adds Train Tickets Booking Feature, Prepares API For Developers
Tiket, a startup that serves as a ticket booking platform for almost everything, has added yet another offering: train ticket booking. Launched today, this follows the official site for train ticket...
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Ookbee: Thailand’s Biggest Ebook Store on iOS and Android
One of the more popular startups in Thailand, Ookbee is an ebook store platform which claims to have over 85 percent market share in the country. It works as a standalone store and also partners with...
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Stefan Magdalinski Speaks about Multiply’s Blog Shutdown
“Multiply will continue to maintain the social network (blogging, sharing) platform and services.” That was a response I got from Indonesia’s marketplace Multiply when I asked them about the future of...
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