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Chinese Startup Weibo Bridge Matches Advertisers With Weibo Power Users
Do you wish your weibo feed had more advertisements on it? Yeah, neither do I, but advertisers sure do, especially when those ads are coming from users you trust and chose to follow. That’s where...
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Chinese Video Streaming Site 56.com Launches “Open Platform” Strategy
Chinese video streaming site 56.com announced an open platform strategy yesterday that the company hopes will help expand its user base. The platform, which can be found at dev.56.com, gives pro users...
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Apple’s iPad Holds Nearly Three Quarters of China’s Tablet Market [Report]
Photo: news.mydrivers.com According to new figures from Chinese research firm Analysys International, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is doing very, very well in China’s tablet space. For the second quarter...
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InnoVentures Olivier Carnohan and His Entrepreneurial Journey
French-born and self-confessed “Gadgetologist,” Olivier Carnohan is currently the CEO of InnoVentures, which is a joint venture between a Singapore telco Singtel and Japanese internet company...
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Paypal Loses Biggest Asia Partner as China’s DHgate Pulls the Plug
Remember that massive deal between PayPal and the Chinese B2B e-commerce site DHgate? The huge one that was PayPal’s biggest partnership in Asia? Well, it’s all over. Chinese media is reporting that...
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Xiaomi Makes an Acquisition, Points to Building an Apple Facetime Rival
The makers of China’s hottest homegrown smartphone, Xiaomi, has made a curious acquisition in the form of the team behind the third-party messaging app MSNLite. The financial details of the deal...
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Indonesia Celebrates 17th National Technology Awakening Day
Indonesia’s 17th National Technology Awakening Day (aka Hakteknas) will start today at 1:30pm and run until August 11 in Bandung city. The main events consist of an RITech Expo at Sabuga, a Triple...
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Indonesia Will See More Websites Blocked
Image source: www.tuvpn.com On August 7th, Nawala Nusantara, a foundation providing internet filtering service, announced a partnership with Association of Indonesia Internet Service Provider (Asosiasi...
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US Olympic Swimmer Ryan Lochte Joins Sina Weibo
Thanks to the folks over on Ad Age for pointing out that American Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has now joined Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo microblogging service, in an effort to reach out to Chinese fans....
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Startup Event Today Postponed as Rains, Floods Affect Metro Manila
Juan Great Leap is a Philippines-based innovation forum that was scheduled to hold its Ayala Foundation Presents: Juan Great Leap event today in Luzon at the UP Technohub. However, due to non-stop...
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Renren Has 45 Million Monthly Active Users, Eyes on Mobile
Renren (NYSE:RENN), the Chinese Facebook-ish social network, has released its unaudited second quarter 2012 financial results. In short, both user count/activity and financials are looking okay. They...
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Brazilian Footballing Legend Pelé Gets Social in China, Joins Sina Weibo
When we reported that American Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte had just joined Sina Weibo, we thought he’d be the biggest new sporting name to hit the Twitter-esque site this week. But no. Because here...
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Google Launches Crisis Response Page, Person Finder for Philippines Flood
Philippines Flood August 2012 - Google Map Yesterday we mentioned a few of the important resources that are being passed around on Twitter in order to help cope with the current flood crisis in the...
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Excite Talks About its Plans For Indonesia, Will Reward Click-Happy Users
Japanese online service provider Excite recently launched its advertising-based points program called Excite Points, claiming to be the first of its kind user reward system in Indonesia. We talked to...
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Niko Partners: Revenue for Chinese Browser-Based Games Will Grow 41% This Year
Browser-based casual (and hardcore) gaming is big in China, and it’s only growing. Research firm Niko partners says revenue for browser-based games will increase by 41 percent in 2012. The company...
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No Crysis for Crytek as it Opens Shanghai Studio
The German games studio Crytek, makers of the CryEngine that powers its online titles like Crysis and Warface, is setting up a new studio in Shanghai – its second such base in Asia. We recently...
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Startup Ivali Makes an Easy-to-use Linux-Based OS for the Chinese Market
I’m not a big Linux user, so I was surprised and impressed when I stumbled across StartOS today, the first Linux-based operating system from Chinese startup Ivali. StartOS is a Linux-based system...
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China’s Mobile Phone Exports to US Way Up, Exports to Africa Way Down
China makes an awful lot of mobile phones. Most of those phones are exported and sold elsewhere. So who is China’s biggest mobile customer? According to some new data released by the Chinese...
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Vidinterest is a Pinterest Site for Videos Only
Nepal-based Vidinterest.com adopted the Pinterest idea of a social pinboard, but focuses just on video sharing and discovery. It is essentially a skin for YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion videos but I...
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Hong Kong, Startups, and Bootcamp
Hong Kong, like Singapore, is a city that is a financial hub for many international businesses, but still a small market. Similar to Singapore, it is a place with a growing number of startups and in...
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