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Elecom to Release World’s First NFC Smartphone Keyboard in Japan
Japanese company Elecom recently announced it would be launching this smartphone keyboard which makes use of NFC technology to connect to your handset. Typing on a mobile touchscreen has always been a...
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Netease: 500 Million Email Users, Nearly On a Par With Hotmail
One of China’s biggest web portals, Netease (NASDAQ:NTES), has announced that its email services have just passed 500 million users. That puts Netease mail on a par with Windows Live in 2009 and its...
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For Girls Only: Lady Developer Bootcamp Will Get Hacking in the Philippines
Developer’s Connect Philippines and Openovate Labs will hold a bootcamp next month that’s strictly for geek gals – “Lady Developer Camp Series: Rapid Prototyping in PHP.” This event targets...
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Baidu Maps Launches on Windows Phone With a Killer Feature
(Image via WPDang.com) Although Microsoft’s Windows Phone (WP) mobile OS seems to be only having modest success in China and around the globe, it has nonetheless attracted a lot of Chinese web...
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After European Acquisition, 99Designs CEO Talks About Asia Plans
Earlier this week design marketplace 99designs acquired European rival 12designer for an undisclosed sum. For 99designs, this marks an important step in its expansion in Europe, of course, but what...
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CoolIris App Receives 25 Million Photoviews in Asia in Two Weeks
Following the news of receiving investment from Docomo Capital for CoolIris’ expansion in Japan and around Asia, most folks are also probably aware that the company has released its app two weeks back,...
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An Indonesian Political Candidate is the Hero of His Own Online Game
We previously covered stories about how social media has been used in politics in places like Singapore, Korea, and Indonesia. In Jakarta, one candidate for governor, Joko Widodo, stepped up his game...
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Revenues Up 56% at Tencent, China’s Biggest Web Company
China’s biggest tech company in terms of revenue, Tencent (HKG:0700), has just revealed its 2012 Q2 and half-year financial results. The stats show the company – which has stakes in gaming, social...
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Ushi Shares Future Plans, Says LinkedIn’s Model Unpopular in China
China-based professional social network, Ushi, shared some of its plans for the future today. And they are ambitious plans too, I think. In the statement, Ushi said that it is looking to be profitable...
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Sony’s Mobile Gaming Service, PlayStation Mobile, Coming This Fall
Sony Tablets Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it will be launching PlayStation Mobile this fall, bringing its PlayStation ecosystem to mobile devices via the PlayStation Store. The...
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From China With Love: Huawei Targets India, Plans 20,000 New Stores
Folks in India are buying new phones at the rate of about 10 million a month. China’s Huawei wants a piece of that, using its India-based production line as a ramp for selling more phones in the...
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Carrefour Indonesia Jumps into E-Commerce, Wants to Change How You Shop
Retail giant Carrefour Indonesia is launching its online shopping platform today, enabling its customers to purchase items from the comfort from their home. They would still need to come over to the...
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360Buy CEO Declares Price War, Suning and Gome Fire Back
360Buy puts on its massive price war armor Ah, weibo. Without you, life would be so dull! E-commerce CEOs would carry out their fights behind closed doors and all we’d see would be the lower prices....
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China Has Produced 620 Million Mobile Phones This Year
Looking at data from the past seven months, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released a number of statistics about China’s telecomm equipment production. In that time, China...
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Cut The Bullshit, Singapore. Solve Point Number 3
As a Singaporean, it’s delightful reading this article from the BBC about startups in Singapore. But I have to say that it is always the same sort of story, in more or less this structure: It’s...
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“Weibo Reach” Puts Serious Analytical Tools Right at Your Fingertips
Sina Weibo is a powerful communication tool. But it doesn’t offer much in the way of analytics. Enter Chinese startup Weibo Reach, which takes your tweets and produces awesome visualizations of their...
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Xiaomi’s Next-Gen Phone Specs Leak, Will Have Better Retina Display Than...
With hours to go to the much-anticipated launch of China’s hottest homegrown smartphone, likely to be called the Xiaomi M2, the crafty crew at Micgadget got to the Beijing launch event venue way ahead...
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ComScore: In Asia, Japan Watches Most Online Videos
Research firm ComScore has some interesting metrics about how the world watches online video, claiming that in the month of June 1.2 billion people around the world watched online video from their...
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Tencent: 400 Million Chinese Used Its Streaming and Social Olympics Coverage...
Now that the London Olympics are all over, Chinese web giant Tencent (HKG:0700) has put together an infographic that shows all the sporting chatter and hits from across its social media and news portal...
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“Open Government Indonesia” Wants to Put Public Services Online
As an Indonesian, I tend to think that most of my government agencies perform terribly when it comes to serving the public. And it is one of the main objectives of Indonesia’s president, Susilo...
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