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Tokobagus Founders Have Left the Building
The two founders of Indonesian e-commerce TokoBagus, Arnold Sebastian Egg and Remco Lupker (pictured right), yesterday announced their departure from the e-commerce company to look for another...
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Xiaomi Mi2 Launches in Apple Style, Goes Quad-Core with Android 4.1 [PICS]
So after a long journey to the Beijing 798 Art Zone, I’m finally here, sweaty with tired thighs from all the walking and finding. But it was worth it, thankfully. Now straight to the Xiaomi Mi2 launch...
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With Brisk Business at Home, China’s Lenovo Reports $8 Billion in Quarterly...
New ThinkPad X131e Laptop Last month we cited figures from IDC which indicated that Chinese PC maker Lenovo (HKG:0992) is poised to we pass Hewlett Packard as the global leader in PC shipments sometime...
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Mozilla Philippines’ Summer Code Party Take Two
After a successful kick off event last June 23, Philippines Summer Code Party is coming again to Santa Rosa, Laguna on August 20, 2012. It is spearheaded by Jean Austin Rodriguez, a Mozilla...
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360Buy, Suning, Gome Price War: A Publicity Stunt?
Me the cheapestz Credit: LA Times In the taxi here in Beijing, radio hosts are discussing the publicity and price war between 360Buy, Suning, and Gome, three of China’s top electronics e-tailers. In...
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NHN Japan’s Line App Gets Boost From New Features
New Line stickers NHN Japan’s Line application, which recently surpassed 50 million users worldwide, has just received a big boost in the top grossing apps rankings. The company’s iOS app was ranked...
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Rumor: China Mobile to Invest in Voice Recognition Company
China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), the nation’s biggest mobile telco, has said that it has begun discussions to possibly invest in USTC iFlytek (SHE:002230), a local maker of Chinese-language voice...
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Gongmin Guanzhu Helps Chinese People Contact Their Government Representatives
I have written before about how government websites in China are a bit of a nightmare to navigate. Many of them haven’t been updated in years, and others may contain fake information designed to trick...
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Rumor: Douban Losing High Level Employees to Startups [UPDATED]
TechWeb is reporting that according to its internal sources, Chinese artsy social networking site Douban has been experiencing an unusually high rate of employee turnover these past three months among...
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Chinese Studio Blatantly Copies Foreign Indie Game, Developers Pissed [UPDATED]
China has made great strides away from its reputation as the home of all things fake and copied over the past few years, which makes an incident like this all the more depressing. According to a post...
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Making a Play for Game Developers, Guohe Launches New Mobile Gaming Ad Platform
One of China’s leading mobile advertising companies, Guohe Ads, has a new product out this week that’s aimed squarely at enabling the cross-promotion of mobile games. Called Mix, it’s the startup’s...
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Facebook and Kaskus are the Kings of Indonesian E-commerce
Online payment processor Veritrans and tech blog DailySocial have released a report on the Indonesian e-commerce scene. Interestingly, according to the research, half of online shoppers use both...
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Sina Says Weibo Monetization Dependent on User Growth
Sina CEO Charles Chao Chinese internet company Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) has just released its second-quarter financial report, with net revenues up 11 percent to 131.6 million. The company’s advertising...
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Motorola China Employees Protest Against Google, Fear At Least 1,000 Local...
The protest on Thursday outside of Motorola's R&D centre in Nanjing, eastern China. About a hundred employees of Motorola China have protested outside of a company’s R&D facility in Nanjing,...
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China’s Lashou Has Lost its Mojo, its IPO, and 50% of Market Share
Chinese daily deals site Lashou was, round about this time last year, being lauded as the cunning Groupon clone that would – oh, cruel irony – beat Groupon itself to a US IPO. After raising $50 million...
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ROI vs Roi
Photo: windows8update.com Many thousands of years ago (approx 200 BCE), there was a relatively tiny innovation that changed global geo-politics — the domestication of horses. Hundreds of years ago, we...
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Bukalapak Rolls Out New Online Payment System Using Mandiri Clickpay
Folks at the e-commerce site Bukalapak.com seem to have been busy recently. After releasing Scallope last month, Bukalapak informed us that they are releasing a new payment system. Indonesian users of...
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China’s UCWeb, Makers of UC Browser, Looks to US IPO in 2013
The makers of the popular UC Browser, Beijing-based UCWeb, is looking towards an IPO – probably in the US – in 2013. UCWeb CFO Roy Rong told Bloomberg in an interview that: We’re thinking this year...
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Punjab Government in Partnership with Google Launches Punjab Innovation Campaign
As the sixth most populated country, Pakistan could be a promising market for entrepreneurs. It has 29 million internet users and 119 million mobile users. The country is not yet famous for its...
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Apple’s App Store Forgets How to Speak Chinese, Shows You Weird Search Results
Well, that ain't working... Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iTunes App Store seems to have forgotten how to speak Chinese. Well, it is a tough language to crack. If you search using Chinese characters on the App...
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