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Baidu Searchers Jet to Skyscanner for Flight Information
Back in January we wrote about how Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) was integrating more travel features into its ‘Box Computing’ services leading up to Chinese New Year. The company just...
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New Film Chronicles How Jack Ma and Alibaba Beat eBay [TRAILER]
Jack Ma plays to the crowd at an Alibaba event If China’s Alibaba Group IPOs, as many analysts think it will, in a few years’ time, it’ll be the world’s biggest ever tech IPO. But not too much is known...
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Shoephoric Goes From Social to Shoe Shopping
Shoe addicts, celebrate! Or shall we say, get Shoephoric? Shoephoric: [Shoo-for-ik]; adjective: Immensely happy because of shoes. To Ann Jacobe, the “founder-in-killer-heels” of Shoephoric.com, an...
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Did Tencent Just Quietly Take Down That Illegally Copied Web Game?
I’ve been following the story of Cloudstone for over a week now. If you haven’t, here’s the short version: Chinese developers Baofeng Dongman copied a Western web game called Cloudstone wholesale and...
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MobileApps Dies, But Gives Birth to Rich Media Ads
Startups come and go. But not too many folks have the balls to point out their own mistakes and immediately use the experience to move on to the next venture. So kudos to Alvin Koay for being the type...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [August 25, 2012]
This week was crazy. Seriously. A lot of stuff happened. Picking one news story this week was hard. Do you go with the departure of a tech industry giant? The online war between several e-commerce...
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Jakarta’s Governor Election to Use E-Counting System
Jakarta’s Governor Election Committee is to use what’s called an “e-counting system” to tally the votes in the upcoming second round of Jakarta’s governor election. To implement this program, the...
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China’s Tencent Raises $600 Million from Notes Offering
China’s biggest web company by revenue, Tencent (HKG:0700), has today set a price of $600 million, and a rate of 3.375 percent, on a senior unsecured notes offering. This will raise $594 million for...
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Cheers! Wine E-Tailer Jiuxian Celebrates $32 Million Series C Funding
This calls for a drink! The Chinese e-commerce site Jiuxian.com, which specializes in selling wines and spirits, has cause to celebrate after wrapping up series C funding worth RMB 200 million (nearly...
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As Flipboard Turns 2, China and Japan are Among Top Countries for Users
Everyone’s favorite newsreader Flipboard celebrates its second birthday this summer, and to mark the occasion the company has released a fun infographic highlighting many of its important milestones....
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Allods Online Launches in China Tomorrow, Some Lucky Gamers to Win Free...
After earlier concerns that the free-to-play MMORPG Allods Online might be banned in China, the game will actually launch in the country tomorrow (August 30th) at 2pm local time. The Russian-developed...
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Qihoo 360 Fights Back, Banishes “Co-operation” with Baidu
And the battle rages on… Last night, Baidu redirected all its products’ webpages searched from Qihoo 360’s search engine to its front page. And now just hours ago, 360 Search retaliated by switching...
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Sedapur Looks to Become the Pioneer for Culinary E-Commerce in Indonesia
Sedapur has a name that consists of three different meanings: one is “sedap” which means delicious, “dapur” which means kitchen, and “sedapur” which means one kitchen. The site aims to help Indonesia...
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Sina Weibo Removes ‘Beta’ Label, Now Makes Twitter Look Like a Baby
Look, Ma, no beta! Sina Weibo, China’s hottest Twitter-like service, has today removed the beta label from its site. The move comes one day after Weibo’s third anniversary, and ahead of a good-looking...
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Indonesian E-commerce Website Multiply Features Limited Time Gadget Sale
Indonesian e-commerce site Multiply looks to strengthen its electronics department by holding another gadget sale, and this one lasts only until August 31. The sale offers four flagship products by...
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Indian Lingerie E-Commerce Site Proving Popular in its First Year
Zivame.com India-based lingerie e-commerce site Zivame.com is celebrating its one-year anniversary, with some impressive accomplishments to date. The company says that since it started last year it has...
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Qihoo 360: No Mixing of Paid and Organic Links in Our Search Results Page
Photo: whicdn.com We have been questioning Qihoo 360’s (NYSE:QIHU) representatives multiple times on its 360 Search algorithm since last week when its search service was launched. The company kept...
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Platform to Allow Millions of ‘Unbanked’ Thais Purchase Online
Nicholas Altstadt is a freelance journalist based in Southeast Asia and a regular contributor to local news and reviews website Coconuts Bangkok. Bank-tech whiz Aung Kyaw Moe is upping his game in...
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China’s Yaodian100 Gone, But Not Bankrupt, Leaving Suppliers Out of Pocket
Yaodian100's frontpage, before it vanished offline. At the end of last month we reported on how one long-standing Chinese e-commerce site, Yaodian100, had vanished off the face of the earth. And now...
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Lenovo Holds a Quarter of PC Market in Japan
IDC Japan: 2H 2012 PC market share for Japan According to Marbridge Daily, Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo (HKG:0992) announced in Japan yesterday that it has become the leading vendor in the Japanese...
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