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Vibease Launches Android App, Bluetooth Vibrator in the Works
It’s no secret that we’ve been interested in Vibease around here since the team pitched its unusual product at our first Startup Asia conference. We’ve been waiting patiently for the vibrator/app...
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Chinese Stolen Game Engine Taken Down, Thief Apologizes to Real Developer
the copied kilofox.net site, now broken and no longer selling a stolen product Last week amidst a series of stories on IP theft, we reported that a Chinese web user had stolen wholesale the product and...
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How Foxconn Changed a Small Chinese Town
Chances are pretty good that the folks at Foxconn had something to do with at least a part of whatever device you’re reading this post on right now. The Taiwanese company is massive, and with plants...
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Indosat Extends Bonus Program; Sharing Stats in the Process
Indonesian telecommunications provider Indosat is extending its promotional bonus program called “Program 3 hari 3 malam lanjuut” which means ‘3 days 3 nights continues,’ up until October 24 [1]. The...
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Inside Life at Qihoo 360: Working Under Constant Fear of CEO Zhou Hongyi...
Qihoo’s CEO and co-founder, Zhou Hongyi, is famous in the Chinese tech industry. Most locals I have spoken to pay him respect for what he has achieved, going from zero to a listed company. But at the...
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Citizen Grim Now on Facebook and Russia’s VK, With Plans to Invade China...
Vancouver-based social games developer Eruptive Games recently announced a partnership with Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) to bring its Citizen Grim game to Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). And while the title hasn’t yet...
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Baidu-Qihoo War Reflects Longstanding Feud Between Zhou Hongyi and Robin Li
Bravery or hubris? Search is Zhou Hongyi's white whale. Qihoo 360′s Zhou Hongyi and Baidu’s Robin Li are currently battling it out over the China search market. But this isn’t an isolated incident. In...
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Why the 2013 Minimum Wage Hike in Shenzhen, China’s First Tech Hub, is Not...
(Image via 591hx.com) The hi-tech manufacturing hub around the city of Shenzhen, in southern China, is set to be hit with a rise in the minimum wage of 13.3 percent in 2013. According to Wired, that...
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Chinese Developer Sells Fake (and Crappy) Line Camera Application in Apple...
VS Media is pointing out today that an imitation of NHN’s popular Line Camera photo app has appeared on Apple’s app store. Line Camera from Japan has skyrocketed to 10 million users at a rate faster...
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Evernote Opens Taiwan Office, Keen to Work With Local Developers
The US-based cloud notes app Evernote is following up on its recent Beijing office by opening up one in Taiwan, the company revealed today. That’s its fourth base in Asia. The two-person team in...
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Call Me Maybe: Leaked Photos Show WeChat Earphones for Easier Voice Messaging
Click to enlarge! Looking like a cross between Apple’s iconic, minimalist earphones and the blood-red buds from Beats Audio, these leaked photos suggest that the huge Chinese-made messaging app WeChat...
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Smartphone Monetization Platform Metaps Drives 10 Million Downloads in 1 Year
Japan-based Metaps recently announced that its smartphone monetization platform has driven 10 million app downloads in the span of one year. The company says that its success is due to an increasing...
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How a New Mobile Web App Lets Filipinos Report Bad Taxi Drivers
Taxikick is a web app founded by Benedict Aluan and Jefferson Rosende that will help you report abusive taxi drivers in the Philippines, such as any rude ones who just choose passengers whenever they...
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League of Legends Localized and Launched in Thailand, Already 100,000...
Most recently named the ‘most played PC game in the world’ by Forbes, the popular and award-winning free-to-play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) League of Legends has now officially become...
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Baidu-Qihoo War Rages On: Qihoo Tosses Baidu Images, Baidu Fans Suggest Lawsuit
We’ve written quite a bit about the ongoing war between Baidu and Qihoo 360, but things are happening so fast, it’s tough to keep up. Here’s the latest from the front: Qihoo has officially replaced...
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Learning More About Ivali, StartOS, and Linux for the Chinese User [INTERVIEW]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about an interesting new startup called Ivali. The company makes StartOS, a Linux-based operating system targeted at Chinese users with the idea of providing a simple,...
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“Open Government Indonesia” Launches Satu Layanan in Beta Version
Recently we wrote about Open Government Indonesia, a movement that aims to promote better transparency, public participation, and innovation in government agencies. At that time we had a sneak peek at...
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Kai-Fu Lee and Citron Continue to Duke It Out Over Soft Seller’s Ethics and...
The former Google China boss Kai-Fu Lee made a stand against short sellers Citron Research earlier this week – and now the two parties continue to duke it out via open letters, debating the ethics of...
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GREE Launches Youth Programming Contest
Here’s something interesting for young devs, from GREE: Information Processing Society of Japan (“IPSJ”) and GREE announced that they will hold the IPSJ International AI Programming Contest SamurAI...
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Filipino Startup Kalibrr Builds an Online Learning Platform for BPO Applicants
Rollings Stones concert, Rio, 2006 In 2016, if you gather everyone working at a BPO company in the Philippines and put them all on a beach front, it might look a little like the picture on the right....
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