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Google Japan Summons Doraemon in New TV Commercial
Thanks to @feitclub on Twitter for pointing out this fun new TV commercial from Google Japan, which celebrates everyone’s favorite manga robot cat, Doraemon, on his 100-year ‘reverse’ birthday (he was...
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Baidu Maps Gets 8-Bit 3D Views, Makes Real Life Feel Like Sim City [UPDATED]
This is the view when fully zoomed in on the new Baidu Maps feature. China’s biggest search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), is hosting its annual Baidu World event today, so new features are being dished...
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A New Co-working Space for Entrepreneurs in Bangkok
Here’s a fun feature from our friends over at Coconuts Bangkok describing a promising new co-working space for entrepreneurs and startups in Bangkok, Thailand. It’s called Hubba. For more details, I...
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Android Triumphs Against iOS in Southeast Asia Market
According to an Ericsson ConsumerLab report, via Tech Republic, Android is the predominant OS used by 31 percent of smartphone users living in Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, followed by...
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Thai Tech Round-Up [September 3, 2012]
We are back with another issue of the Thai tech round-up, courtesy of Thumbsup, this week focusing on a startup pitching event and an unusual new social network. Khun Seuk VS Samurai Click to enlarge...
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Startup Weekend Manila Is Coming To Town For The Third Time Around
Startup Weekend Manila is seeing its third incarnation on September 28 to 30, and the venue will be MINT College, McKinley Hill, Taguig City, where the previous SW Manila was held. Although the...
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Sina Weibo Testing New Ad Product Targeting Brands’ Fans
Sina Weibo’s advertising department has just announced on Weibo that it is currently testing a new ad product, called “Fans Headlines.” Fans Headlines ensures that the promoted message will be shown...
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APIs and Free Services: Baidu Gets Cozy With Developers
Li Ming Yuan, Baidu's Mobile and Cloud Business General Manager A busy day for the folks behind China’s most-used search engine. Baidu re-launched its mobile browser earlier today at its Baidu World...
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FluentFlix Wants to Take You to the Movies So You Can Learn Chinese
Online education is a fast-growing sector, and given China’s swift economic growth, a lot of people are interested in studying Chinese. But language study can be a long, hard slog. One startup has a...
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A Look at Asia’s New Gaming Stars at Tokyo Game Show 2012
The Tokyo Game Show, which has attracted more than 200,000 visitors in the last two years, has revealed the exhibitors for its new “Asia New Stars Area” for this September’s event. There will be four...
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Weird: Tencent Now Allows You to Close Your Weibo Account
The folks at TechWeb spotted that Tencent Weibo has silently inserted an option for users to close their accounts. However, only users who have used the account for more than six months are allowed to...
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Hello Kitty Tourism App Highlights Possibilities for Gamified Travel
So I’ve been enjoying a weekend vacation of sorts, having escaped Tokyo for a few days for a slightly slower pace down in Kyoto and Nara. And while I’ve been pretty much disconnected for the entire...
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Rumor: China Mobile Doesn’t Want to Be the Only 4G TD-LTE Network in China
China Mobile doesn't want to walk a lonely road this time around. China Mobile has had a rough time in China’s 3G era. The company’s TD-SCDMA network has gone nowhere, and allowed competitors China...
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China’s Formerly Intranet-Only Xinjiang Breaks 2 Million Broadband Users, 70%...
China News Service announced yesterday that Xinjiang, China’s massive western province, has reached 2 million broadband users, and 70 percent broadband coverage across the regions administrative...
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Tencent Partners with CNNIC to Offer Unique .CN User Domains
Chinese tech giant Tencent came out with a rather surprising announcement yesterday: thanks to a partnership with CNNIC, Tencent QQ users will be able to bind their QQ accounts to their own personal...
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SanRenXing is an Education Platform That Now Looks a Lot Like Weibo
If you don’t have kids who go to school in China, you might not be aware of SanRenXing. I wasn’t. Spinning the wheel of Chinese startups, I came across it by chance and was attracted by the name. San...
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YCard Manages Your Stack of Business Cards, Works Awesome
Regardless how digital the world has become today, business cards are still an essential tool for any business setting. At our last Startup Asia Jakarta conference, I collected at least 300 business...
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China’s Baidu, Tencent Rank High on Forbes ’100 Most Innovative Companies’ List
Photo: jp.techcrunch.com Forbes has announced its list of the world’s 100 most innovative companies, and at first glance there are a number of big surprises. Looking past Salesforce, which took the top...
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Yahoo Boosts Social Activism, Launches “Internet for Good” Awards
Yahoo and Public Affairs Asia have launched the Yahoo Gold Standard Internet for Good Awards, which recognizes excellence in internet usage by organizations or individuals in promoting a charity,...
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Disruption of Travel: Why Indian Startups are Creating Global Waves
Sangeet Paul Choudary writes regularly on strategies for online two-sided markets: platforms, marketplaces, and communities, at platformed.info and works closely with startups in these spaces in India,...
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