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Mitfahrenchina is a Horribly-Named, Buggy Carpool Service in China
Lord knows China has traffic problems. Getting from point A to point B can be a nightmare in almost any Chinese city if you try it at the wrong time of day, and if you’re really unlucky you could end...
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China’s MIIT Head Says 4G Not Coming Soon to China
Every day it seems like there’s conflicting news about when 4G is coming to China. China Mobile’s 4G TD-LTE network is clearly more or less ready to go, and they’ve been running it in Hong Kong since...
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Mobile Commerce in China Hits $1.8 Billion in Sales This Quarter
Yes, 95.7 percent of China’s e-commerce sales are made from PCs, but the number made on mobiles is growing fast. For 2012 Q2, iResearch estimates that 4.3 percent of such purchases will be made on...
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China’s Online Alcohol Sales to Reach $2 Billion in 2014, Might Need to Buy...
Well, that’s a lot of booze. Chinese consumers are expected to buy 13 billion RMB – a full $2 billion – in wines, beers, and spirits on the country’s specialist B2C alcohol e-tailers by 2014. That’s...
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China’s WeChat Hits 200 Million Users, Generates 700 Million LBS Activities...
Pony Ma, Core founder and CEO of Tencent. Image Credit: TechWeb Over at the China Internet Conference earlier today, Pony Ma, CEO and co-founder of Tencent (HKG:0700) took to the stage to talk about...
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Meet the Company That’s Building Asia’s Startup Database
I was lucky to have been recently introduced to the folks at Creww.me here in Tokyo [1]. The Japan-based company has some big goals, aiming to collect a database of startups in Japan and around the...
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Indonesian Telco Indosat Targets Cooperatives and SMEs
Indosat yesterday launched IT solutions targeting cooperatives and SMEs in Indonesia: CUG, i-Koperasi, and i-Customer Relationship Management (i-CRM). The company identified seven cities as its main...
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GREE Ventures Invests in Indonesian E-commerce Company Bukalapak
Center three, L to R: Kuan Hsu (GREE), Achmad Zaky (Bukalapak), Takeshi Ebihara (Batavia), We’re seeing a couple of reports today (from Daily Social and from NNA.asia) that GREE Ventures has invested...
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Alibaba: Investing $150+ Million a Year in Mobile OS to Beat Android, iOS
China’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba, launched its Aliyun mobile OS back in July of last year, bringing an entirely new mobile ecosystem into the crowded space that’s dominated by Android and...
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IndoTrading Plans to Emulate the Success of China’s Alibaba in Indonesia
Conducting business in any part of the world looks much easier as new technologies become available, and Indonesia is taking part in that revolution as people can now search more easily for SMEs in...
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Qihoo 360′s CEO Zhou Hongyi: Startups Should Build to Disrupt
The outspoken Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) CEO, Zhou Hongyi, has been taking part in a panel at the China Internet Conference here in Beijing this afternoon. While there are other speakers at the panel, all...
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Qihoo 360 Search Launching Open Platform, Ready to Use Google Ads
Yes, it’s Zhou Hongyi again. But there isn’t any war of words this time round. Earlier today at the China Internet Conference, the Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU) CEO was talking about the future – and a possible...
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Eat Seafood Without Feeling Guilty with WWF Indonesia’s New BlackBerry App
Ever thought that the food on your plate could put the environment in danger? Now you can have some peace of mind with your piece of cuttlefish thanks to this new app. Created by the World Wildlife...
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Canalys: China to Own Almost 50% of Smartphones in Asia Pacific by 2016
The latest report from analysts Canalys says that China is going to own almost 50 percent of the 594 million smartphones that are shipped in the Asia Pacific region in 2016. That number equates to...
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SI Camp Asia: Initiating Social Change Through Technology [Interview]
I’m a big fan of civic tech startups, or young companies with aspirations to use new technologies for public good. When a friend of mine in the US started using Google Analytics to help discover and...
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TanyaDok Gives Patients a Consultation Room with Doctors Without Borders
If you see the traffic jams in Indonesia’s big cities, then you might reconsider even going out at all. Doctor Gregorius Bimantoro considers this as one of many problems that makes Indonesians...
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Huawei Plans Its Own Mobile OS and Processors to Lessen Reliance on US Firms
Hands-on with the MediaPad 10 FHD. (Image: Techinasia.com staff) China’s Huawei is planning to develop its own mobile OS, according to none other than founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei. The telecoms firm...
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China’s First Microblog-Themed TV Show Debuts
How do you know when weibo — the Chinese word for microblog — has truly become a cultural phenomenon? When it gets its own TV drama. That’s exactly what’s happening right now, as Micro-blog Master...
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Zhou Hongyi: I Pledge to Pony Ma and Mao Zedong, Qihoo Won’t Do Instant...
Qihoo 360 is a company that makes a lot of people uncomfortable, in no small part because it has a reputation as ‘gangsterish’ thanks to its loudmouthed CEO Zhou Hongyi. And with 360 having just...
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Gaming News Website Andriasang.com to Close Down
Some sad news today for gaming fans out there, as Andriasang.com, a popular source of gaming news from Japan has announced that it is closing down. But thankfully, the site’s archives will remain...
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