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China’s Renren and DCM Join in SoFi Series B Funding
US-based Social Finance (SoFi) today announced that it has raised $77.2 million in series B funding led by Baseline Ventures and joined by DCM and Renren (NYSE: RENN), China’s largest Facebook-esque...
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Xiaomi’s Success in 7 Chinese Characters
The China Internet Conference (Day 2) kicked off in Beijing this morning with Lei Jun, the founder and boss of Xiaomi, the upstart phone-maker. He was sharing specs and highlighting what’s awesome...
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The Story Behind Renren, China’s Facebook-ish Social Network
Renren, China’s largest Facebook-ish social network, has a long and complex history which probably not more than a handful of people have heard about in detail. I was lucky enough to have the chance...
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E-Counting System Lacking Volunteers Ahead of Jakarta’s Governor Election
We previously wrote about FeD Jakarta, an NGO that tried to provide an e-counting system for the upcoming second round of Jakarta’s governor election. However, The Jakarta Globe recently reported that...
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GREE Acquires Another US-based Mobile Games Developer
Japanese social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) has announced today that it has acquired San Francisco-based mobile game company App Ant. App Ant is the game developer behind Dino Life, which GREE...
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Find Unique Travel Experiences With Local Guides Using Meetrip
While traveling can be lots of fun, some aspects of it can be quite mundane. Buying guide books and looking up “popular restaurants” using Google – we all end up going to the same places. The rise of...
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Baidu’s Digital Patriotism Looks Like Corporate Suicide for Overseas...
The disputed islands as they appear now on baodiao.baidu.com, a special Baidu page for pinning a flag on the rocky outposts. Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China’s biggest search engine, has engaged in a...
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Faunia Rancher: The INAICTA Winner Who Knows How to Raise a Monster
Photo: itunes.apple.com This is not an ordinary ranch. Faunia Rancher is a game that’ll take you on a journey full of fairies and monsters. But the gremlins are actually cute. You can even meet an...
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Nano SIM Cards to be Ready in October in Indonesia?
According to Detik yesterday, it has been confirmed that three official telecommunication partners of Apple in Indonesia [1] will be ready with the nano SIM cards when the iPhone 5 arrives in the...
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Chinese Developers and Advertisers Protest New Mobile Ad Blocker
Kingsoft shows off the app-by-app settings for mobile ad-blocking in its controversial SafeApp. Ad-blocking might be routine for some people on laptops and desktop computers, but a new way to block...
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Dycode Holds First iOS 6 Training Event in Asia
Only three days after the worldwide announcement of the iPhone 5, software developer Dycode [1] together with Indonesian Apple news blog MakeMac [2] as a media partner, held Asia’s first ever iOS 6...
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Cloud Conference to be Hosted in Jakarta, September 27
Ahmad Fathi Hadi, the founder of cloud man-power solution Tandif, told us that together with cloud companies Softlayer and RightScale, they will organize a cloud conference hosted in Jakarta. The...
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Artiste Connect: A Crowdfunding Site for Creative Filipinos
Passion, passion, passion. We all have passions and a dream to make it big, but sometimes we don’t know which way is up — and well, we don’t know where to get the funds. Thankfully, in the Philippines...
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WeChat App Aims at Social, Cash-Less Mobile Payments in China
The Tenpay app for iOS. The world’s biggest messaging app, WeChat, is getting support for mobile payments in China thanks to its parent company, Tencent (HKG:0700). The expanded capability of the...
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The Red Herring Awards Scam
(Image: brooketrout.com) This past weekend, we’ve received a lot of emails from startups proudly telling us that they won the Red Herring Awards. Sure, Red Herring was an award brand name to be proud...
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Smoothboard Air: Mirrored Display to Multiple Mobile Devices in the Classroom
A startup in Singapore has developed an intriguing software solution that enables collaboration on multiple mobile devices. Smoothboard Air is a new product from Smoothboard Tech, which launched its...
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Tech in Asia’s First Road Trip [Report]
We announced our first road trip almost three weeks ago. It was an exhausting trip, but totally worth every drop of sweat and any money spent. We had more than 500 registered participants, with...
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Mixi’s Starts Subscription Fashion Service ‘Petite Jeté,’ 4200 Yen/Month,...
The September collection, from Petite Jeté Mixi (TYO:2121) has finally launched its Petite Jeté subscription-based, fashion e-commerce service in Japan, which it teased about a month ago. And we now...
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Microsoft’s $300,000 Grants Kicks Off ICT Training for 20,000 Young...
The youth unemployment rate in Asia is an important matter for all generations. The International Labor Organization has released a study entitled “Global Employment Outlook: Bleak Labour Market...
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China’s Alibaba Hands Over $7.6 Billion to Yahoo For Share Buyback, Financing...
You know how painful it is to make a huge payment that seems to empty your pockets and your bank balance? Perhaps that’s how the folks at Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce company, feel today having...
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