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Game Developers Challenge Chinese National Team to High-Stakes Soccer Match

China’s national men’s soccer team — yes, I called it soccer, get over it — is not having a great month. The team, w...

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  • June 20, 2013
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mLab East Asia Preps the Last Hackathon for June in Vietnam

mLab East Asia Preps the Last Hackathon for June in Vietnam

The third and final hackathon in Vietnam is being put on by Unicef, mLab, and the World Bank. Focused mainly on the theme of innovation for ...

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Dolphin Browser Hits 80 Million Installs, Refreshes Android App to v10

Sino-US startup Dolphin Browser has reached 80 million installs around the world for its iOS and Android browser. Today, Dolphin is also bei...

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  • June 19, 2013
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eBay and HomeShop18 Add Food and Groceries For Indian Customers

In an eerie bit of coincidental timing, both eBay India and homegrown e-commerce site HomeShop18 have added food and groceries to their prod...

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  • June 19, 2013
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Digital Music Sales in China Hit $75 Million (No, We Didn’t Miss Any Numbers)

Digital music revenues are on the rise in China – albeit very slowly, and to a not very impressive level. According to figures from mu...

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  • June 19, 2013
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Squar, Myanmar’s First Homegrown Social Network Wants to Beat Facebook

Squar is entering the wild west of Myanmar to trailblaze the nascent internet scene. Here's what they're up to.

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  • June 19, 2013
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Fab’s $150M Backers Include Tencent and Itochu, Plans to Launch in China and Maybe Japan

American design-oriented e-commerce site Fab has just raised $150 million in the first part of its series D funding. For us, the most intere...

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  • June 19, 2013
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Yummy! 6 Popular Online Food Delivery Startups in India

Online food delivery service is a growing industry in India as we’ve seen quite a few players making their mark in that space. Here we loo...

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  • June 19, 2013
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Lazada Raises $100 Million, Now Has Nearly a Quarter of a Billion Dollars to Grow E-Commerce Empire

Lazada’s $100 million round today – this is the fifth official major injection of capital – comes courtesy of existing investors Holtz...

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  • June 20, 2013
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Baidu Antivirus Launched, Qihoo 360 Facing Increased Competition in Web and Mobile Security

On Tuesday, Baidu finally publicly launched what many have interpreted as the latest salvo in the company’s ongoing battle with Qihoo ...

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  • June 20, 2013
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Why Israel is a Startup Nation

Dubbed as The Startup Nation, Israel outweighs the United States in venture capital investment per person, totaling $170 per person compared...

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  • June 19, 2013
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Chinese food app

Chinese Foodie App AiMeiWei Cooks Up $2 Million in Funding

Call us gluttons, but we love food and foodie apps. And there’s certainly no shortage of either those things in China. One such app is...

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  • June 19, 2013
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Australia’s OneFlare Raises $500,000, Will Launch in Singapore in 2014

Local services listings startup OneFlare revealed today that it has raised $500,000 from three Australian angel investors: Les Szekely from ...

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  • June 19, 2013
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With 64 Million Monthly Facebook Users in Indonesia, Is it Opening an Office Soon?

Indonesia has been in the top five countries in terms of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) users for quite a while, and we’ve been hearing rumors that ...

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Spying or No, China is Stuck With American Technology

Spying or No, China is Stuck With American Technology

Early today, we wrote about allegations in the Chinese press that Cisco has been working with the NSA to help the US spy on China. And needl...

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  • June 19, 2013
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Gaming Madness in China: Bad Students and Worse Government Officials

With China’s massive Gaokao college entrance exam just having wrapped up, it’s no surprise that we’ve got a couple student...

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  • June 19, 2013
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