11 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
It has been a pretty busy week in the China technology space, with lots of activity from the big pla...
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for Story of the Week [Jan. 26]
How was your week? Fun week? Big week? As usual our week was pretty busy trying to stay on top of al...
By Rick Martin
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- January 26, 2013
- at 1:00 pm
Uber-Cute Photo App ‘Camely’ Tops 400,000 Downloads in Japan, Adds Valentine’s Day Stamps
We’ve featured lots of fun photo apps from Japan in the past, and here’s another one tha...
By Rick Martin
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- January 25, 2013
- at 4:40 pm
Growing Faster than Facebook and Twitter: Key Highlights for Japan’s Line App [Infographic]
Now boasting more than 100 million users on its Line mobile chat app, NHN Japan has released an info...
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- January 25, 2013
- at 12:00 pm
NHN Japan’s Casual Games Continue to Kill it on Line
More milestones for NHN Japan and its Line chat app, which is continuing to prove its worth as a gam...
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- January 24, 2013
- at 8:00 pm
GREE Officially Releases NFL Shuffle, Still Not Ready For Prime Time [Update: Now it's ready!]
Today GREE (TYO:3632) announced that it is officially releasing its NFL-branded card battle game for...
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- January 24, 2013
- at 5:40 pm
Fab Cafe in Tokyo Preps Sweet 3D Printing Workshop in Time for Valentine’s Day
We’ve had a few fun 3D printing stories over the past few weeks. You may recall this 3D printi...
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- January 24, 2013
- at 12:00 pm
Videogram Gets HTML5 Improvements, Native Apps Coming Soon
Back in December we got word that Cinemacraft had raised a new round of funding. Its Videogram servi...
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- January 23, 2013
- at 8:30 pm
Viss App Makes it Easier for Fashionistas to Buy
Last fall we told you about Hong Kong-based startup Viss (www.viss.me), which encourages its users t...
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- January 23, 2013
- at 2:30 pm
Gung Ho’s ‘Puzzles & Dragons’ Picking Up Steam in Korea
Yesterday I highlighted Gung Ho Entertainment’s (JASDAQ:3765) Princess Punt Sweets, a mobile g...
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- January 23, 2013
- at 10:40 am
Gung Ho’s ‘Princess Punt Sweets’ Has a Million Downloads in Japan
Last week I mentioned a fun new Japanese mobile game called Princess Punt Sweets, from developer Gun...
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- January 22, 2013
- at 5:00 pm
China Blocks Social Coding Site Github
Chinese developers are waking up to a little bad news this morning, as it looks like social coding p...
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- January 22, 2013
- at 7:20 am
Close all the Things! Mixi To Shut Smartphone Virtual World, Subscription E-Commerce Service
With Facebook still on the rise in Japan, things are only going to get tougher for domestic social n...
By Rick Martin
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- January 21, 2013
- at 10:00 pm
Crowdonomic: Singapore’s Startup Scene to be Strengthened by the Power of the Crowd
We’ve written many times about how Singapore is a great place to do business, with lots of sup...
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- January 21, 2013
- at 7:20 pm
Battle Cats Have Almost Conquered Google Play in Japan
I’ve been raving about Japanese tower defense game Battle Cats ever since it first came out fo...
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- January 21, 2013
- at 11:00 am
DeNA and Nexon Partner to Bring More Mobile Games to Mobage
Hot on the heels of last week’s rebranding announcement, Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432) has ann...
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- January 18, 2013
- at 4:00 pm