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Didi Nugrahadi of Detik.com, SalingSilang on Entrepreneurship in Indonesia [LIVE BLOG]

As one of the early morning sessions for our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 event on Thursday morning, Jo...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 7, 2012
  • at 12:14 pm
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NHN’s Line App Passes 40 Million Users in 1 Year, Looks to Grow as Platform

NHN Japan has announced today that it has passed yet another impressive user milestone, now with 40 ...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 6, 2012
  • at 8:00 pm
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Andy Zain’s 5 Tips for Surviving in Indonesia’s Mobile Market

Leading up to our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 event, we attended a networking event where we were luck...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 6, 2012
  • at 11:30 am
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DeNA Continues China Push, Partners with Renren on Mobile Games

Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) is announcing today that it is allying with Chinese soc...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 5, 2012
  • at 4:25 pm
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‘Rage of Bahamut’ for iOS Rising Steadily in Top Grossing App Charts

A few weeks back we told you about how Cygames Rage of Bahamut had become the top grossing Android a...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 5, 2012
  • at 12:10 pm
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InMobi Wants to Dominate Mobile Advertising in China by Year’s End

According to a report from China Daily, India-based mobile advertising company InMobi intends to be ...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 4, 2012
  • at 9:00 pm
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Serkan Toto on Why Japanese Social Gaming Giants Monetize Better

Serkan Toto, expert on social mobile gaming in Japan, has been kind enough to share with us a presen...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 4, 2012
  • at 5:40 pm
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New Details About Wii U from Nintendo Just Before E3

In a pre-E3 announcement, Nintendo (TYO:7974) has unveiled some new details about its upcoming Wii U...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 4, 2012
  • at 3:42 pm
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5 Asian Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week

As we gear up for our Startup Asia Jakarta this week in Indonesia, we’ve been keeping an eye on st...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 3, 2012
  • at 9:55 pm
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Japan’s GREE Gears Up For E3, After a Shaky Month at Home

Our readers may recall that last year’s Tokyo Game Show was a coming out party of sorts for GR...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 1, 2012
  • at 10:01 pm
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Create and Share Photo Stories with Mooklet

We’ve written quite a bit about Japanese photo sharing apps recently. And I’ve just had ...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 1, 2012
  • at 9:00 pm
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Japan’s SnapDish Now Available Worldwide for Android

We’ve been keeping an eye on Japanese photo-app startup SnapDish (www.snapdi.sh) for some time...

By Rick Martin

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  • June 1, 2012
  • at 3:20 pm
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See Docomo’s Transparent Dual-Touchscreen Android Phone Prototype [Video]

Here’s a great video demo of a smartphone prototype from NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) which has a see...

By Rick Martin

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  • May 31, 2012
  • at 5:00 pm
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Amazon’s Fixed Rate SIM Card Released in Japan Today

A Nikkei report on Monday claimed that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) was about to sell prepaid 500 MB SIM car...

By Rick Martin

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  • May 31, 2012
  • at 1:30 pm
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Nintendo Says Japanese Authorities Have Arrested Alleged Game Pirate

According to Nintendo (TYO:7974), Japanese authorities in Aichi prefecture have arrested a ‘ma...

By Rick Martin

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  • May 31, 2012
  • at 11:30 am
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Nintendo’s Iconic Game Characters Given New Life in Traditional Ukiyo Art Style

So here’s a really fun art project we stumbled across this evening. Artist Jed Henry has been ...

By Rick Martin

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  • May 30, 2012
  • at 10:00 pm