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JFDI: The Frog’s Story, Secret Sauce, and Challenges

JFDI, which stands for the Joyful Frog Digital Incubator, is an accelerator program in Singapore tha...

By Willis Wee

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  • April 30, 2013
  • at 1:00 pm
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Line Targets Kids With Toy Smartphone (PICS)

Together with Takaratomy, the popular mobile chat application is targeting kids with its upcoming Li...

By Willis Wee

  • 0
  • April 29, 2013
  • at 7:51 pm
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MapmyIndia Now Covers Over 10 Million Locations, 600,000 Villages, and 4,700 Cities in India

MapmyIndia shared that it now covers 10.33 million places, 1.9 million kilometers of roads, 600,000 ...

By Willis Wee

  • 0
  • April 29, 2013
  • at 5:20 pm
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Tight-Lipped Tokobagus Continues To Grow Strongly

Tokobagus continues to grow under the management of Michal Klar.

By Willis Wee

  • 2
  • April 29, 2013
  • at 2:51 pm
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Instapps Builds Stores For Merchants on Facebook

Made in Malaysia, Instapps helps merchants to set up an online storefront within their Facebook page...

By Willis Wee

  • 0
  • April 29, 2013
  • at 11:00 am
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Foxconn Has No Plans To Make Apple Products in New Indonesia Factory

Foxconn has no plan to export phones from Indonesia and will not make Apple products there.

By Willis Wee

  • 0
  • April 26, 2013
  • at 7:55 pm
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E-Commerce Marketplace Multiply to Shut Down

We’ve received news from several readers that social network turned e-commerce marketplace Multipl...

By Willis Wee

  • 3
  • April 26, 2013
  • at 4:24 pm
Rakuten Indonesia site closing if MNC split rumor is true

1 Month After Reported MNC Split, Rakuten Issues Statement About Commitment to Indonesia

Nikkei first broke the news last month that the joint venture between MNC and Rakuten (JSD:4755) is ...

By Willis Wee

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  • April 25, 2013
  • at 11:23 am

GREE’s Founder Sees Stake Dip to $1.4 Billion Valuation: Can It Fight Back?

What goes up must come down and that unfortunately is happening to GREE

By Willis Wee

  • 0
  • April 24, 2013
  • at 9:38 am
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Scoop Raises $2.4 Million from Indonesian Media Giant Kompas Gramedia

Magazine and e-book reader app Scoop has raised S$3 million ($2.4 million) from PT Gramedia Digital,...

By Willis Wee

  • 3
  • April 24, 2013
  • at 9:00 am
Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba, talks piracy in China

E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Works With Chinese Government to Bring Down Piracy in China

China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba is working with five Chinese government agencies to fight piracy ...

By Willis Wee

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  • April 23, 2013
  • at 9:43 pm
FoodPanda Asia

Foodpanda: Rocket Internet’s Play At Food Delivery in Asia

Rocket Internet’s online food delivery website, Foodpanda, was launched last year in April and...

By Willis Wee

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  • April 22, 2013
  • at 10:39 pm
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Dreamdays Tracks the Dates and Events That Matter

Built by the Guxiu team of three in Beijing, China, Dreamdays helps users remember and be alerted of...

By Willis Wee

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  • April 22, 2013
  • at 10:00 am
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Beijing Startup Makes Invisible Masks To Protect You From Air Pollution

If you’ve been to Beijing, you know the air sucks. Many folks wear masks to protect themselves fro...

By Willis Wee

  • 5
  • April 19, 2013
  • at 3:30 pm
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Food App Burpple Featured in 14 Countries in Apple App Store

Singapore-made food app Burpple was featured on the front page across 14 countries in Apple’s App ...

By Willis Wee

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  • April 18, 2013
  • at 9:08 pm
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Startup Asia Singapore 2013 In An Infographic

Startup Asia Singapore 2013 summarized in a sweet looking infographic designed by the good folks at ...

By Willis Wee

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  • April 18, 2013
  • at 9:58 am