Posts Categorized: Asia


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Japanese Programmer Community ‘Qiita’ Passes 10,000 Users

Qiita, an online programmer community for programmers in Japan, has just surpassed the 10,000 regist...

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  • December 4, 2012
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China’s Priciest Wine E-Commerce Site Launches, Aims at $50M in 1st Year Sales

China’s wealthiest wine connoisseurs now have another option when trying to source the very be...

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  • December 4, 2012
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The Impact of Vietnam’s Fallen Group Buying Star

Although Nhom Mua, Vietnam’s leading group-buying site, is finally back online, the news of its in...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Singapore’s Cliquefund Takes a Different Approach to Crowdfunding

We recently wrote about Social Innovations Camp Asia, which was help in Kuala Lumpur last month. The...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Google Looks to Asia for the “Next Billion” Web Users

With developed nations close to the saturation point in terms of web users, Google is looking to Asi...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Multiply to Relaunch in 2013 as 100% E-Commerce Site After Total Blog Platform Shutdown

Earlier this year Multiply made the big decision to transform and dedicate the site entirely to e-co...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Papa is a Very Vocal Photo-Sharing App, Wants to be ‘Instagram With Voice’

What comes after Instagram? What’s the next social sharing niche? A number of startups think t...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Golden Gate Ventures Partners with JFDI Incubator for Mentoring, Fast-Tracked Seed Funding

The Singapore-based JFDI accelerator program just got even more useful – and potentially lucra...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Risk of US-Traded Chinese Tech Stocks Being Delisted as SEC Probes Accounting Firms

The US SEC dropped a bombshell last night, saying that it is beginning “administrative proceed...

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  • December 4, 2012
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Google Japan Helps Politicians Connect With Public As Elections Approach

The folks over on RocketNews24 point out that Google Japan has an online initiative set up to help c...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Indonesian-Made ‘Soccer Ticker’ App Wins Blackberry JamHack Asia

The final round of this year’s Blackberry JamHack Asia wrapped up on Friday. The two-day event in ...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Lumia 920 and 820 Now Available for Pre-Order in Indonesia

The latest Windows Phone 8 handsets from Nokia, the Lumia 920 and 820, are now available for pre-ord...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Why Has India Failed To Produce Tech Giants Like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter?

This question originally appeared on Quora. The answers that follow were provided by users Joydeep S...

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  • December 3, 2012
  • at 6:30 pm
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China’s Taobao and Tmall Top 1 Trillion RMB ($159 Billion) in Sales So Far This Year

China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba, has just announced that two of its sites, Taobao ...

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  • December 3, 2012
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After Acquisition by Groupon Australia, Crowdmass Co-founders Embark on New Venture, Venuemob

We’ve mentioned Venuemob a lot in our Australia startup news, but never got a chance to really del...

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  • December 3, 2012
  • at 12:42 pm
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7 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week

Is Cisco a snake in the grass? Is Sina Weibo trying to kill off LinkedIn in China? Are Chinese mobil...

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  • December 2, 2012
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