Posts Categorized: Asia



Cambodia’s Puddding Helps Women Crowd-Source the Perfect Pair of Jeans

The battle between “thigh and denim” ends today, apparently. Founder Janice Wilson’...

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  • April 5, 2013
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Coffee Chat: How E-commerce King Taobao is Expanding Out of China (Live Blog)

Up next on stage at Startup Asia is Daphne Lee, director of international business for Chinese e-com...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 2:51 pm
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Sharing Session: An Introduction to Indonesia’s Startup Ecosystem (Live Blog)

Onto the next sharing session, we have Indonesia’s Andy Zain to share about his country’...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 12:52 pm
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Coffee Chat: KakaoTalk’s Growth From Startup (Live Blog)

Next up on stage, Sirgoo Lee. He’s the Co-CEO of popular South Korea social messaging applicat...

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  • April 4, 2013
  • at 11:58 am
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Understanding Neighbouring Markets with Mike, Mimee and Reza

This evening, we are pleased to have a panel of distinguished guests from Indonesia, Thailand and Vi...

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  • April 3, 2013
  • at 7:55 pm
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Looking for Opportunities in Southeast Asia? BillPin Co-Founder Shares His View (Startup Asia Preview)

We’re less than 24 hours away from the event, and the Tech in Asia team is all gearing up to usher...

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  • April 3, 2013
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VNG Steps Up Microblogging In Vietnam With Launch of Zini

VNG just released Zini.vn at midnight March 30th. It’s a new project that has been in secret s...

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  • April 1, 2013
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Vietnam’s 3 Separate Tech Worlds Need to Get Together: Electronics, Outsourcing, Startups

In Silicon Valley, techcooperation is everywhere. Hardware firms, software companies, and startups o...

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  • March 28, 2013
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Coffee Chat: MetroDeal – How to Build $18 Million Annual Revenue at Age 26 (Live Blog)

Next, for what promises to be a most entertaining session, Ralph Wunsch, founder of the Groupon-esqu...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 3:44 pm
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Coffee Chat: The Nuffnang Founders’ Story and The Lessons They Learned

Most bloggers in Singapore would have probably heard of Nuffnang. But little do we know that the co-...

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  • April 5, 2013
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KakaoTalk Reveals $45 Million Revenue, $7 Million Profit

Kakao co-CEO Sirgoo Lee revealed that KakaoTalk made $7 million in profit in 2012, from revenue of $...

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  • April 4, 2013
  • at 1:03 pm
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Coffee Chat: Twitter’s Future in Southeast Asia (Live Blog)

Aliza Knox, Managing Director of Online Sales at Twitter, takes stage at Startup Asia 2013 to talk T...

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  • April 4, 2013
  • at 10:21 am
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Misuse Allegation Throws Indonesia’s Rural Internet Penetration Scheme into Question

Though being the third largest democratic country in the world, corruption is still quite big in Ind...

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  • April 3, 2013
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Fearing Chat Apps, Vietnam’s Telcos Hike Prices

Across the region, telcos are in a quandary as to how to deal with chat apps like Line, Whatsapp, an...

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  • April 3, 2013
  • at 11:40 am
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12 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye

We hope you’re loving our new site makeover! As always, here’s our weekly list featuring a bunch...

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  • March 31, 2013
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9 Startup Pitches at Ideosource’s Demo Day

Ideosource, a venture capital firm in Indonesia, organized a demo day yesterday to showcase five gra...

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  • March 28, 2013
  • at 11:33 am
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