Posts Categorized: Business


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Pitching For Over a Decade Before Finally Scoring Investment: Indonesia-Based SITTI’s Founder Shares His Story

During my stay in Jakarta, I met Andy Sjarif, the founder of three-year-old Indonesian startup SITTI...

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  • May 24, 2013
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LightInTheBox

China’s LightInTheBox Adjusts US IPO Plan, Now Seeks to Raise $100 Million

China’s first tech IPO of 2013 is still in the works as the global B2B e-commerce platform LightIn...

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  • May 24, 2013
  • at 11:00 am
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Neiman Marcus in China

US Luxury Retailer Neiman Marcus Closes China Warehouse, Changes Strategy

The century-old US luxury retailer Neiman Marcus launched in China very quietly late last year after...

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  • May 23, 2013
  • at 8:00 pm
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GREE China Shutdown Gets Uglier With Accusations of Denying Aid to Pregnant Employee

Last week, employees reported that Japanese social gaming giant GREE had just announced it was shutt...

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  • May 23, 2013
  • at 9:30 am
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How Startup UniPin Hopes to Solve Payment Hassles for Indonesian Gamers

How Startup UniPin Hopes to Solve Payment Hassles for Indonesian Gamers

UniPin is a four-year-old Indonesian payment startup that aims to make payment for online games easi...

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  • May 22, 2013
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As EU Investigates Huawei, is China Gearing Up to Retaliate?

Like I said last week, it never seems to be good news for Huawei and ZTE, does it? The companies alr...

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  • May 22, 2013
  • at 9:00 am
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FoodPanda Asia

Foodpanda Merges with Rival, Claims to be Biggest Food Delivery Site in Singapore

Food delivery site Foodpanda has been making headlines a lot recently. First with a $20 million fina...

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  • May 20, 2013
  • at 5:33 pm
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NetQin acquisition rumors

Baidu and Tencent Thought to be Vying to Acquire Mobile Antivirus Expert

Antivirus products and services have been a renewed battleground in China in the past couple of year...

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  • May 20, 2013
  • at 11:38 am
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Line app censors Chinese words

Discuss: Is Line Wrong to Censor Politically Sensitive Words in China?

Is Line wrong if it were to really censor politically sensitive words in China?

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  • May 24, 2013
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Tencent to Open Malaysia Office: Good News for Malaysian Startups?

Tencent to Open Malaysia Office: Good News for Malaysian Startups?

The overseas expansion of Chinese tech giant Tencent continues, following along with the success of ...

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  • May 24, 2013
  • at 12:08 am
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HTC One sales 2013

Amid an Exec Brain Drain, HTC Reassures Everyone That 5 Million ‘One’ Phones Sold So Far

Amid a stream of bad news about an executive brain drain at HTC (TPE:2498), the Taiwanese phone-make...

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  • May 23, 2013
  • at 6:33 pm
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Qihoo launches shopping search

Qihoo Works With Alibaba to Launch a Product Search Engine

Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU) already has a search engine and Alibaba already has a product search engine, so it...

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  • May 22, 2013
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Jack Ma Says He Doesn’t Give a Crap About Rival Jingdong or its CEO

Apparently retirement isn’t doing much to keep former Alibaba CEO Jack Ma out of the limelight...

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  • May 22, 2013
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Shanghai 4G

China Mobile Preps Biggest Ever 4G Trial in Shanghai

With China Mobile thought to be keen to launch its 4G network nationwide later this year, the behemo...

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  • May 20, 2013
  • at 10:37 pm
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Qihoo Q1 2013 financials

Qihoo Sees Record User Numbers (457 Million) But Falling Income in Q1

China’s Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU), a software maker and web portal turned search engine, has reported its ...

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  • May 20, 2013
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Samsung Galaxy S4 sales to hit 10 million in under 1 month

Samsung CEO Hails 10 Million Galaxy S4 Sales in 3 Weeks, Hints at 100 Million in Future

Samsung (005930:KS) co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun has today hailed the company’s new Galaxy S4 phone as it...

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  • May 17, 2013
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