Amazon Rumored to be Starting Kindle Pre-Orders in China Tomorrow
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) launched its e-bookstore and e-reading apps in China last December, but there&#...
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Baidu-Backed Travel Site Qunar Reportedly Gets $57 Million Funding Round
Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) invested $306 million in Qunar back in the summer of 2011 ...
LocalRoam: Another Player in the Group Buying Field in the Philippines
LocalRoam is a Philippine-based group buying website. Pretty much like the more popular MetroDeal Ma...
Qoo10 Singapore Hits 900,000 Members, Transacting $73 Million in Sales in 2012
Qoo10 revealed that in 2012, its Singapore operations transacted US$73 million in sales. It has a to...
Pombai Gives Thai Travelers a Bus Ticket to Ride
Next up at Startup Arena is Pombai, a Bangkok-based startup that provides transport companies with a...
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...
Lots of Buttons Still Offers an Astonishing Number of Buttons
Regular Tech In Asia readers and craft enthusiasts might already be familiar with Hong Kong based Lo...
Coffee Chat: What Rakuten Taught Me After We Got Acquired (Live Blog)
Currently onstage now is the founder of Thailand’s e-commerce site Tarad.com, Pawoot Pongvitayapan...
Alibaba Brings Mobile OS to 6 New Phones, But No Big-Name Brands in Sight
After the kerfuffle between Alibaba and Google last summer over an Acer-made phone for Alibaba’...
Jingdong Picks Up E-Banking Domain, Moving Towards New Online Payment Platform?
Chinese e-commerce giant 360Buy — which I suppose I ought to be calling Jingdong now — q...
New Chinese E-Store Caters to Expats in China, Supports Payments in Bitcoin
With China’s e-commerce market set to be worth at least $175 billion this year, it’s a m...
In a Challenge to Groupon, Alibaba Takes Daily Deals to Hong Kong and Taiwan
China’s top e-commerce player, Alibaba, also runs the nation’s leading daily deals site. Run und...
Cosmetics E-Commerce Site Luxola Raises Series A Funding from GREE Ventures
Singapore-based cosmetic and skincare e-commerce startup Luxola announces today that it has received...
Interview: Airbnb’s Plans in Southeast Asia (Live Blog)
We’ve seen US-based vacation home rentals site Airbnb pushing into Southeast Asia recently, so...
Women in Startups: Why We Need Them, and Why You Should Care (Live Blog)
Following up, we have an all-woman discussion panel on female entreprenurship featuring the followin...
Rakuten Branches Out to Asia (Live Blog)
Shin Hasegawa, assistant CMO and head of Asia marketing at Rakuten (JSD:4755), is onstage now to dis...
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