Posts Categorized: Social Media


CTW - China tech news this week

7 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week

With spring now in full flow here in China, new tech news developments bloomed as quickly as plum bl...

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  • April 14, 2013
  • at 2:30 pm
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sina weibo thailand

Sina Weibo in Thailand: Way Too Little, Way Too Late

Last Friday, Sina Weibo quietly announced that it would be entering Thailand thanks to a partnership...

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  • April 13, 2013
  • at 9:00 am
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WeChat Outage

WeChat Experiences Short Service Outage, Blames Hardware Problems as Users Complain

Tencent’s WeChat has gotten very big in China (and pretty big outside China, too). But even a ...

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  • April 11, 2013
  • at 8:00 am
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geeky-vietnam-recruitment

Geeky Uses Puzzles To Filter and Recruit Smart Engineers in Vietnam

Finding good and great engineers for your company is a tedious and unsure process. Google and Micros...

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  • April 9, 2013
  • at 10:00 pm
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Qlubbr app

Qlubbr is the Nightlife App for Singapore’s Party People

Here’s an app definitely not designed for me: a new social nightlife app called Qlubbr. Made b...

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  • April 8, 2013
  • at 9:00 pm
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wechat fees

Official: WeChat Will “Definitely” Have to Pay Fees in China

The battle has been raging for several months now over how Chinese telecoms should be compensated, i...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 11:52 pm
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Tell My Friends legal MP3s

Tell My Friends Wants Music Fans to Profit From Sharing Legal MP3s

Singapore-based Tell My Friends is one of the more established young tech companies on our newest St...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 5:12 pm
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China’s Net Users Can’t Help But Laugh at North Korea’s Warmongering

North Korea has been in the news a lot recently, both because it keeps getting hacked and because it...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 1:04 am
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Asia tech news this week

Staff Picks: 9 Top News Stories this Week in Tech in Asia

Money, murder, manga, and several other things that regrettably do not begin with “m” do...

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  • April 13, 2013
  • at 5:00 pm
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kakaopage

Kakao Launches KakaoPage, a Marketplace for Anyone to Publish Digital Content

l KakaoPage marketplace was launched just two days ago with over 500 individual and corporate publis...

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  • April 11, 2013
  • at 10:32 pm
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Batdongsan

Batdongsan: Vietnam’s Number One Real Estate Listings Website

The real estate market in Vietnam is a bubble. It’s long been known to be among the top 20 most ex...

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  • April 10, 2013
  • at 9:00 pm
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WeChat gaming platform

A Sneak Peek at Some Games on WeChat’s Social Gaming Platform

As confirmed by Tencent (HKG:0700) during its most recent earnings call, a WeChat social gaming plat...

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  • April 9, 2013
  • at 3:15 pm
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vng-zing-video

VNG Shutters Zing Video To Sidestep a Battle with Youtube

On the Alexa traffic rank, Zing Video is the fifth highest ranked site in Vietnam. But that number p...

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  • April 8, 2013
  • at 4:00 pm
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PixBento iPhone app

PixBento: Facebook Albums Suck, We’re Going to Do Photo Sharing the Right Way

Quite a few startups are trying – or have tried and failed – to crack the first-world pr...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 5:45 pm
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SocialAgent

SocialAgent Helps Make Sense of Business on Chinese Social Media

SocialAgent.me is an online lead generation tool to help businesses find leads in the Chinese market...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 5:03 pm
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ZocialInc is Aggregating All the Most Relevant Social Media Data into One Place

Today, there is an overwhelming social media landscape that’s terribly hard to wrap our heads arou...

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  • April 4, 2013
  • at 6:00 pm
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