Posts Categorized: Web



Expose Blasts Qihoo 360 as ‘Cancer of the Internet’; Qihoo Denies Everything

China’s Qihoo 360 has a lot of enemies. I’m not just talking about Baidu, either; lots o...

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  • March 1, 2013
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Google Play Now Sells E-Books in India

Android fans in India now have a new source for e-books. Today, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced that ...

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  • February 28, 2013
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Baidu Launches a Daily Deals Site (But Not for the First Time)

We tend to write about daily deals sites in China shutting down, not opening up. So this week’...

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  • February 28, 2013
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Trains Are the Social Networks of North Korea

North Korea is, to put it mildly, not a country where information flows easily. The web is tightly c...

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  • February 26, 2013
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Illegal E-Commerce: Buying Guns Online in China is Apparently Pretty Easy

Like many of our readers, I was intrigued by my colleague Enricko’s recent post on an Indonesi...

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  • February 26, 2013
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Duable Chinese Makes the Internet your Language-Learning Textbook

If you’re starting to learn Chinese today, you’re probably facing one of two big hurdles –...

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  • February 24, 2013
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Sina Weibo 450 million zombie users

Of Sina Weibo’s 500 Million Registered Users, Are 90% Actually Zombies?

As we explained way back in 2011, if someone wants to boost their popularity on Sina Weibo, they can...

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  • February 22, 2013
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CareerBuilder Acquires VON to Expand Job Recruitment in Vietnam

CareerBuilder (NYSE:GCI), one of the largest American job and recruitment companies, is acquiring Vi...

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  • February 21, 2013
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European Football Clubs Have 15.6 Million Weibo Followers as They Battle For Chinese Fans [INFOGRAPHIC]

Football lovers might want to take a look at Mailman Group’s latest study about Chinese social med...

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  • February 28, 2013
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How the Great Firewall of China Works [INFOGRAPHIC]

China’s Great Firewall is widely reviled (and with good reason), but how it actually works isn...

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  • February 28, 2013
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Vietnamese Developer FPT To Open An Office in Myanmar

It seems everybody is jumping on the Myanmar bandwagon. FPT, arguably Vietnam’s largest softwa...

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  • February 26, 2013
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Chinese Teen Tries to Murder Entire Family for Restricting His Internet Access

We here at Tech in Asia love the internet as much as anyone. In fact, we probably love it more than ...

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  • February 26, 2013
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Startups: If You’re Going to Copy, You Have to Do it Better Than This [UPDATED]

We write a fair amount about copycats — see this story from early last week, for example ̵...

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  • February 25, 2013
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Vietnam’s Not Done With The Harlem Shake Meme Yet [VIDEO]

Steven already covered the growing Harlem Shake trend in China, but let me tell you it’s getti...

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  • February 22, 2013
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Baidu’s $15 Million Lawsuit Against Qihoo 360 Headed to Court [UPDATED]

It’s no secret that Baidu and Qihoo 360 aren’t friends. So it likely shouldn’t com...

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  • February 22, 2013
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‘Link Hay’ Digs Digg’s Style: The Story Of Vietnam’s Top Social News Site

Today, Vietnam’s online landscape is dominated by forums and social media. In Vietnam, the pla...

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  • February 21, 2013
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