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CocCoc Pursues Search In Vietnam With A Mathematician’s Hat

CocCoc Pursues Search In Vietnam With A Mathematician’s Hat (VIDEO)

Last month, we had the privilege of having Victor Lavrenko from CocCoc out our Meetup in Ho Chi Minh city to talk to us about the startup se...

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  • June 3, 2013
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E-Commerce Sales in Vietnam Hit $700 Million, Will Reach $1.3 Billion By 2015

Last week, we missed an interesting bit of news concerning Vietnam’s e-commerce scene, so we thought we’d take a closer look. The latest...

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  • June 3, 2013
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Dell and Intel, Big Data Innovation Center in Singapore

Dell and Intel Start Number Crunching, Open Big Data Innovation Center in Singapore

Singapore has long been an Asian hub for data centers, but now the next big data-driven industry – aptly called ‘big data’ –...

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What to Expect on June 4, China’s Unofficial and Orwellian ‘Internet Maintenance Day’

Every website goes down every now and then for maintenance, upgrades, or just because something has gone wrong on the server. But in China, ...

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  • June 3, 2013
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Shopdeca is a Fashionable New E-Store for Indonesia, Launches with East Ventures Funding

A new clothing e-commerce site launches today in Indonesia in the fashionable form of Shopdeca. Selling men’s and women’s fashion, plus ...

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  • June 3, 2013
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6 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week

Let’s check out China’s tech news this week. As always, the huge country has got tons of interesting growth news like UCWeb and ...

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  • June 2, 2013
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Star Publication To Acquire 90% Stake in Ocision for $4.36 Million

Malaysian media giant Star Publication has agreed to acquire 90 percent of the startup Ocision, which runs Airbnb-like service iBilik, prope...

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  • June 1, 2013
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Pirate3D Buccaneer 3D printer

Singapore-made 3D Printer Sees Over $300,000 Pledged on Kickstarter After Day One

On just day one of the Kickstarter project, Singaporean 3D printer startup Pirate3D saw overwhelming support with backers flocking to pledge...

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  • June 1, 2013
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Japanese Netizens Have Fun Impersonating Line’s Cartoony Characters [PICS]

Japan-made social messaging app Line sees about 70 percent of users outside of Japan, which is a good rate of global expansion. But the most...

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  • June 3, 2013
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RI1.tv Looks to Put the Social Buzz Into Indonesia’s Next Presidential Election

Recently, the election for Jakarta’s governor used social media in quite a few interesting ways. So some might say this is a good time for...

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WeChat Sees Huge Boost in Philippines After Star-Studded TV Ads

Since ramping up TV and social marketing in the Philippines last month, China-made messaging app WeChat has been holding onto the top positi...

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  • June 3, 2013
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MelonFriends Targets Overseas Chinese, Combines Twitter, Facebook and Weibo in One App

If you’ve got friends all over the globe, those buddies are probably scattered across not just lots of nations but also several social med...

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Dolphin Browser’s Success Story: How it Plans to Dive into Southeast Asian Waters

Dolphin Browser took the Android world by storm and achieved 50 million downloads in two years. “It’s much more than 50 million now,” ...

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  • June 3, 2013
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Asian tech startups list

32 Startups in Asia That Caught Our Eye

It’s Sunday, so we’re back with a compilation of startups in the region! Remember, for startup tips and story suggestions, feel free to ...

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  • June 2, 2013
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Staff Picks: 7 Top News Stories this Week on Tech in Asia

This week we’ve got quite a few interesting pieces of news, especially with 500 Startups traveling to Asia this month, they’ll be making...

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  • June 1, 2013
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Pops Worldwide Licenses Up to 90% of the Vietnamese Music on Youtube

Pops Worldwide Licenses Up to 90% of the Vietnamese Music on Youtube

Since September 2008, Pops Worldwide has been slowly accumulating the licenses and distribution rights for much of Vietnam’s music. Th...

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  • May 31, 2013
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