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Misuse Allegation Throws Indonesia’s Rural Internet Penetration Scheme into Question

Though being the third largest democratic country in the world, corruption is still quite big in Ind...

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MailBird Launches Public Beta, Wants One Million Users This Year

Developed by a team based in Bali, email app MailBird launched its public beta version yesterday. Ci...

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MetroDeal’s Path To Daily Deal Dominance in the Philippines [Startup Asia Preview]

Daily deals have been one of the biggest trends to hit the internet since social media. Pioneered an...

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Fearing Chat Apps, Vietnam’s Telcos Hike Prices

Across the region, telcos are in a quandary as to how to deal with chat apps like Line, Whatsapp, an...

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Are China Telecom and Netease Taking on WeChat with a New Mobile Chat App?

We’ve written a bit lately about how China’s major telecoms are upset with WeChat and ot...

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  • April 3, 2013
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China’s Social Media Landscape 2013 (INFOGRAPHIC)

The good folks from CIC have just released their refreshed China social media landscape infographic ...

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  • April 2, 2013
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KakaoTalk Hits 10 Million Downloads in Japan

KakaoTalk says in a blog post today that it has hit 10 million downloads in Japan.

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  • April 2, 2013
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The Future of Sanook: Thailand’s Largest Web Portal

Led by Tiwa York and Krittee Manoleehagul, Sanook.com attracts 18.5 million unique visitors generati...

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Looking for Opportunities in Southeast Asia? BillPin Co-Founder Shares His View (Startup Asia Preview)

We’re less than 24 hours away from the event, and the Tech in Asia team is all gearing up to usher...

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Startup 101: How to do a Tech Startup, and Who’s Out There to Help You

Most of the TechinAsia team is already in Singapore for Startup Asia Singapore 2013 for some in-dept...

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  • April 3, 2013
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RIP: MediaCorp’s ilovebooks.com Now in Deadpool

First launched in May 2012, MediaCorp’s e-book store ilovebooks is now in the deadpool.

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  • April 3, 2013
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Anonymous Claims It Hacked North Korea’s Intranet (But It Probably Didn’t)

The worldwide hacker collective Anonymous announced yesterday that it had hacked North Korean web se...

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  • April 3, 2013
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Baidu Working on Google Glass-Like ‘Baidu Eye’ (UPDATE: Confirmed)

(UPDATED on April 3rd: A Baidu representative confirms to us that this is a genuine – though e...

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Rakuten Travel Sees Huge Revenue Growth in Southeast Asia and China

Rakuten isn’t all about e-commerce or its Kobo e-reader. It also runs Rakuten Travel, an onlin...

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  • April 2, 2013
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Job Marketplace ‘Freelancer’ Now Supports Malaysian, wants 300,000 Users in 2013

Global outsourcing online marketplace Freelancer, which connects people to freelance jobs posted wor...

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Chinese League of Legends Clone Hopes to Capture a Slice of China’s DOTA Market with Home-Grown Heroes

China’s casual and social gamers are growing by the day, especially on mobile platforms. But w...

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