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IBM Helps the Biggest City in the Philippines Transform to a Smart City

IBM Helps the Biggest City in the Philippines Transform to a Smart City

Public safety is a government responsibility that is tough to oversee as it covers vast areas of concern such as traffic, crime, and other e...

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What Happens If Entrepreneurs Dream Big, But Investors Have No Balls?

What Happens If Entrepreneurs Dream Big, But Investors Have No Balls?

Every entrepreneur in Asia is looking enviously at Singapore and its government as they pump millions and millions of dollars into new tech ...

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With an Eye on Mobile Video Viewers, Youku and Sina Weibo Form a Partnership

With an eye to the many Sina Weibo users who access the Twitter-like service via mobile, two of China’s web giants have formed an interest...

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Rakuten America

Rakuten Helps American Merchants Make Faster Deliveries With Logistics Company Acquisition

Japanese e-commerce titan Rakuten (JSD:4755) has revealed today that it’s acquired California-based logistics company Webgistix for an...

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Wanpai clones Vine app for China

YouTube Founders Have Made a Chinese Clone of Vine – And It’s Really Good

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are no stranger to the Chinese market having launched a localized version of social bookmarking ...

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Chinese E-Commerce Site Jingdong Moves Deeper into the Cloud with Developer Tools

Chinese E-Commerce Site Jingdong Moves Deeper into the Cloud with Developer Tools

China’s Jingdong — the e-commerce site formerly known as 360Buy before a recent rebranding — is moving further into cloud-...

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Bing Denies Wrongdoing in Sogou Privacy Leak Mess

Microsoft’s Bing China denied responsibility yesterday for a data leak in Sogou’s mobile input method that Sogou says is ultimat...

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China’s First Tech IPO of 2013 Has Just Hit the New York Stock Exchange

Here’s a new tech ticker for you: $LITB. That’s the stock market moniker for Chinese B2B e-commerce site LightInTheBox (NYSE:LITB), whic...

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Adi Kusma Shares Founding Story of Biznet and Urges Startups to be Their Own Chefs

The Indonesian startup scene is definitely one to follow in the coming years. Besides taking a look into the various startups popping up her...

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China Kindle launch

Finally, the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Fire HD Launch Today in China

Though it’s likely that not many Chinese users care all that much, the tech world has nonetheless been awaiting the arrival of Amazon’s ...

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Singapore Startup Deal.com.sg Records $50 million Yearly Revenue; Founder Shares His Starting Up Story

Singapore Startup Deal.com.sg Records $50 million Yearly Revenue; Founder Shares His Starting Up Story

Patrick Linden is the co-founder of Dealguru Holdings, whose services include a daily deals site Deal.com.sg, an online food delivery servic...

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FreeCharge India

The Story of Sequoia-backed FreeCharge and its Success in India

FreeCharge was founded on August 2010 by Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon. The service allows users to top-up their mobile phones for “freeâ€...

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Asva The Monkey, An Awesome Puzzle Game Out Of Cambodia

Cambodia is a country we don’t get to focus much on here on Tech In Asia, but luckily there are a few websites out there like Geeks In...

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Apricot Forest Wants to Streamline Your Hospital Visits

The medical field is a haven for red tape, especially in China. Between patients, pharmacies, insurance companies, and doctors stands a moun...

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Gaming Madness in China: Beatings, Beatings, and a Little Peeing in Internet Cafes

Gaming Madness in China: Beatings, Beatings, and a Little Peeing in Internet Cafes

On this week’s edition of gaming madness in China, we take a look into China’s internet cafes, where people are going absolutely...

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How To Pitch Successfully to Investors for Follow-on Funding (Part 1)

This series of five guest articles was originally intended as an answer to a question posed by Willis. It relates especially to Southeast As...

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