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Japan’s Flash Sales Frenzy Continues with Series B Funding for Luxa
Selling everything from pricey sake to quality skincare products, Luxa.jp, as its name might suggest, is a luxury-oriented e-commerce site. ...
Facebook Now Has Over 12 Million Users in Vietnam
In October 2012, WeAreSocial calculated that Facebook had hit 8.5 million users in Vietnam to overtake local rival Zing as the top social ne...
Is North Korea Hiring Chinese Hackers?
With the latest report that South Korean banks and news broadcasters’ servers were possibly hacked by North Korea – and the Nort...
Messaging Apps Invade Asia, Now the Most Active Social Networks in Japan and Korea (Infographic)
We’ve been following the rapid progress of messaging apps very closely across Asia, and we’ve even noted that they might be a th...
HotelQuickly Books Your Hotels Really Quickly, Launches in 6 Asian Countries
HotelQuickly is a mobile-only service that helps users book hotels really quickly. It’s available in six countries: Thailand, Singapor...
Brand24 Monitors Social Media Activity Lightning Fast for Brands in Indonesia
Brand24.co.id, an Indonesian company that specializes in monitoring online social marketing – and the company which brought us Jakarta...
World Startup Report: Your 15-Minute Guide to India’s Startup Scene and Culture
At the start of this year we talked to American entrepreneur Bowei Gai as he kicked off his worldwide, nine-month odyssey for his World Star...
Rakuten Splits With MNC Group, Leaving Indonesia E-Commerce Site in Doubt
(Updated on March 25th: MNC confirms the break-up and is now looking to sell its 49 percent share back to Rakuten. The Indonesian company sa...
How E-Commerce King Taobao Is Expanding Out of China (Startup Asia Preview)
Taobao is a household name in China, being the online marketplace that first got the country going nuts for e-commerce. But Alibaba-owned Ta...
India’s Zomato Launches Restaurant Listings in Manila (and Singapore Might be Next)
Not long after expanding to Europe with restaurant listings for London, now India’s Zomato has launched for foodies in Manila, capital of ...
Watch Tokyo’s YouTube Space Get Taken Over by a Huge Rube Goldberg Machine (VIDEO)
Remember the ‘YouTube Space’ studio that opened up in Tokyo last month, the first of its kind in Asia? Well, it’s already ...
HomeAway Makes Third Asian Deal in Tie-Up With Singapore’s Travelmob
Having already buddied up with China’s TuJia and Singapore-based Wego last year, today HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY) has agreed another Asian...
Truecaller Now Installed on Every 7th Smartphone in India, Eyes Japan and Indonesia Next
Sweden-based crowdsourcing phone directory app Truecaller announced today that the company now processes around 500 million name and number ...
Singapore’s AdzCentral Raises $3.2 Million From Electric Sheep Capital and DMP
Singapore-based AdzCentral has concluded a SG$4 million (US$3.2 million) financing round with Electric Sheep Capital and Digital Media Partn...
MOL Acquires AyoPay, Confirms Indonesia is Top Priority This Year
Malaysia’s leading payment service giant, MOL, has acquired Indonesia’s AyoPay for an undisclosed sum. AyoPay is a 20-man team b...
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