Focusing on Mobile and Local Discounts, DDMap Bags $40 Million in Funding
Chinese online city listings company DDMap has today revealed a new and sizable round of funding. CE...
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So, Uh, I Got a Condom in the Invitation Parcel from ‘Buy Me A Drink’ App
People are getting creative with their marketing tactics, because essentially you need to be differe...
Goocus Helps Users Discover Wikipedia Content Socially
Japan-based startup, Castalia, has launched Goocus today. It’s a social Wikipedia reader app f...
Renren Launches a Social Travel Platform and App, Wants to Take a Trip
China’s biggest Facebook-like social network, Renren (NYSE:RENN), has launched a good-looking ...
Check-In to China’s Pinterest For Foodies
Amid the glut of Pinterest clones in China, there are some interesting such social pinboard sites th...
Starbucks and Jiepang Hook-Up Single Users for Valentine’s Promo
Smartphone-toting singletons in China will get some help in finding a potential date for Valentine&#...
Openbar App Wants to Go Drinking with You in Hong Kong
I have a bit of a weakness for ‘hyperlocal’ websites and apps that map important informa...
Find Out What’s Happening Around You With LBS News App ‘News 2km’
News 2km is a terrible name for an app, but it does manage to communicate the basic premise of this ...
Sina Weibo Launches Location Platform ‘Weibo Places’
In a move that, in retrospect, we’re surprised didn’t happen way sooner, Sina Weibo laun...
C2: The Social Network That Transports You to a Stranger’s Life
For all the power that the internet has to enable us to explore, poke, and pry, it is rarely done in...
Path Gets Cloned Again in China, But With a Focus on Following Celebrities
The American social network Path has got itself another Chinese clone. This new imposter is called D...
Momo App Reaches 2 Million Flirty Users, Says Some of its Couples Have Married
The location-based flirting app Momo, which we reviewed last December, has hit an impressive milesto...
Bouncity Releases iPhone App, Version 2.0 Coming Soon
Bouncity, the Indonesian startup we first covered in June last year, has finally launched an iOS ver...
PlayCez Android App Hits the Streets, Helps You Find Places to Go
When we chatted with the Indian startup PlayCez last summer, one co-founder promised that the social...
Xunlei Makes File-Sharing Social and Local, Probably Banned from Apple’s App Store
Xunlei has added social and location-based (LBS) features to a new file-sharing service, and release...
Snap It, Tag It, Share It With China’s First Travel Journal App, Coming Soon
A Beijing-based startup is about to roll-out its travel journal-style service and an accompanying iP...
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