Posts Tagged: location-based


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Location Technology Company W-Locate Raises US$470,000 from TNF Ventures

Singapore-based company, W-Locate, has successfully raised S$589,000 (US$470,000) in its pre-series ...

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  • May 16, 2013
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China’s Momo App Chats Up 20 Million Users, Also Sees Traction in the US

China’s biggest flirty chat app, Momo, is still attracting new users at one hell of a rate. To...

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  • December 4, 2012
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Gaming Giant Netease Decides It Needs to Be Lucky in Love

The green-eyed monster of jealousy is never an attractive thing – especially in relationships....

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  • October 29, 2012
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China’s Dating App Momo Will Soon Chat-Up International Users in English [Updated]

The Beijing-based startup behind the flirty hook-up app Momo is preparing to take it international, ...

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  • October 24, 2012
  • at 12:40 pm
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FoodKing: Japan’s Dentsu Experiments with Food-Finding iPhone App

Japanese ad giant Dentsu (TYO:4324) has released an iPhone application which aims to help you find n...

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  • August 31, 2012
  • at 8:30 pm
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GoMyWay: How an iPhone App Plans to Save You Money on Taxi Fares

Taking taxis can be a pain, but one location-based smartphone app is hoping that it can help Singapo...

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  • August 23, 2012
  • at 1:00 pm
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Most China Check-ins: Starbucks Tops on Jiepang for Second Year Running

Here’s a pretty graphic that came our way on this Friday afternoon. It’s not the usual infog...

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  • July 13, 2012
  • at 10:08 pm
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Eyeland is a Location Messaging App with 500,000 Users in Japan

Eyeland (www.eyeland.in) is an app that allows users to leave their comments and messages at a speci...

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  • June 14, 2012
  • at 10:08 am
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From Foreplay to Foursquare: China’s Top Dating App Toys With Local Check-Ins

What do you do when your young app has 20 million users and you need a path towards monetization? Go...

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  • January 3, 2013
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Japan’s Location-based Game Platform Colopl Passes 3 Million Users

Over on Asiajin, Chiho Komoriya points out that Japanese game developer Colopl Inc. announced early ...

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  • October 30, 2012
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sprooki

Singapore’s Sprooki Raises $483,000, Looks to Bring Location-Based Deals to Philippines Next

Singapore-based Sprooki is a location-based mobile commerce service that lets retail shops send targ...

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  • October 29, 2012
  • at 12:45 pm
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Hello Kitty Tourism App Highlights Possibilities for Gamified Travel

So I’ve been enjoying a weekend vacation of sorts, having escaped Tokyo for a few days for a s...

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  • September 3, 2012
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Born This Way: China Gets its First Gay Flirting App, Blued

We’ve seen quite a few Chinese location-based apps for lads and ladies to flirt and get togeth...

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  • August 23, 2012
  • at 4:37 pm
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Momo App Hits 10 Million Users, A Whole Lot of Flirting Going On

For a startup to go from zero to ten million users in the space of a year, and to have done so very ...

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  • August 2, 2012
  • at 9:00 am
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yfind

YFind Raises S$1.5 Million in Series A Round

We wrote about Singapore-based startup, YFind, about a year ago. And today, we received news that it...

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  • June 18, 2012
  • at 9:30 am
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Beepmo Mobile App to Provide Professional Networking Service for Next Bank Asia Conference

Back in February we told you about Beepmo, which at the time had just launched in public beta. The m...

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  • May 2, 2012
  • at 8:00 pm
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