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Crowdsourced Mappedinworld Puts Startups On the Map

We like to put startups on the map with stories about their successes and entrepreneurial journeys &...

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  • September 27, 2012
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Viki Teams Up with Axis for Mobile Video in Indonesia

Viki, the social startup that shows videos, music, TV dramas, and music concerts around the world fo...

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  • September 26, 2012
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Chinese Sex Toys Site Nails Year’s Biggest E-Commerce Funding Round

An obscure Chinese e-commerce site that sells sex toys has caused quite a shock in the industry by s...

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  • September 25, 2012
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PixaRoll Offers Fast Prints of Your iPhone Photos (If You’re in Singapore)

Printed photos have fallen by the wayside a bit now that everyone and their grandmother is walking a...

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  • September 25, 2012
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Freelancer.com Prepares to Jump into Indonesian Market

By the end of 2012, Indonesia’s National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN) predicts that ...

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  • September 21, 2012
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Australian Entrepreneurs Aim to Reinvent the Light Bulb With LIFX

Last Thursday, I was catching up over the phone with a friend, Ben Hamey, a mobile app developer fro...

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  • September 20, 2012
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The Red Herring Awards Scam

This past weekend, we’ve received a lot of emails from startups proudly telling us that they w...

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  • September 18, 2012
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Find Unique Travel Experiences With Local Guides Using Meetrip

While traveling can be lots of fun, some aspects of it can be quite mundane. Buying guide books and ...

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  • September 18, 2012
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MapMyIndia’s Don’t Panic App Will Solve Your iOS 6 Maps Woes (If You’re in India)

Apple’s new Maps app — and the lack of Google Maps in iOS 6 — has caused a lot of ...

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  • September 27, 2012
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QLearnChinese: A Chinese Skype Teaching Service

There are a lot of web services promising to help you learn Chinese these days (recently we took a l...

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  • September 26, 2012
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Travelmob Aims to be Asia’s Airbnb, Snags $1 Million in Seed Funding

Earlier this year, the former managing director of Skype Asia, Turochas “T” Fuad, left to form a...

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  • September 25, 2012
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What’s Whatsapp? India’s Hike App Aims for Global Launch in October

As Korea gave birth to Kakaotalk, Japan to Line, and China to WeChat, an Indian startup is looking t...

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  • September 24, 2012
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Thai Tech Round-Up [September 21, 2012]

We are back with a new issue of our Thai tech round-up, brought to you by thumbsup. This time let’...

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  • September 21, 2012
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Microsoft’s $300,000 Grants Kicks Off ICT Training for 20,000 Young Entrepreneurs in ASEAN countries

The youth unemployment rate in Asia is an important matter for all generations. The International La...

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  • September 18, 2012
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Artiste Connect: A Crowdfunding Site for Creative Filipinos

Passion, passion, passion. We all have passions and a dream to make it big, but sometimes we don’t...

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  • September 18, 2012
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Enhance.cn Hopes to Enhance Chinese Students’ Standardized Test Scores with Slick Web Service

As a former teacher, I tend to think standardized tests are basically the devil, and I abhor the ide...

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  • September 18, 2012
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