Posts Tagged: Taiwan


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Report: Foxconn’s 1 Million Robot Workers Delayed, Only 15,000 Ready This Year

Humans suck, with their continual, nagging demands for things like water, shelter, and wages. That’s why the Taiwanese manufacturer Fo...

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  • September 28, 2012
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Taobao Marches To Taiwan and Hong Kong For Expansion

Alibaba-owned Taobao.com, China’s largest C2C online marketplace, began expanding to Hong Kong and Taiwan early this year, Tech in Asi...

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  • September 12, 2012
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How Rakuten’s Global Expansion Began With Baby Steps in Taiwan

We’ve written a lot about Rakuten’s (JSD:4755) overseas adventures over the past year or so. The Japanese e-commerce giant now h...

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  • August 13, 2012
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Excite Talks About its Plans For Indonesia, Will Reward Click-Happy Users

Japanese online service provider Excite recently launched its advertising-based points program called Excite Points, claiming to be the firs...

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  • August 8, 2012
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Report: Asia Now Has 1 Billion Web Users, And This is What They Do Online

Asia now has more than one billion internet users – or 1.016 billion, to be precise – who amount to 46 percent of the world̵...

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  • July 10, 2012
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7-Eleven’s Boom Could Aid E-Commerce in Indonesia

I stumbled upon this fascinating article by The New York Times reporting on 7-Eleven’s explosive growth in Jakarta, Indonesia. 7-Eleven ha...

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  • May 29, 2012
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Facebook Adds 20 Million New Users Across Asia as Social Media Grows Apace [INFOGRAPHIC]

A fresh snapshot of Asia’s social media landscape reveals which service dominates in each country – and it’s especially good news for ...

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  • May 8, 2012
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LiiHo IM App: A New Way to Chat as You Draw Something and Doodle With Friends

A Taiwanese-made messaging app looks set to cash in on the craze for doodling that was stirred up by the OMGpop/Zynga game Draw Something. T...

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  • April 5, 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 looking up “popular restaurants” usi...

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  • September 18, 2012
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Chinese Startups Are Slowly Moving Away From Beijing, Shanghai [CHART]

One of my first posts at the beginning of 2012 was about where China’s startups are based. Today, looking at the same stats source, I ...

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  • August 13, 2012
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Facebook World Hack Comes to Asia in September

Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) will travel to 10 cities all around the world for its World Hack competition starting from August 23 to October 1. The ...

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  • August 9, 2012
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Xiaomi to Launch in Taiwan Later This Year?

According to a Techweb report quoting “Taiwanese media,” Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has announced that a Xiaomi phone will launch in Tai...

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  • July 13, 2012
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China Telecom Deal to Bring Cloud Gaming to Smart TVs

Chinese casual gaming fans will soon be able to put down their smartphones and instead pick up their remote controls. That’s because U...

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  • June 18, 2012
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Foxconn to Break Ground Tomorrow on China HQ and R&D Labs in Shanghai

Foxconn, the world’s biggest OEM manufacturer of gadgets, will break ground tomorrow on a new China HQ and research center in Shanghai...

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  • May 9, 2012
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Survey Suggests Taiwan Prefers Mobile Media Over TV

The folks over at mobile advertising network InMobi have conducted a survey [1] into how people in Taiwan are using mobile devices, and how ...

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  • April 30, 2012
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Google Starts Work on Data Center in Taiwan

Internet search giant Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced that it has started building a new data center in Changhua County in Taiwan, and ...

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  • April 3, 2012
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