Posts Tagged: vietnam


coccoc

Ho Chi Minh City Meetup: How CocCoc Plans To Take Down Google in Vietnam

Hey folks, Xin Chào Thành Phó Hồ Chí Minh! In case you’re wondering what that means, it’s actually “Hello Ho Chi Minh city!” A...

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  • May 8, 2013
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mobile day vietnam

Mobile Day: Vietnam’s Biggest Event For Looking at the Future of Mobile

Here are a few stats for you to ponder: 24 percent of Vietnam’s search traffic happens on mobile and Vietnam has over 140 million mobile p...

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  • May 6, 2013
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vietnam's food delivery battle

Vietnam’s Food Delivery Battle is Really Hot, Here are the Top 4 Players

Since 2011, food delivery has been a delicious space in Vietnam. At first, it started out in the expat communities and gained significant tr...

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  • May 3, 2013
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KakaoTalk gaming launch in Indonesia and Vietnam

Game On: KakaoTalk Brings Social Gaming Platform to Indonesia and Vietnam

After months of testing it out in South Korea and Japan, the messaging app KakaoTalk is today launching its social gaming platform for users...

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  • May 2, 2013
  • at 6:33 pm
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tablet market in vietnam

The Tablet Market in Vietnam: Slow But Steady Growth

Lately, we’ve been focusing quite a bit on e-commerce and startups in Vietnam’s mobile market, especially smartphones, but we ha...

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  • April 30, 2013
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vietnamgeeks

Online Recruitment Site VietnamGeeks Gives Us a Peek Into the Engineering Culture of Vietnam

In Vietnam’s growing startup and outsourcing market, it’s been a tough task to get the best software engineering talent. On one ...

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  • April 29, 2013
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taembe.vn

Taembe.vn: The New Diapers.com For Vietnam

If you’re a Vietnamese mom and you need diapers, you need look no further than Taembe.vn. The new e-commerce site, quietly released tw...

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  • April 25, 2013
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facebook prostitution vietnam

Vietnamese Prostitutes Are Using Facebook For Sex-Commerce

Despite Facebook’s stringent photo policy, some things always just slip through the cracks. And this time, it’s prostitution. Th...

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  • April 24, 2013
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How China’s UCWeb Plans To Invest $480 Million in the Next 3 Years

China’s UCWeb and its UC Browser app for mobiles have more than 400 million users worldwide with 100 million outside of China. Today at th...

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  • May 7, 2013
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zalo vietnam mobile

Zalo Hits 2 Million Users and Plans for 5 Million Soon [INFOGRAPHIC]

I’ve been doing a lot of chat app news in Vietnam lately – the reason is mobile is in a very important growth stage and a lot of for...

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  • May 6, 2013
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tapxxi vietnam startup

Tapxxi App Makes Taking a Taxi in Vietnam Simple and Safe

In Vietnam, taxis are everywhere. Step off the airplane, and that’s one of the most accessible forms of transportation. But that doesn...

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  • May 3, 2013
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NganLuong Gives Us a Deep View Into Online Payment In Vietnam

Last month, Ngan Luong, one of Vietnam’s leading online payment startups, got 50 percent acquired by MOL. This was big news for a country ...

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  • May 2, 2013
  • at 5:06 pm
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Hanoi vs Saigon: Weighing Up Vietnam’s Two Biggest Startup Cities

Hanoi vs Saigon: Weighing Up Vietnam’s Two Biggest Startup Cities

Vietnam, for the last century, has been a tale of two cities. Hanoi is the cultural capital, full of lakes, and with distinct cold and hot s...

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  • April 29, 2013
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Vietnamese Startup Triip Crowdsources For the Best Tour Guides in Asia

I’m a big fan of collaborative consumption startups like Airbnb, Zipcar, and Coursera because of their disruptive potential in incumbent m...

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  • April 25, 2013
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kleii

Kleii, Vietnam’s Dropbox, Closes First Round Of Seed Funding

Remember the Vietnamese Dropbox that I wrote about in January? It just closed its first round of seed funding for an undisclosed amount with...

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  • April 24, 2013
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e-books in vietnam

E-Books In Vietnam Stagnate at 1% of Total Book Buying Market Share

One of my favorite local Vietnamese tech sites, Pandora.vn, just came out with an interesting report saying that in Vietnam e-books haven...

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  • April 23, 2013
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