The Facebook China rumor goes on – Facebook hasn’t signed any deals with any company in China. If there were a deal, we’re pretty positive that things would work out fine for Facebook. Last week, Lashou, a group buying site in China received a $110 million investment to battle Groupon China, Gaopeng.com.
Several positive statistics in China were also reported: China’s online gaming industry was projected to hit $8 billion by 2014 and Simon Kemp, from Bartle Bogle Hegarty, shared with us some staggering statistics on China’s digital space.
Indonesia’s bollywood dancing cop, Norman Kamaru, continues to enjoy his YouTube fame as he was featured on TV and news. RIM added a content filter in Indonesia, bowing down to the authorities. China’s Huawei had also set up a technology training center in Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).
After last week’s ‘Anna Hazare’ movement, India is back to enjoying Cricket. Good news for Cricket fans as a collaboration between Google and Indiatimes had made all the games available at YouTube and Indiatimes’s microsite. The iPhone 4 is also coming to India.
Japan’s .org owners would receive free renewal due to the earthquake. Google also launched a site which allows users to send messages to Japan. Meanwhile, Japan’s quake alert site had gotten itself a Facebook page.
Elsewhere, LIVE Singapore brings real-time visualizations live in Singapore. You can catch all the 6 visualizations here. As a Mac OS X country, Singapore is hot while China is not.
To learn more, below are 3 must-reads and 46 technology stories in Asia.
(1) Twitter adds more trend locations: Good news in Asia as Twitter adds 70 more trend locations including Japan, Philippines, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. They are now live on Twitter.
(2) Indian Premiere League and social media: The historic win by India in the Cricket World Cup attracted an enormous amount of social media attention. Now one week later cricket is back in action with the Indian Premiere League.
(3) iPad crowded with competitors in Indonesia: Indonesia has become the target for many hardware makers. In the tablet space, Apple’s iPad is always the popular choice although it’s seeing more intense competition from other manufacturers recently.
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(4) Google Lets You Send Messages for Japan in Any Language
(5) iPhone 4 Coming to India, With Bharti Airtel
(6) Free Renewal of .ORGs Domains for Japan Due to Earthquake
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