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Sound can change the way we see, this startup from Hanoi claims. Echoes invites creators to make sound maps for places around the world.

What Volkswagen, Toyota, General Motors, Ford, Honda, Nissan, and BMW have in common, apart from being Fortune 100 auto majors, is that they are AdNear clients.

Founded in 2008 by serial entrepreneur Anil Mathews, AdNear is a location-based advertising network that’s approaching the game differently. While most location-based ad networks use GPS or operator data, Anil

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS), has just announced that it has fully acquired Singapore’s location-based startup YFind Technologies.

Singapore-based company, W-Locate, has successfully raised S$589,000 (US$470,000) in its pre-series A funding, led by TNF Ventures under Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS). Co-founder and chief

What do you do when your young app has 20 million users and you need a path towards monetization? Go local! That’s the approach that will be taken by Momo,

China’s biggest flirty chat app, Momo, is still attracting new users at one hell of a rate. Today the startup’s app reached 20 million users. That’s stellar growth from a

Over on Asiajin, Chiho Komoriya points out that Japanese game developer Colopl Inc. announced early this month their eponymous location-based game platform has surpassed the 3 million user milestone. We

Colopl at Tokyo Game Show 2012 Over on Asiajin, Chiho Komoriya points out that Japanese game developer Colopl Inc. announced early this month their eponymous location-based game platform has surpassed

The green-eyed monster of jealousy is never an attractive thing – especially in relationships. But that’s what seems to have motivated China’s Netease (NASDAQ:NTES), which is better known for its