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Tencent CEO Pony Ma Talks WeChat, Competition, Going Mobile and Global
Tencent’s Pony Ma (sat on right) takes questions from the host and a panel of industry experts. This afternoon at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) event in Beijing, Tencent’s ‘Pony’ Ma...
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Forced Out of His Own Company, Sued by a State-Owned Firm, Streetdirectory...
During Startup Asia Singapore a month ago, I met Streetdirectory‘s founder, Firdhaus Akber and learned about his entrepreneurial journey. From my perspective, it was one hell of a roller coaster ride:...
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After 1 Year in China, Evernote Reaches 4 Million Chinese Users
Last time we got some China numbers from Evernote, makers of the notes syncing service, it had hit 1.1 million users in the country in July 2012, a mere two months after launching its Chinese...
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Kingsoft CEO Announces Mobile Browser, Jokes About Condoms
Yesterday, in an interview with Sina Tech at GMIC, Kingsoft CEO Fu Sheng made an announcement: soon, the company plans to release a mobile version of its popular “Cheetah” web browser. Although he...
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LeTV Announces SuperTV Models and Prices, Launch in Late June
LeTV SuperTVs at the launch event, displaying the screen of a smartphone that is connected to them via wifi. Chinese video and television company LeTV has been talking about its SuperTV (a smart TV)...
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The Most Expensive App in Southeast Asia
(Updated: We tinkered with the headline a little bit). While we occasionally see apps being put at optimistically premium prices, a few developers dare sell their app above the US$100 mark. Meet...
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How KakaoTalk Grew From a Startup to a Giant Mobile Platform (INTERVIEW)
With over 90 million users today, KakaoTalk’s success seems like an overnight fairytale. It isn’t. The company has had its fair share of struggles. Like any startup, Kakao’s road to success was paved...
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A Ranking of China’s Most Leet Universities (No, That’s Not a Typo)
Chinese high school students are probably all familiar with the academic power rankings of the country’s universities; everybody wants to get into a top ten school like Peking University or Tsinghua....
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Wearable Tech Maker From China Clones the ‘Jawbone Up’
A wearable tech company from China is about to launch a good-looking new fitness-tracking gadget. Unfortunately, the elegant design is far from original, as it’s a very blatant clone of the Jawbone Up....
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An Indonesian Telco Develops Chat App to Battle Against WhatsApp, Line, and...
A few months ago we reported that the Indonesian telcos were planning to build a chat app platform together to battle the aggresively expanding foreign chat apps like WeChat, Line, and KakaoTalk. We...
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RocketLabs: Giving Online Education in Philippines a Boost
Education is a sensitive topic in the Philippines, whether it’s questions of quality, discussions on lack of funding and availability, or even just plain inquiries on the best pre-schools in your...
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China’s Baidu Just Made its First (Very Stealthy) Move into Indonesia
While we were doing our usual browsing of the web we stumbled on something very interesting: a new site by China’s Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) that’s an Indonesian version of its web links portal Hao123. Just...
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Real-Time Analytics Startup ‘Mention’ Crowned GMIC Beijing Seed Stage Winner
Beijing-based real-time behavioral analytics startup Mention charmed the judges and audience with its startup pitch at the ongoing GMIC Beijing event yesterday. This afternoon, Mention was crowned as...
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Visualead Wins GMIC Growth Stage Competition, Wants to Bring Cutesy QR Code...
Earlier we announced the winner of the Seed Stage G-Startup contest at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) here in Beijing, and now we are also delighted to know that Israel-based QR code...
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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!” And yes, Tech in Asia Meetup will be heading back to Ho Chi Minh, and once...
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Two Serious Problems That Plague Tech Companies in Vietnam
Over the last six months, I’ve been talking to a lot of people across the tech and startup industries in Vietnam, and after a while, you start to hear the same things. You start to hear a signal in...
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Fruit Ninja Has 200 Million Downloads in China
Brisbane-headquartered game studio Halfbrick is nailing it in China with its Fruit Ninja game. If you think people are sick of slicing all kinds of fruit on their mobile screens, then you’re so wrong....
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China’s Top 3 Most Profitable Web Companies
The companies that make the list of China’s top tech earners shouldn’t come as much of a surprise — the same players — Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent — have been topping that list for a while now. But the...
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Rumor: Baidu, Qihoo, and Tencent Fighting to Acquire Sogou
Boy, there are a lot of acquisition rumors flying around in the Chinese press these days! First there was the rumored Alibaba investment in Weibo (which turned out to be true), then the Baidu...
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Report: China Mobile To Launch 4G Network in October (Or Later)
Contradicting previous reports that China Mobile’s 4G network could be granted the official permit it needs to begin commercial operation in August or even as early as this month, a new report in...
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