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How 2C2P Plans To Solve Payment Problem in Southeast Asia [VIDEO]
We were happy to run our first ever Meetup in Ho Chi Minh city on the last day of February. Fifty people packed into the Lightbox cafe for a talk with Aung Kyaw Moe. Willis talked with Aung about the...
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Ho Chi Minh City Meetup Recap [VIDEO]
We were happy to run our first ever Meetup in Ho Chi Minh city on the last day of February. Fifty people packed into the Lightbox cafe for a talk with Aung Kyaw Moe. Willis talked with Aung about the...
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Raspberry Pi’s Eye Landing In April, Call For Testers To Put Camera Through...
The Raspberry Pi mini computer won’t be blind for much longer: a video camera unit shown off last month that will allow Pi owners to build video applications is expected to go on sale in April,...
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Metaps Taps $11 Million in Series B Funding for its Android Monetization...
Android monetization platform Metaps has just announced series B funding worth US$11 million. The Japanese startup, which launched in August 2011, helps developers earn money from their Android apps...
View Article18 rotors and up: E-volo shows personal helicopter prototype
The German startup hopes to build an 18-rotor personal “multicopter” by 2015 and is showing a prototype at the CeBIT trade show.
View ArticleSocial Marketing: The 3 Big Problems Working With Influencers
Guest author Will Stevens is an off-site SEO specialist at 123-reg.co.uk, the UK’s largest accredited domain name registrar. Advertising used to be easy – some harassed salesman would ring you up,...
View ArticleEU fines Microsoft over web browser
The EU’s competition regulator fines Microsoft after it failed to keep a promise that it would promote a choice of rival web browsers to users of its Windows software.
View ArticleEU Fines Microsoft $732 Million
Microsoft Corp. has been hit with a €561 million ($732.2 million) fine by European Union regulators after it broke its promise to offer millions of users of its Windows system a choice of rival Web...
View ArticleWhy The New SHIELD Bill Can’t Stop Patent Abuse
In an effort to chase patent trolls back under their bridges, two congressmen last week reintroduced a bill they call SHIELD — a laborious acronym that stands for Saving High-Tech Innovators from...
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Heads Turn as Microsoft Shows Off 3D Scanning Techniques
Scanning a three-dimensional image has been possible for quite a while now. The challenge has been doing so quickly, easily and inexpensively. At Microsoft’s TechFest this week, the software maker is...
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Funding Daily: I heart Sriracha
Happy Sriracha Week everyone! With all the chaos of the Launch festival, I completely missed that this week is the best of all weeks, for it is dedicated to my favorite food item. That’s right, not...
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Nuffnang Founders’ Story and Their Lessons Learned (Startup Asia Preview)
I have huge respect for blog ad network Nuffnang founders Ming Shen and Timothy Tiah. If you want to read their entire story, please click here. But here are a few reasons why these guys command my...
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China Unicom is Tracking Your Mobile Browsing History, and Now You Can Check...
Mobile users of China Unicom’s data networks, the company has some news for you: now you can check your own browsing history as stored on the company’s database. Unicom subscribers anywhere will be...
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There is No Glamour in an Asia Startup
After 15 years of working for someone else Mikaal Abdulla finally got smart and started his own company. He is the co-founder and CEO of 8 Securities and his journey has taken him through Silicon...
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Chinese Government Rep Says E-Commerce Sites Have Evaded Billions in Taxes
On Wednesday, NPC representative Wang Tian made a rather shocking accusation: Chinese e-commerce platforms have permitted sellers to evade more than 100 billion RMB ($15 billion) in taxes. And that’s...
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Regulation for Indonesian Incubators Will be Finalized This Month
Credit: media.tumblr.com Indonesia’s Kontan reports today that regulations covering the development of startup incubators and any SMEs – yes, including tech startups – is going to be finalized this...
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Google Cutting 10 Percent of Jobs at its Motorola Unit
Google’s Motorola Mobility unit is in the process of cutting a further 1,200 jobs amid continued challenges in its core cell phone business. As reported earlier on Thursday evening by the Wall Street...
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Why Sogou’s Input Method Search Could Change the Chinese Internet (and More)
Earlier this week, I wrote about Sogou’s new method of integrating search results into its Chinese-language input method. I also gave the system a test run on my own computer, and came away pretty...
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Trash-Filled Streets and Potholed Roads? Who Ya Gonna Call? SocialCops!
When faced with a problem or annoyance, it’s sometimes nice (if annoying for others) to vent about it online. For Indian urbanites, their gripes about pollution, potholes, and other street-level...
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Airbnb’s Voyage Into Asia (Startup Asia Preview)
Ole Ruch’s on the right. via flickr.com Airbnb is one of my favorite startups out of the Silicon Valley because I think it’s one of the leaders in collaborative consumption and is disrupting the...
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