Recently, we've seen news of cheap smartphones coming from a lot of Chinese internet companies, including Baidu , Netease , and Shanda . We knew already that Qihoo 360 was also throwing its hat into this ...

Bangkok-based gaming company Sandbox Global is in the process of launching an English language version of their Facebook fashion game Stylista for markets in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines.The ...

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), which currently owns 41.7 percent of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has come to a formal agreement with Alibaba to allow it to buy back 20 percent of that stake. With Alibaba ...

While most of the world was busy watching the $16 billion Facebook IPO, there was plenty of other action in China - mainly relating to new smartphones, a new version of a wildly popular game, and pondering ...

In the last seven days, we have covered a couple of startups on Tech in Asia, specifically from China, India, Hong Kong, and Singapore.For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with these ...

A tech ecosystem usually consists of startup founders, angel investors, VCs, government, universities, media, and communities. What often happens is that most people focus only on the entrepreneurs and ...

Facebook has gone public today (as NASDAQ:FB), and Hong Kong-based financial trading startup, 8Securities (who just announced $1.5 million of additional funding this morning), is offering something of ...

It's a stressful world we live in. A report indicated that one in every fifteen people is depressed in Japan [1] . Perhaps you have noticed a friend or a colleague showing signs of depression? Maybe it ...

I'm going to be honest -- I didn't even know China Mobile operated in Pakistan (we don't cover central Asia too often). But it does -- via a subsidiary company branded "Zong" -- and apparently ...

There’s been talk of this happening for a few days now, but we finally received official word from Tencent (HKG:0700) today to confirm that it will be reorganizing its business into six business groups. ...

Perhaps inspired by Xiaomi , it seems everyone is looking to make a low-cost Android-based smartphone for the China market these days. Netease is apparently the latest company to throw its hat into the ...

Benjamin Joffe @benjaminjoffe is the CEO of the Asia-based digital research & strategy firm +8* (Plus Eight Star), a speaker in 100+ conferences including TEDx, SXSW, LeWeb and Stanford GSB. He is also ...

Have you ever thought that an ancient Chinese text would be the key to investment success, or the tool that could help save your next startup? No? Well, I'd say you're probably right, but Julio Urvina ...

We recently wrote that Nintendo (TYO:7974) reported its first loss in 30 years with sales of its major consoles struggling. Sony (NYSE:SNE) is having troubles too with its new PS Vita continuing to be ...

Hong Kong-based financial trading and dashboard startup, 8Securities, has just informed us of a $1.5 million round of investment from Velocity Capital B.V. and Full Global. Both investors also led the ...

Thanks to our Thailand contributor Byron for the tip-off that we now have a new number one city on Facebook. Bangkok , Thailand has overtaken Jakarta , Indonesia as the social network’s top city, with ...

I was a little surprised recently to find that the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong is offering Data Journalism Scholarships, funded by none other than Google . I’m a ...

Despite all the discussion about 4G , 3G usage has been growing fast in China as smartphones become more prevalent. This morning, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology vice minister Shang Bing ...

So my friend Derrick Ko pointed me to this post telling of a student who interned at a US-based startup. The student was offered to extend his job role at a pretty hot company (no names mentioned though) ...

According to statistics released from PayPal Online and Mobile Shopping Insights 2011, mobile shopping here in Singapore is expected to increase from S$328 million (US$259 million) in 2011 to a whopping ...

Chinese-based startup Mafengwo is a website that provides content on all things travel-related. Aside from the website, one of the products that it has developed is Traveling Translator. The app serves ...

Vites is TaskRabbit made a little more simple. It matches people with talent and/or time, to those who need to get things done. Vites was released in both Japanese and Korean a little over week ago.  Wishscope ...

All hail Kim Jong Un? Perhaps it's the result of the country's young new leader, or perhaps this was part of the plan all along, but the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- a.k.a. North Korea -- has ...

All Things Digital is reporting today that it expects that Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten (JSD:4755) will be the lead investor in Pinterest’s next round of funding, which is expected to be announced ...

Without GPS technology, we would all be lost -- increasingly, that's a literal truth. China's "Big Dipper" GPS satellite system has of course been in operation for a little while already, but ...

When statistics for the number of Facebook users back in 2010 revealed that Indonesia was the second largest Facebook nation, it took many people by surprise. But beyond that statistical evidence of its ...

A new report from Gartner claims that because of decreased demand from Asia, worldwide sales of mobile phones dropped two percent in the first quarter of 2012 on the same time the previous year. The overall ...

In Bandung, Indonesia I recently had a few opportunities to share my journey as an entrepreneur. Now note that I’m far from the term “successful.” But I believe I do know a thing or two about starting ...

China Mobile CEO Li Yue announced in a shareholders meeting that China Mobile will not be engaging in price war when it comes to introducing 4G network services, and aims to pilot test them in up to 10 ...

Readers may recall back in January when we looked at Chinese startup Tujia , a vacation home rental service which offers hotel-like online booking for your home if you’re on holiday. And now this evening ...

After KDDI (TYO:9433) rolled out its new summer smartphone lineup yesterday, rival carrier NTT Docomo unveiled its own repertoire of handsets today. The entire lineup includes 16 smartphones, all of which ...

At first glance, it might seem that PC internet and mobile internet endeavors are similar enough that they'd be almost interchangable. Not so, says Kaifu Lee , who I'm pretty sure I don't need to even ...

In the West, online travel has long since eclipsed the brick-and-mortar industry, but in China, real-world travel agencies are very much alive. Travel patterns are also very different here; Chinese tourists ...

Last week, we wrote about Throw it Out the Window , the food-safety platform built by a Chinese college student that's been garnering a lot of attention and momentum of late. In the week since then, China ...

MoboTap, the makers of the popular Dolphin Browser for iOS and Android, has announced a partnership with Japanese carrier KDDI (TYO:9433) in which Dolphin will be pre-loaded on future Android phones. KDDI ...

Even though our core team is made up of five different nationalities all across Asia, Tech in Asia is still legally a Singapore-based startup. Singapore is small and it seems like a mandate that all local ...

Readers may recall a couple of weeks back that we reported about social game developer CrowdStar , and its partnership to bring its Top Girl franchise to the GREE platform. And today there's more news ...

Today, Sina published some new statistics about its microblogging service, Sina Weibo . Turns out, the inevitable has happened: the service has broken 300 million users. Yes, we all knew that announcement ...

Wolianxi (loose translation: connect me) reminds me of Found , which is also an app that tries help users organize meet ups quickly. But Wolianxi is much more straightforward. The Chinese app follows common ...

Launched in December 2010, Fimela.com is a web portal dedicated solely to Indonesia’s modern, tech-savvy, and mobile women who want a combo of news, fashion, and family tips. The services has launched ...

There’s an interesting battle taking shape in China , as a number of companies are setting their sights on the nation’s entry-level smartphone market. Over the past few days along we’ve seen Samsung put ...

Yesterday we told you about how PopCap is soon launching the Great Wall and Kingdoms editions of Plants vs. Zombies in China. This news from the Global Mobile Internet Conference 2012 was then followed ...

There’s much discussion going on today about a Nikkei Business Daily report that says Mixi’s founder and CEO, Kenji Kasahara, is considering selling his 55 percent stake in the company. Mixi (TYO:2121) ...

Multiply has officially announced that it has moved its corporate headquarters from Florida to Jakarta after first confirming the move back in January. At the same time, Multiply also replaced Peter Pezaris ...

Even with all the craziness surrounding ‘kompu gacha’ for Japan’s biggest social gaming companies, their businesses still keep chugging along. And one of the biggest players, GREE (TYO:3632), has hit a ...

Many of you likely remember Teamie , the winner of our Startup Arena competition this past February. With a goal of fusing social and learning into one, the Singapore-based startup has been making good ...

China-based app LuTu [1] came to my attention for various reasons: I love to travel, take photographs, document my trips, and share with friends. The app positions itself as a travel photography platform ...

Japanese carrier NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM - News) issued a brief announcement today that it has launched a tender to acquire Italy-based mobile internet content company Buongiorno S.p.A (BIT:BNG). At two euros per ...