Love live music gigs? So do I. I bumped into Clarence, founder of Bandwagon.sg, through a common friend during our event, Startups In Asia. Bandwagon, founded in October 2011, is a live music gig search engine which helps users look for places that play live music. Bandwagon has an instant search, where users are only required to load the site once, and the search happens instantaneously. You can filter gigs by genre, schedule, date or even location of the gig. One thing I like about their website is that it is ...
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Huawei Chairman Boasts MediaPad 10 Will Be ‘Most Powerful Tablet Ever’
According to Huawei chariman ‘Richard’ Yu Cheng-dong, posting to his Weibo account, the company is ready to impress with its upcoming MediaPad 10 tablet. He claims that it is the “most powerful tablet that ever existed.” It will be powered by something called the Hisilicon K3 V2 processor, but it has not been made clear if it will be dual- or quad-core. It might well be a quad-core beast if it shares the same heart as the forthcoming Ascend D1 Q phone. Photos of the 10-inch screen MediaPad 10 tablet have leaked, ...
Feb 22 2012
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QQ Users in China Pay For a Fake ‘Sent From My iPhone’ Hack
File this one under ‘people are vain’ and ‘not great publicity for Android.’ Some users of Tencent’s (HKG:0700) social network and IM service, QQ, are paying one of several dubious hackers up to 8 RMB (US$1.25) per month to have their status messages appear with a fake ‘Sent from my iPhone’ or ‘Sent from iPhone QQ’ tagline. The service is available only to Android users, as it requires usage of a modified version of the QQ for Android app which will transmit that fake tagline on your QQ IM profile, making ...
Feb 22 2012
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The Luxury E-Commerce Dilemma in China
China’s online space is home to over 500 million netizens, homegrown social networks and a thriving e-commerce market. While companies similar to eBay, Amazon, and Groupon exist, e-commerce has emerged as an unlikely channel for some of the world’s most prestigious luxury companies like Coach, Armani and LVMH. In fact, the increase in China’s online luxury market is dramatic. According to internet research company iResearch , the transaction volume of China’s online luxury shopping market reached an unprecedented 10.73 billion yuan in 2011, a 68.8 percent increase from 6.36 billion ...
Feb 22 2012
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Tudou Reveals New User Numbers, Says It’s the Video King of Weibo
In newly-released numbers from Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO), China’s second-largest video-streaming site, it claims to be the king of video views of Sina Weibo, the hugely popular microblogging site. Tudou cites figures from comScore in saying that “among all video views on Sina Weibo in December 2011, approximately 41 percent, or 180 million video views for the month, were from Tudou.” That’ll be a growing war in the long-term between it and Youku (NYSE:YOKU), its slightly larger rival. For now, Tudou has won this battle. Earlier this month, Tudou revealed that it had ...
Feb 21 2012
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Alibaba Group Proposes Stock Buy-Out, Delisting, For its B2B Site
At an Alibaba Group board meeting which has just finished, the e-commerce giant proposed an offer to delist its B2B site Alibaba.com (HKG:1688) from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after a massive stock buy-back. The proposal is that the company will pay HK$13.50 in cash per share, which is a premium of 60.4 percent over its last 60-day trading average closing prices. Alibaba.com, which is a platform for Chinese suppliers to sell to local and global businesses, is 73 percent-owned by Alibaba Group. Alibaba.com shareholders will soon receive a paper containing ...
Feb 21 2012
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Made-in-China Mobile Browser Takes off in India
China’s social media and online gaming giant Tencent (HKG:0700) has a stake in India’s largest gaming site Ibibo, and thus was born the iBrowser, a web browser that was conceived in China and is now taking off in India having just passed the six million download milestone. The Ibibo iBrowser app is available for Android, Symbian, and JAVA-based phones, thereby making itself available to nearly all of India’s 860 million mobile users, most of whom are on basic feature phones. iBrowser’s six million milestone comes a very short time after its formal ...
Feb 21 2012
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CyberAgent Ventures Invests in a Fun Chinese Video-Sharing Startup
Back in December of last year we predicted that social video apps would be big in China in 2012, led by a fun one called iSheHui (pictured above). And the Japanese investment firm CyberAgent Ventures seems to agree, having this week confirmed that it has invested 10 million RMB (US$1.59 million) in the startup that makes it. iSheHui is sort of an Instagram for videos, allowing users to add funky filters to an iPhone or Android smartphone vid and then easily share it with friends on Weibo. The startups two founders, ...
Feb 21 2012
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GudangVoucher Tackles Indonesia’s Online Payment Problems, Southeast Asia Next
Payment, Payment, Payment. That seems to be the biggest problem needing to be solved in the Indonesian e-commerce ecosystem right now. Previously we have looked at efforts by Indomog, Inapay, and UNIK, plus there’s Kaskus with its Kaspay. Now we have GudangVoucher as well. The company has been doing this kind of stuff for years; not to mention they are the only payment solution working with Facebook in Indonesia for its Facebook Credits, and one of the few merchants that is working with BCA, the country’s biggest private bank. Rather like Indomog, ...
Feb 21 2012
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Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: ‘Real Name’ Weibo Isn’t A Viable Solution
The real name requirements for Weibo in China is about to get realer. On March 16, 2012, all Twitter-like service providers in China need personal ID data from all users (old and new). Even though you may still post under your alias, they'd know who, say, "TomCat1234" would be, as they have your ID data on file. In a recent Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Annual Report on China's Rule of Law, as reported by China.com.cn, the real ID requirement has been singled out as something that could "bring new ...
Feb 20 2012
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Android More Than Twice as Popular as iOS in China [STATS]
China’s largest mobile ad platform, Madhouse, has released new stats which give a fresh picture of the smartphone landscape in China. It shows that, up to the very end of 2011, there has been a recent strong surge in Android usage, and that consumers are buying both cheaper and more high-end phones as iOS and Android phones spread across the social (and wage) spectrum. The stats were taken from a very broad range of apps and websites that make use of Madhouse’s mobile ad platform, allowing the Chinese company to collate ...
Feb 20 2012
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Ctrip Robot Answers Your Travel Queries on Sina Weibo
The Chinese travel e-commerce site Ctrip (NASDAQ:CTRP) has a new team member - a microblogging ‘robot’ that can reply to users of Sina Weibo, the popular microblogging service, and recommend them hotels or flights. It’s a smart bit of social marketing, allowing Weibo users to get travel suggestions right from their Weibo app of choice, with no need to even search for info. The Ctrip robot - this is its page - will reply to queries with an answer in a flash, in the form of a Weibo message containing one ...
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