Chinese characters can look like arcane codes, cryptic communiqué, that conspire to obscure the meanings of an ancient culture. But new, hi-tech tools can help anyone wrap their ears, eyes, and tongues around those swoops and shapes. The Mandarin Madness app, from the Australian startup Native Tongue, is one such tool, which aims to help total beginners grasp the simple sound and meaning behind many common characters. Plus, the app - now newly launched on iPhone and iPad - has game-ified the activity of learning, with points, flash cards, and ...
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Startup Grepsr Wants to Make Data Collection Easy
Grepsr is one of the more intriguing startups I’ve come across in a while. It is a data extraction and web crawling service which you can use if you need to automate data collection from places on the web. Initially I thought this was simply a data scraping tool, but upon closer inspection ‘service’ does seem to be a more apt description as there is some human involvement from the Grepsr team as well. I spoke to Amit Chowdhury, who explained that Grepsr is a just a two-man operation so ...
Dec 20 2011
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Japan’s Mediba Makes Mobile Advertising Agreement with Australia Leadbolt
A couple of months back we told you about how Japan’s Mediba Inc was branching out to establish a Singapore office to help its expanding mobile advertising business in the Asia region. And today we received word that the company is to cooperate with Australian mobile advertising company Leadbolt. The partnership is aimed at improving each company’s ad business according to the announcement: Through this collaboration, advertising sponsors who place advertisements on the “mediba ad powered by AdMaker” can expect increased advertising effectiveness and the ability to significantly expand ...
Nov 9 2011
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Hubblr: A New Dashboard for Global Social Marketing – China Included
There are a lot of social media dashboards out there that try to bring together your social missives, but only one includes integration with China’s hippest social network - that’s Hubblr. It’s a brand-new, enterprise-oriented web app from an Australian start-up that’s aimed at making PR and online marketing across the globe - including China - a safer and slicker experience. Hubblr’s CEO and co-founder, Michael Lam (pictured right), gave me a guided tour over Skype, and then we coincidentally ran into each other again at TC Disrupt Beijing last week, giving ...
Nov 3 2011
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BBC.com Steps Up Efforts to Localize News for Asia
International premier news portal BBC.com has launched three new dedicated editions of its website for India, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand respectively. These new editions will reportedly offer an “immersive and localized” BBC.com experience for its audience. It will provide in-depth analysis and breaking news coverage that will appeal to the audience’s needs and interests. To aid with this coverage, BBC.com has built a new Asia-Pacific team based in Singapore who will be working alongside other journalists from the BBC’s international news service. Chris Davies, acting managing director, for BBC.com explained: At ...
Oct 25 2011
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Corporate Use of Social Media Across Asia [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Burson Marsteller (BM) has just released its Asia-Pacific Corporate Social Media Study for 2011, giving insights - and infographics - that cover how companies are using social media in the region. This year's study paints a picture of brands being ever more keen to engage with consumers via social media, yet still not doing some things very effectively - such as failing to use video on social video-sharing sites, and not maintaining corporate blogs where ...
Aug 26 2011
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Drumo is a Quora-like Location-based Service
Start-up Drumo is a platform to connect users and small businesses to find out what’s hot and happening right now in their local area. It isn’t a Twitter trend platform; rather, Drumo encourages you to ask questions to find out more about your area (video below). Think about it. We usually search for information on the web. Google, Bing, and Yahoo give us good results based on algorithms. But are they the best? At times, not. That is why Quora, the Q&A platform, has been flourishing recently. We often get more ...
Aug 10 2011
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BugHerd Makes Life Easier for Designers and People Who Complain About Their Designs
If you’re a web designer or website owner, you understand the pain of bug tracking when you’re in the process of building a new site. It often involves constant email exchanges with screenshots and comments between the designer and client. Not necessary the best way to communicate things. Perhaps, sharing a screen on Skype could help. This is much better but it still requires both parties to arrange a common meeting time on Skype and it doesn’t allow you to take notes digitally on the problems. Sigh… There is obviously a problem ...
Jun 29 2011
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Microsoft Launches Office 365 in Asia
We love it when there isn’t much lag time in product launches between the U.S and Asia market. So we thought it was pretty neat when Microsoft announced the availability today of Office 365 in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. (Unfortunately, the launch isn’t for all countries in Asia though.) So what is Microsoft’s Office 365 all about? Well in short, a cloud-based IT enterprise solution. It helps businesses, both big and small, to collaborate online: Online real-time document sharing/editing Instant messaging Video and web meetings Secure email with calendar integration and more ActiveSync, which lets you ...
May 6 2011
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XL Expands BlackBerry Data Service to US and Australia
To support BlackBerry's Internet Service, Indonesian telco XL Axiata is cooperating with AT&T in the US and Telstra in Australia to expand Blackberry’s flat data roaming service, launching Blackberry Prepaid Roaming for both countries. XL previously conducted some trials among participants of the BlackBerry World Conference in Orlando, Florida from May 3 - 5, 2011. XL hopes to improve its service with the feedback obtained from these participants. The prepaid roaming service can now be enjoyed by XL Blackberry customers in the US and Australia at a cost of only US$6 per ...
Mar 25 2011
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Hi Australia and New Zealand: iPad 2 Is Here
The iPad 2 has finally launched in Australia and New Zealand... You have waited long, we know, especially after browsing the photos by BeauGiles on Flickr. Apple consumers are now able to purchase the gadget via its website since 1 am but shipments are likely to be delayed as the world is running short of iPad 2. The wait has to go on until 5 pm local time today, though. Be patient, mingle with other Apple fans and get excited over the iPad 2. Your hours of waiting probably isn’t as bad ...
Mar 23 2011
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LinkedIn in Asia: India 9, Australia 2, China 1 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Congrats to LinkedIn, you hit the 100 million users milestone! Out of the 100 million, 56 million users are based outside the United States. LinkedIn also said that India is one of the fastest growing countries with a 76 percent annual growth rate in 2010. In absolute terms, India has over 9 million users while other prominent LinkedIn Asian countries include China and Australia has about one million and 1.94 million users, respectively. Thanks to China, LinkedIn was able to celebrate its 100 million milestone earlier. The professional social network site was banned ...
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