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The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. New information from the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank confirms what we’ve been talking about on this blog for some time now. Singapore is one of the friendliest environments on the planet for entrepreneurs. View map full size The latest Doing Business report ranks Singapore at the top of its ‘ease of doing business’ rankings for the sixth straight year. The nation is also rated high in trading across borders, protecting investors, and ...
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Feb 16 2012
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The Old Republic Launches in Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1
The Old Republic, Bioware's latest MMO and the best recent shot at World of Warcraft's crown, is coming to Asia. Specifically, the game will launch March 1 in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Through digital download, some gamers in those regions may have purchased the game already and begun playing it on American or European servers, but Bioware says those players will have "a limited-time opportunity to migrate their characters from their current servers to Asia Pacific servers after the launch on March 1st." Previously on Penn Olson, we ...
Feb 10 2012
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360Buy Opens a Hotel Booking Site, Now Has a Full Online Travel Service
China’s second-largest e-commerce site, 360Buy, continues its very aggressive expansion today with the launch of a hotel booking site. It’s quite a break away from the company’s usual focus on books, electronics, and clothing, and is a significant threat to the country’s main travel services, Ctrip (NASDAQ:CTRP), Elong (NASDAQ:LONG), and Qunar. The B2C e-commerce site started selling plane tickets last summer, and so now it has augmented its offering to the point that it has a fully-fledged travel service. The new portal, at hotel.360buy.com, also includes discounted daily deals on hotel ...
Jan 26 2012
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Nokia’s Sales in China Down 40% Last Year, Only Hope Rests in WP7
The final quarter of 2011 proved to be another chapter in Nokia’s (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) horror story in China with the Finnish phone-maker reporting a drop of 40 percent in net sales compared to the same period in 2010. According to its newly-released unaudited results, the volume of devices sold in Greater China dropped 33 percent from Q4 2010 to the same quarter of 2011. It’s nothing new for Nokia, whose sales have been trending downwards in China for quite some time. The quarter-on-quarter figures are not so dramatic: sales down 19 ...
Jan 10 2012
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Openbar App Wants to Go Drinking with You in Hong Kong
I have a bit of a weakness for ‘hyperlocal’ websites and apps that map important information about cities that others can benefit from. In the few years that I lived in Dalian, China, me and some friends put worked on a website that provided mapped restaurant and bar listings as well as other important points of interest. These days, of course, such services very often come in the form of apps. Take for example, Openbar, an iPhone application that provides users with information about bars and clubs all over the ...
Jan 4 2012
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8 Securities Nails $8 Million in Funding, Ready to Launch to Public Soon
Hong Kong-based startup 8 Securities has recently closed a round of funding worth US$8 million, according to co-founder and CEO Mikaal Abdulla, in conversation with PO. The company’s service is a a socially-engaged “trading portal” that makes it easy for anyone to invest in financial markets using its app-ified dashboard - as we saw when Mikaal and his team made it through to the TC Disrupt Beijing Startup Battlefield which we live-blogged back in November. Since then, 8 Securities has been in private beta. But now it’s ready for primetime having ...
Jan 3 2012
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Apple’s Chinese New Year Sales Go Online on Friday, in China and Across Asia
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is apparently keen to celebrate Chinese new year - more popularly known as Spring Festival here - with a “one-day Apple shopping event,” which we hope means ‘sale,’ on Friday, January 6th. As spotted by the 9to5Mac crew, this is running in the Apple online stores in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The Chinese online store (which is here), like all those others in the region, is running that promo artwork showing a dragon of colourful iPads with smart covers (pictured above). Yes, this ...
Dec 27 2011
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How to See What’s Trending on Sina Weibo Without Speaking Chinese
Sina Weibo is the much-talked about Chinese microblogging platform which now has about 250 million users. But language barriers can make it tricky for many people around the world to get a window onto what’s happening on Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) service. And that’s why the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) has cooked-up a useful website that’ll allow anyone to do a visual search for what’s hot right now on Weibo, in pretty much any language. The JMSC folks call it WeiboScope, and it features two kinds of ...
Dec 20 2011
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Web, Smartphones, and Social Media are Thriving in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Across Asia, countries seem to be split into those who’re well hooked-up to the high-speed web, and those who access instead from mobiles and PC cafés - with only mainland China somewhat torn between those two states of being. But in the Greater China area, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau are certainly in the first group - enjoying high rates of internet penetration on an uncensored web whilst also having over 100 percent phone ownership, ...
Dec 13 2011
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Meizu’s New Hong Kong Store Looks Ready for Upcoming Meizu MX Launch
This is going to be a big month for the Chinese gadget manufacturer Meizu as it opens a flagship Hong Kong store in time for the launch of its dual-core Meizu MX phone on January 1st. And it all seems to be going to plan, as these photos show the store - located in the busy shopping area of Mongkok - pretty much ready to open its doors. The Meizu team knows it needs to up its game now, having been outpaced by the brand-new Xiaomi phone which has stolen Meizu’s ...
Dec 9 2011
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Asia Loves Android Apps, Has Most Downloads Per Capita [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. To commemorate its 10 billion apps milestone, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has released a great infographic which shows more details about Android’s astounding achievements. Now with over one billion app downloads every 30 days, Android’s growth shows no signs of slowing. And according to Google, Asia sits at the core of that growth. Their graphic shows that four of the top five “app-crazed countries” are in Asia: South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. The ...
Nov 23 2011
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Prolific Hong Kong Game Studio Closes Funding Round
The prolific Hong Kong game development company Animoca, which has produced over 150 social gaming titles for iOS and Android since it started in January of this year, has closed a round of series-A funding. The final sum was not revealed, but it’s believed to be well over ten million US dollars; investment came from Intel Capital and IDG-Accel. Animoca makes a lot of cutesy casual games such as Pretty Pet Salon (pictured above), Pretty Pet Tycoon, and Cinderella Café, which all come under its ‘Dream Cortex’ mobile gaming brand. It ...
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Feb 22, 2012
One Day After Deadline, Tuanbao’s New Services Still Missing
Feb 21, 2012
InMobi Makes Mobile Ad Deal With Detikcom in Indonesia
Feb 22, 2012
GREE Gets Games from Gameloft, Ubisoft for Global Gaming Platform
Feb 21, 2012
Bandwagon Wants You To Jump Onboard its Live Music Search Engine
Feb 22, 2012