Yesterday we first broke the story in English of how Amazon China had quit selling the iPad as part of the Apple vs Proview litigation over the iPad trademark. And now a much larger e-commerce store has also cleared its virtual shelves of iPads: 360buy, the second-largest such site in China. At this rate, Apple’s tablet will be facing a blanket e-commerce sales ban. Luckily I grabbed a screenshot of 360Buy’s iPad listings yesterday, and so we can compare it with the scene today where every single iPad model has had ...
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Feb 16 2012
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Amazon China and Suning Quit Selling iPads in Ongoing Trademark Battle
Two Chinese B2C e-commerce sites, Amazon China and Suning.com (SHE:002024), have removed the iPad from sale in an apparent move to avoid implication in the Apple versus Proview legal battle over the use of the iPad name in mainland China. Today, a search for ‘iPad’ or ‘iPad 2’ or any relevant permutation yields results only for accessories for (or rivals of) Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iconic tablet on both those sites (pictured above). Just two days ago, an Apple reseller in a city in central China was raided by authorities and had 45 ...
Feb 16 2012
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One Chinese City Raids an Apple Reseller in Growing iPad Trademark Row
Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple reseller (not an official brand store) over the weekend, seizing 45 iPad 2 units as part of an investigation into Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) “iPad” trademark dispute in the country. This seems to be a one-off swoop (pictured right), and the iPad remains on sale in China as a whole, so there’s no need for iPad-toting CNN reporters to rip out their hair. But there is a chance - albeit slight - of this legal case turning even nastier. We know that ...
Feb 9 2012
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Taiwan’s EZTABLE Raises $1.5 Million in Series A Round, Heads to Mainland China
Exclusive — Taiwan-based, online restaurant reservation site, EZTABLE, informed us that it has just raised $1.5 million from lead investor, Rose Park Advisors, (by Clayton Christensen and Matt Christensen), together with NineYi Capital (by Steven Ho), and appWorks (by Jamie Lin). The investment will be primarily used to expand the service to China and also to hire more talented engineers (click here if you're interested to find out more). In fact, EZTABLE China has already started with ten local restaurants already on board. Founder Alex Chen shared with me more about ...
Feb 3 2012
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Justaple: Social Bookmarking For Reading With Buddies
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, or for our RSS feed, click here. With an iPhone app and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, Justaple is a Taiwanese startup that aims to surpass the likes of Delicious, Instapaper, and Read It Later as a very connected, social bookmarking service. Justaple rips and saves your entire saved page - with the addition of videos in a future update - so that ...
Feb 12 2012
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Dr. Pad Will Help Doctors Save Your Life
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. Dr. Pad is a Taiwan-based startup that aims to be “a painkiller for doctors' headaches.” In essence, it is a mobile application designed to give doctors quick and easy access to medical data on the go. Co-founder Jacky Wang took to the stage this afternoon to explain exactly how that's good for everyone. She says that while many of us are ...
Jan 9 2012
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Groupon is Rocking the Daily Deals in Taiwan, Now Boasts Over 50% Market Share [CHART]
Here’s a sentence we’ve never uttered before: Good news for Groupon in Asia! Yes, the American group-buying service Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN) has extended its lead even further in the Taiwanese daily deals sector, and now commands over half of the market share on the island. The last time we looked at the situation in Taiwan back in July 2011, we saw Groupon had 47.7 percent market share there as the entire group-buying industry grew by 8.3 percent. The very latest data, once again from Goodlife.tw, for December shows that the entire sector ...
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 20 2011
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12 Major Android Stories From Across Asia in 2011
2011 has been a big year for Android in Asia, hitting milestones in Japan and South Korea, whilst also expanding the smartphone ecosystem across the region thanks to its open-source tweak-ability. Here are a dozen of the most significant Android-related stories we’ve covered at PO in the past year, in no particular order. Android Market Expands to 131 Countries – But Not China In a good, early omen for Android in Asia, the Android Market expanded to accept payments for apps in 131 countries across the globe. But a noticeable absentee was China, ...
Dec 21 2011
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With Help from Yushan Ventures, Startup Labs Launches in Taiwan
Startup Labs is a three week incubation program that provides seed capital, mentoring, and technical support to startups to help them validate their team and business model to later stage investors. Selected teams in Taiwan will be picked and given $30,000 USD to go through the three week program. And for Taiwan, the Startup Labs program will start next year on February 10th. Of course, Startup Labs in Taiwan can’t be a reality without local support. Yushan Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Taiwan, is one the key drivers. Other ...
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 16 2011
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The Tudou vs Youku Copyright Clash Continues, as Tudou Wields Evidence
Today’s quickly escalating war of words between the two Chinese video-streaming sites Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) and Youku (NYSE:YOKU) - which centers on alleged TV show piracy, with both sides accusing the other of it - is still rumbling on. And now Tudou has provided notarized proof that Youku pirated seven episodes of one Taiwanese chat show and included those in its series catalog. Here’s the first claim from last night, and then the counter-claim this morning. A Tudou representative told PO that: The lawsuit against Tudou is Youku’s trick to distract ...
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