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Qualcomm Leads Series C Funding into a Chinese Online English Education Startup
With a claimed 10 million registered users right now, Chinese online education company Alo7 has wrapped up a third major round of funding. The sum is the usually vague eight-digit figure, so it could...
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WebGeek Taps Software Devs to Answer Social Issues at Social Innovation Camp...
Software developers and designers can change the world. Or, at least for WebGeek Philippines, these talents can bring solutions to today’s social problems through web or mobile. A huge number of...
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Digital, creative and marketing jobs pay less in Singapore, but why?
Digital, creative and marketing spaces have seen an influx of jobs in Singapore recently. However, salaries have been going down. Why is this the case? While Singapore has been ramping up its...
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SI Camp Asia Now Seeking Ideas for Civic Startups, Visits 7 Countries This...
We’re a big fan of civic-minded startups here at TechinAsia, though we don’t find that many of them. Thankfully a lot more will be blossoming soon at the upcoming Social Innovation Camp Asia 2013....
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Freelancer Wants to Meet the Best Filipino Software Developers
(Update: The company reports that they already have around 300,000 registered Filipino freelancers, wherein 61,000 of which are are in the IT/software industry.) Global outsourcing and crowdsourcing...
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Creators of PageSnapp Get Travel Grant to Silicon Valley from First AngelHack...
A group of Philippine developers created a big idea. So big that it that will bring them to Silicon Valley. This group is the Davao and Pampanga-based developers who created PageSnapp, a web...
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Singapore Haze Craze Lights a Fire on Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
Every single time we’ve used the ‘pollution’ tag on this blog it’s been in relation to China. But this time, Singapore is the one choking on its chewable air due to illegal burning of forests on...
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Pakistani Startup Artsly Launches with $175,000 in Backing From Kima Ventures
Adam Dawood is the founding partner of DYL Ventures, a Pakistan-centric venture capital and consultancy firm. You can find him on Twitter as @adamdawood. Sibling entrepreneurs Muhammad Huzaifa and...
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TeknoJurnal’s Rock Star Dev 2013: What are Young Indonesian Developers...
This has been quite a busy month for Indonesian developers with events like AngelHack and the upcoming Jakarta Startup Weekend. We just attended another one hosted by Indonesian tech website...
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Groopic: This Pakistani Startup’s New iPhone App Puts The Photographer Back...
A Lahore-based startup is prepping the launch of an amazing iPhone app that puts the photographer – usually the one stuck behind the lens – back in the picture. Called Groopic, the makers describe it...
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With This New App We Can All Be Wide-Eyed, Pale-Skinned Manga Characters
There’s an especially big industry in Asia for beautification apps that can make their female users look slimmer, cuter, wider of eye, paler of skin. Though it’s a bit problematic that those have...
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In The Philippines, SMS Textbooks Are The Future Of Education
Smartphone adoption in Asia is increasing, but feature phones still dominate some areas. 例如, 89 percent of the Metro Manila population are still using feature phones. Advertising agency DM9JaymeSyfu...
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91Waijiao Connects Chinese With Foreign English Teachers, Gets $4 Million...
Education site 91Waijiao is a learning platform that connects Chinese of all ages with foreign English teachers. It’s a neat idea to disrupt China’s ‘English as a foreign language’ (EFL) 市場, which is...
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E-Wheelchair Creators Raise $1 Million, Roll Closer to Shipping in 2014
While everyone’s talking about Tesla and Terra, there are plenty of other startups working on electric vehicles. One such group of innovators is Japan’s Whill, who make an e-wheelchair that promises...
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iPhonesia is The Biggest iPhone Photography Community in Indonesia
By Dewi Yuliani | 技術在亞洲 Even with so many good mobile phones hitting the Indonesian market and showing off their high quality cameras, the iPhone still has its own loyal fans. This is proven by...
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Honey, I Shrunk The Kids With This 3D Printing Service
3D printing is not yet an everyday mundanity, so there are many ways in which it’s still a great novelty. Japanese startup Fotofig has recognized this and is creating mini figures of people using only...
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