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Confirmed: Norway’s Telenor and Qatar’s Ooredoo Win Bid to Build Myanmar’s...
Newly opened-up ປະເທດມຽນມາ has this afternoon confirmed the winners of the multi-billion dollar bid to build the country’s next-generation mobile network. According to the Myanmar government’s...
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BPI Updates Its Mobile App, Allows Users to Detect Nearest ATM
Earlier this week, we discussed the growth that is happening in the m-banking space in the Philippines. ມື້ນີ້, the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is continuing the theme by launching a major...
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Keywords Search Tool Phroni Launches As an Add-On For 2 More Mobile Browsers
Remember the useful tool from our Startup Arena contest last year that creates links out of certain text in a browser? It’s called Phroni. Having been available for a while only as an add-on for...
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Momo: With 40 Million Users, China’s Top Flirting App Adds Stickers, Virtual...
Momo, China’s top flirting and hook-up app, has updated to v4.0 on both iPhone and Android and added a bunch of new features – all of which are aimed at monetization. Ever since we first looked at...
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Don’t have a privacy policy? Then, forget about Windows Phone Store
The top reason Indonesian apps get rejected from the Windows Phone Store is that they don’t have a privacy policy. Ahead of the Build conference on Wednesday night in Jakarta, Microsoft emphasized a...
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Uber Launches in Taiwan, Its Second Asian Launch This Week
As was suggested by recent job recruitment ads, online car pick-up company Uber has expanded to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The Uber blog has just revealed that Uber Taipei will be in stealth mode...
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Ayannah wants to bring online payments to the “unbanked”
Ayannah has closed a US$1 million funding round and seeks to enable access to financial services for the “unbanked” sector. e-Commerce is a growing industry in Southeast Asia, although there is still a...
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I Lost My Virginity to a Didi Dache Taxi Driver That Cold, Rainy Night
The weather in Beijing has been gloomy of late, and just when I was queuing up to buy some cheap egg tarts along Houhai for friends visiting Beijing, it started pouring with rain and we had to head...
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Tudlo: Keeping You Safe Even When Disaster Strikes
Don’t you wish you could know when an accident or calamity will hit your area? With that information, you would then be better prepared and know how to react. ແນ່ນອນ, everyone wants to be safe when a...
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India’s NewsHunt App Nearly Outflips Flipboard, Hits 10 Billion Page-Views
India’s top homegrown news reader app has hit 10 billion page-views, the startup revealed today. NewsHunt was launched in June 2009 and hit the five billion milestone last October. Available on iOS,...
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Secure communications app Reline opens registration for beta testers
Can secure communications app Reline succeed? ອາທິດສຸດທ້າຍ, they just announced open beta for testers. At AngelHack Jakarta, a number of teams produced quite a few solid product prototypes but none...
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Philippines takes traffic data and challenges developers for solutions
Philippine transportation authorities have launched an app development competition that aims to leverage two years’ worth of traffic research. Stuck in traffic? Admittedly, even with mapping and...
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Zalo Reports 3 Million Users in Vietnam With 30 Million Messages Sent Per Day
I know most of you have heard a lot (probably too much) about the messaging app battle by now, what with Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Whatsapp, Viber and others battling across the region. Well, back here...
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Ohdio’s new approach emphasizes radio-like experience
Ohdio is a music-streaming service that gives Indonesians a modern way to enjoy music that can be chosen by mood or playlist. A few days ago Ohdio was relaunched with a brand new design and an entirely...
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In a Major Milestone, Korean-Made KakaoTalk Reaches 100 Million Users
After three years and three months in action, the Korean startup KakaoTalk has surpassed 100 million users on its social messaging app. It’s a major milestone for the app in this frenziedly competitive...
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This Chinese App Aims to Be Evernote for Realtors
Evernote is great for many things, but for specialist uses that involve lots of photos and categorization it would just be a pain. That’s why ປະເທດຈີນ-based startup Zushou365, which focuses on...
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Globe Telecom Partnership Means Traveling Koreans and Filipinos Can Enjoy 4G...
4G LTE is the new trend when it comes to mobile internet browsing. But do you wish that you could use your roaming number and have the same LTE experience when you’re traveling? Well, if you’re Korean...
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Beijing Reverses Ban on Extra Tariffs in Taxi Finder Apps, But Imposes Fee Limit
As seen in my colleague’s recent review of China’s top taxi finder app, such apps let potential passengers bid extra cash to get a cab driver to go pick them up. It’s common to have to bid as much as...
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PropertyGuru’s Rumah.com Completes Mobile Line-Up With New iPhone App
When Rumah.com was acquired by Singapore’s PropertyGuru in 2011, it was a “horrible website” in terms of looks, but was always graced by high traffic simply because of its excellent domain name –...
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3G Service Coming to Myanmar Next Year
Following in the news that it was chosen as one of two companies to build Mynamar’s new mobile network, Norwegian telecom Telenor has announced that it will be rolling out 3G service in the country,...
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