Google has dropped an Android-shaped bomb on China’s mobile market, after comments from the company potentially affected some of the country’s most powerful Internet firms and their strategy of modifying…
Samsung is following in the footsteps of Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn, after an executive from the Korean electronics giant revealed it is considering plans to build a mobile manufacturing center…
Bucketlists are things I’m always cautious of. Perhaps it’s the fact that I live in Thailand, a place that seemingly every 20-something (or older) traveller has on their list; result…
When Apple’s iPhone 5 goes on sale next Friday, it will launch in a record three Asian countries: Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. However, Apple’s would-be customers in Asia were…
Getting traction for your ‘product’, whether that be a website, app, or service, is never easy. That’s an understatement and it explains why we were particularly encouraged to see the…
The public argument between a group of Chinese executives led by Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google China and founder of Innovation Works, and Andrew Left of Citron Research,…
Asian telecom giant SingTel is set to continue its focus on startup acquisitions this year through its $162.6 million (SG$200 million) ‘Innov8′ venture capitalist fund which will help finance its…
A China Unicom executive has confirmed that, as long as regulatory approval comes as expected, Apple’s new iPhone 5 will arrive on the carrier’s network within three months of the…
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba has claimed that threats from Google led to the cancellation of a planned launch of Acer’s latest smartphone in the country — the CloudMobile A800 – which…
I’m sure many of us lost hours of previous vacation time wandering the streets of an unfamiliar city wishing we had a smartphone with ready access to the Internet. There’s…
These days Facebook dominates almost every market worldwide but the social network has added a new string to its bow after it hit 15 million active users in Japan, overtaking…
Twitter has improved its geo-targeting options for Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts, the company announced on its Advertising blog. As from today, marketers can focus on users that are based…
WhatsApp — the incredibly popular multi-platform smartphone messaging app — has stepped up its strategy to tempt mobile subscribers away from SMS, signing its first carrer roaming deal with Hong…
JP Morgan’s love-in with Rocket Internet is continuing after the Germany-based incubator confirmed that the firm will invest in Lazada, its Southeast Asia-based online retailer. An announcement made today confirms recent speculation which…
After an undercover Chinese reporter documented difficult working conditions on a Foxconn production line for Apple’s next iPhone, the manufacturer has responded with a statement that it is “not perfect”…
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