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How a Start-up Fights to Bring Local Language to Mobile Phones in Laos
Beautiful Laos. Credit: Todd Adams Most of us have mobile phones in our preferred language. Now imagine trying to use a phone whose software is all in a foreign language. I believe most of you would...
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Who Needs PCs? Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Opt For the Mobile Web [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos are areas that don’t get too much coverage in the tech press –...
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Thanks To A Startup, Laos Will Have An Official Lao Unicode Font in 2012
Lao Unicode font coming to your mobile. For many years, the people of Laos haven’t been able to use the Lao language on their mobile phones because it isn’t standardized or supported. So as a...
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WP8 to Bring Marketplace and App Hub to More Countries: Here’s the Asia List
Now that the world knows that Windows Phone 8 (WP8) will roll out later this year, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is also keen [1] to let people know that its app store is expanding globally as well. An...
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No Amazon Appstore for Indonesia and China – Here’s the Full List for Asia
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced yesterday the expansion of its Android Appstore to “nearly 200 countries” but didn’t specify the full list. So we asked Amazon where in Asia-Pacific its app store will...
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The fastest growing Facebook nations in Asia (first quarter 2012)
A version of this article was first published on Grey Review. Facebook has over 850 million users worldwide. Out of that, a total of 194 million users are from Asia at the end of March 2012. Most of...
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iTunes store arrives at 12 Asian countries, lets users buy music and movies
Starting from today, consumers in 12 Asian countries can finally purchase local and international music, as well as rent or purchase movie from the iTunes store. These countries are: Singapore, Hong...
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Thai/Japanese Kickstarter Anipipo partners with Thai Cartoon Club to...
The winner of Khun Seuk VS Samurai: The Second Thai-Japanese X-Culture Startup Pitching, an event by SIPA, Software Park, and Microsoft, Anipipo is an Animation-focused crowdfunding site. At the...
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The pain and the passion behind building Asian language keyboard apps
This past weekend, I briefly mentioned the Perfect Tibetan Keyboard app, which allows Tibetan text input across a variety of platforms. Also, in December 2011, TechinAsia covered the launch of...
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Plateculture founders: the concept might be feminine but we’re a very...
Malaysia-based startup PlateCulture is an Airbnb for food. It allows users to eat home-cooked meals from someone’s home. The concept is as simple as the customers go to the site, pick a home (similar...
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Southeast Asia has more than 190 million internet users (INFOGRAPHIC)
Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse and fast changing regions in the world. It’s home to over 600 million people spread across eleven different countries. Startups from across the region are not...
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The state of 4G in Southeast Asia
GSMA predicts that by the end of 2017, there will be close to 500 live LTE networks across 128 countries worldwide. Right now, territories in Asia such as Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong are among...
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Southeast Asia-born Paypal competitor 2C2P secures $2 million funding
2C2P, an online payment processing company, has concluded a $2 million Series B financing round, led by $1.5 million from an undisclosed investor and $500,000 from Japan-based GMO Payment Gateway,...
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How’s Southeast Asia performing in the internet speed race? (INFOGRAPHIC)
Last year it was revealed that 42 percent of the world’s internet users are in Asia. But is the demand for the web being met with decent internet speeds? According to a new infographic released by...
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Health hacks to fight against the next global pandemic
This post is co-authored by Joseph Agoada, communications advisor at @InSTEDD and Tharum Bun, communications lead at @iLabSEA. Participants from around the world – from the healthcare and tech sectors...
View ArticleHow a Start-up Fights to Bring Local Language to Mobile Phones in Laos
Most of us have mobile phones in our preferred language. Now imagine trying to use a phone whose software is all in a foreign language. I believe most of you would feel lost. And that is exactly what...
View ArticleWho Needs PCs? Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Opt For the Mobile Web [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos are areas that don’t get too much coverage in the tech press –...
View ArticleThanks To A Startup, Laos Will Have An Official Lao Unicode Font in 2012
For many years, the people of Laos haven’t been able to use the Lao language on their mobile phones because it isn’t standardized or supported. So as a substitute, many are communicating in Thai or...
View ArticleThe fastest growing Facebook nations in Asia (first quarter 2012)
A version of this article was first published on Grey Review. Facebook has over 850 million users worldwide. Out of that, a total of 194 million users are from Asia at the end of March 2012. Most of...
View ArticleiTunes store arrives at 12 Asian countries, lets users buy music and movies
Starting from today, consumers in 12 Asian countries can finally purchase local and international music, as well as rent or purchase movie from the iTunes store. These countries are: Singapore, Hong...
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