Korean mobile messaging app Kakao Talk has introduced free voice calls to its WhatsApp-like service, allowing its worldwide iPhone and Android users to make calls on the service for nothing…
Berlin-based Internet startup incubator Team Europe is expanding to Asia with the establishment of a “market-watch” office in Seoul, South Korea. It will be headed by German-Korean Ludolf Ebner-Chung, a…
Apple is being tipped to introduce a much anticipated update that brings support for search services from China’s Baidu into iOS next month, according to Chinese reports that cite comment…
China Telecom has launched a UK mobile service this week, just in time for the upcoming Olympic Games in London, and revealed plans to expand its operations to other key European…
Sony and Sharp have announced that their joint venture to develop large LCD panels is to end, with Sony getting back its full $125.79 million investment in the Sharp Display…
The Chinese government has confirmed that the country now has more than 1 billion mobile phone users, after revealing that the first quarter of the year saw an additional 43 million…
International-focused TV and video site Viki has made a significant move into the music space, after it announced deals with a number of record labels and agencies, most notably Warner Music,…
China may be the world’s fastest growing smartphone market but the country’s growing app space is a very different one to that of North America, Europe and other Western markets….
The first analyst data evaluating China’s smartphone industry in Q1 2012 is out, with Apple reported to have more than doubled its market share, according data from Woori Investment and…
Google has introduced Business Photos in India, extending the global reach of the service that helps retailers attract customers by posting panoramic photos of their store or shop-front to the Web….
Have you heard of K-Pop? Two years ago the answer would almost certainly be no, unless you were living in Korea and other parts of Asia, but today the Korean…
Just one day after Pakistani authorities reported Twitter to Interpol, a criminal case has been filed against Facebook, and three other websites in a Pakistani police station today, the Express…
Telecom group SingTel has made another notable acquisition after it announced the $9.4 million (SG$12 million) purchase of Singaporean food website HungryGoWhere, further expanding its business outside of its core telecom focus….
Xfire, which operates an online community for gamers, has raised $3 million in new funding. The company previously secured $4 million in financing from Intel Capital in 2011, so this…
Microsoft is keeping quiet on reports suggesting that brisk sales of Windows Phone 7-based devices in China have propelled its overall market share up to seven percent, taking it past rival…
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