Francis Tan

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• Checking work emails outside office hours annoys partners, study says

  Over 35 per cent of people who own a smartphone check their work emails in their free time and end up annoying their other ...

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• Sina Weibo ramps up efforts to establish a real-identity social network

  Sina Weibo is pushing a new user verification program called DaRen (达人) in a bid to build a real-identity social network ...

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• Latest Tweetbot update brings "experimental" push notifications, but not for everyone

  Tweetbot has released a new update for its iOS app, which now includes push notifications support, and various bug fixes. ...

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• Smartphones are taking over wallets in Canada [Infographic]

  Canadians are adopting banking apps on their smartphone rapidly and are slowly ditching wallets in favor of banking on the ...

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• South Korea to regulate incentives given to bloggers

  South Korea's Fair Trade Commission aims to curb influential bloggers who get compensation from companies in return for favorable ...

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• Apple makes first payout in S. Korea over user location tracking

  Apple Korea paid its first ever compensation to a Korean iPhone user over a controversial function that tracks users' locations ...

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• E-commerce in China to quadruple by 2015, official says

  China's e-commerce industry will grow quickly in the next five years and its transactions are expected to quadruple by 2015 ...

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• Sina Weibo to launch virtual currency in Q3

  Reuters reports that Sina Weibo, China's twitter-like microblogging service, will launch a virtual currency by third quarter ...

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• Twitter now supports Japanese hashtags

  Twitter finally announced in a blog post its official support for Japanese hashtags.

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• China Telecom to launch iPhone before year's end

  China Telecom could be the second operator to offer iPhones in China, the world's largest mobile phone market, following ...

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• Baidu releases web-based Android app store for mobile. No app required.

  Baidu has just released a web-based Android app store, accessible via the Baidu Mobile homepage on Android smartphones. No ...

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• Digital distribution is the future of the gaming industry, report shows

  $1.85 billion was spent on non-traditional means of acquiring and experiencing video game content including social and mobile ...

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