Google Shuts Down Its Shopping Service in China
8:12 pm PST • December 11, 2012
Google just announced it is shutting down its Google Shopping China service. The website is still online, but Google confirmed its closure in a post on its China blog (link…
Twitter Mobile Now Available In Arabic And Farsi
6:25 pm PST • December 11, 2012
Twitter just announced that its mobile Web site is now available in Arabic and Farsi. The main Twitter site has been available in those two languages, as well as Hebrew…
Media & Entertainment
Social Discovery Site Drimmit Gives Dreamers A Visual Bucket List
10:58 pm PST • December 10, 2012
Drimmit is a simple, straightforward online platform that allows users to create “dream boards” filled with visual representations of their hopes and aspirations. The Web site, which placed second at…
Adobe Closes Taiwan Sales Office, Alarming Local Tech Observers
10:19 pm PST • December 10, 2012
Adobe announced today that it has closed its Taiwan sales office. A statement from Ng Yew Hwee, Adobe’s managing director of Greater China (posted in a JPEG, not a PDF)…
Media & Entertainment
Australian Police Warn Against Apple Maps, Citing “Potentially Life Threatening” Misdirection
10:48 pm PST • December 9, 2012
Police in Victoria have urged motorists to avoid the use of Apple Maps, warning that faulty directions on the much-criticized app has left motorists stranded in the Australian outback for…
Media & Entertainment
Samsung Unveils Its “Premium Suite Upgrade” For The Galaxy S III
7:15 pm PST • December 9, 2012
Samsung has unveiled its “Premium Suite Upgrade” for the Galaxy S III, as promised in a teaser last Friday. The update includes the highly anticipated Multi-Window feature, which is already…
Yahoo Announces Another Content Deal, This Time With NBC Sports
6:42 pm PST • December 9, 2012
Yahoo! Sports and NBC Sports Group just announced a content alliance that will cover news, fantasy and video coverage of sports events. In a press release, the two said that…
Startups
Singapore Startup, The Stakeholder Company, Applies Algorithms To Public Relations
10:24 pm PST • December 6, 2012
Founded by a former Microsoft lead, The Stakeholder Company’s aim is to help organizations maintain their public image by streamlining research. The Singapore-based startup uses patented software to make decisions…
Media & Entertainment
New Version Of The Apple-HTC Agreement Reveals More About The Deal
11:21 pm PST • December 5, 2012
Samsung has filed a redacted version of the Apple-HTC settlement and license agreement as part of the injunction court hearing scheduled to take place in federal court later today. Samsung…
Startups
The Lives Of Others: Civo Gives Strangers A Friendly Place For “Visual Conversation”
8:41 pm PST • December 5, 2012
Civo is a beautiful new social discovery app that breaks users out of their social or geographic networks without forcing them to leave their comfort zones. It went live last…
Nokia announced today that it is partnering with China Mobile to bring the Lumia 920T to Chinese consumers. It will be the first Windows Phone to support the country’s TD-SCMA…
Media & Entertainment
Yahoo’s Not Quite Done With Alibaba: Its People Person Jacqueline Reses Just Joined The Board
10:27 pm PST • December 4, 2012
Yahoo may have finally reached a deal this past September to sell a 40% stake in China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba for $7.6 billion, but with a 23% stake left in…
Hardware
PhoneScope 3D Gives iPhone Users A High-Res 3D Scanner in Their Pocket
10:49 pm PST • December 3, 2012
The PhoneScope 3D offers high-resolution magnified 3D scanning that can have applications for users ranging from forensics specialists to CGI animators. But its developers mostly just want people to have…
Media & Entertainment
Set Your iOS to Stunned: New Version of the Star Trek PADD App Now Available
9:15 pm PST • December 3, 2012
Ever used your iOS device to imagine yourself as Lt. Nyota Uhura receiving an urgent communique from Starfleet? Then you are in luck — the second version of the official…
Media & Entertainment
China Unicom Receives Orders for More Than 100,000 iPhone 5 Units
7:33 pm PST • December 3, 2012
China Unicom announced that it received orders for more than 100,000 iPhone 5 units on its first day of pre-sales, according to a report on Sina Tech. A subsidiary of…
Startups
Golden Gate Ventures And JFDI.Asia Announce Strategic Alliance For Asian Startups
6:46 pm PST • December 2, 2012
Top Southeast Asia VCs Golden Gate Ventures and JFDI.Asia have announced a new strategic alliance that will focus on supporting early-stage digital start-up companies as they transition from concept to…
Startups
Eumakh Takes English-Speaking K-Pop Fans Beyond “Gangnam Style”
8:11 am PST • November 28, 2012
Has being blasted with “Gangnam Style” whetted your appetite for Korean pop, but you have no idea how to delve more deeply into the genre? Eumakh is an online video…
Media & Entertainment
Baidu Is Building Its Mobile Strategy But Says Don’t Discount PC Yet
12:45 am PST • November 27, 2012
Baidu shares have fallen 18% over the last quarter as investors worry that the search giant won’t be able to monetize its mobile business quickly enough to outpace domestic competitors…
Media & Entertainment
China’s Google, Baidu, Raises $1.5B In Bond Sale To Pay Down Debt And Fund M&A
12:11 am PST • November 21, 2012
Baidu, China’s search behemoth, has announced that it is raising $1.5 billion in a two-part bond sale to write down debt and build up its warchest: Baidu remains the country’s…
