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China Digest – 8 Aug
Here you can find some interesting startup news from China, not only in its capital, Beijing, but also other startup hubs such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, and many more. (1) Sina Weibo...
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Singapore’s Swiff Works Like Square, But For B2B
This is Swiff, not Square! As many already know, Square, the oh-so-convenient mobile payment system, is only available in the U.S. So Asians like me can only read and wait for its availability in Asia....
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Alipay To Invest $79 Million To Create ‘Square-like Payment Devices’
Update: We have included the Alipay COD device pictures below. We received news from Alipay about its plans to invest RMB500 million (US$79 million) to upgrade China’s cash-on-delivery (COD) payment...
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MyGrahak.com Rolls Out Card on Delivery Service. It’s Not a Square Though
Cash on delivery is no longer cool. Perhaps inspired by Square, so-called ‘card on delivery,’ or in other words, paying using a credit card when the couriers deliver to your doorstep, is a very...
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Swiff launches mobile credit card reader, but can it compete with PayPal?
With the open nature of the Internet, every tech startup faces the risk of being quickly rendered obsolete by well-moneyed technology giants. For example, when Facebook Timeline launched, a small...
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Swiff: One More Square-like Payment Solution Launches in Asia
We wrote about Swiff a couple of months ago, and perhaps a few of you were curious to hear more about it. We just learned that the mobile payment device has now officially launched today. In short,...
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PayPal Here to launch in Singapore later this year; competes head-on with Swiff
All gloves are off in the battle for mobile payment dominance in Asia. In one corner is mighty PayPal, which will launch its own mobile credit card reader called PayPal Here in Singapore later this...
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One of China’s Top Square Clones Swipes Funding From Sequoia
Lots of services are battling to be China’s equivalent of Square, the smartphone add-on that allows anyone to accept credit card payments. Prime among these is Qianfang, which has received an...
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Bank Launches Square-like Device in the Philippines
You seldom hear of banks or financial establishments involving themselves directly in technology trends or releases, at least not directly, and even more so in the Philippines. Yes, we’ve had...
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Square Makes First Overseas Move, Launches in Japan
Japan has long had square watermelons, and now it has Square for mobile payments too. This marks the first overseas expansion for Square, the funky iPhone add-on gadget that lets anyone swipe credit...
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Web-based strategy game Sengokuixa lets players follow in footsteps of...
Indonesian game developer Agate Studio recently released the web-based RTS game Sengokuixa, with the game industry titan Square Enix co-developing the game. The game has been released in Japan for...
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Gaming industry turns to Indonesia: Square Enix collaborates with Agate Studio
Agate Studio recently released web-based real-time strategy game Sengokuixa in Indonesia. To the surprise of many indonesian gamers, developers, and gaming media, Agate co-developed it with Square...
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Relive a classic adventure: Final Fantasy V now available on Android
Android users who are fans of the Final Fantasy franchise will be glad to know that Final Fantasy V, one of the series’ earlier installments, is now available on Android. Final Fantasy V was first...
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Guardian Cross coming to China in Q4 via Shanda Games
Square Enix’s Guardian Cross — a mobile card battle game — may not be a critical darling, but it has performed well in Japan since its launch in the summer of 2012, climbing as high as the number three...
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Square-like Chinese startup QFPay swipes $16.5 million in series B funding
QFPay, maker of a Square-like gadget for taking e-payments via a smartphone, has secured series B funding worth $16.5 million, 36Kr reports today. It hasn’t been revealed who the investment is from,...
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What we’re playing: April 4, 2014
We’re all indie and/or old-school this week with the exception of Charlie, who was assigned the MMORPG flavor of the week, The Elder Scrolls Online. Mary-Anne is tapping on Pocket Mine, Iain is...
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Want to enter or escape Japan? Meet the secret weapon used by Expedia,...
When Japanese firms want to create or strengthen their presence in the United States they often take business trips to Silicon Valley. They meet executives and CEOs from Google, Facebook, and any...
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Japan’s Spike registers 40,000 merchants in seven months, closes in on...
Online payments is a battleground in Japan and the latest entrant is showing signs it might be on a path to winning the war. Spike, the payment solution from Metaps, announced it has exceeded 40,000...
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Why a free point-of-sale service might finally give Japan’s Recruit an...
Although Recruit became a Japanese conglomerate worth nearly US$2 billion on the strength of its human resource services, it could be an unassuming point-of-sale (POS) product that gives the firm a...
View ArticleSquare is now available in Australia
The US-born startup arrives in its second market in Asia-Pacific after Japan.
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The Indonesian startup with an edge over Square
Indonesia has millions of small and medium businesses. The question is how open they are to change. Photo credit: Dietrich Ayala. It happened again, in a mid-sized hotel at a touristy spot somewhere in...
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She landed internships at Google and Square. Here’s how she got there.
Photo credit: Rakina Amni. For Rakina Zata Amni, a computer science student from Indonesia, it’s a dream come true. She’s interning in the research and machine intelligence department at Google’s...
View ArticleHow Line is giving its online communities offline experiences
The company’s latest offering hopes to grow communities in Indonesia.
View ArticleDays after CEO exit, Hoolah cuts jobs in restructuring effort
The cost-cutting measure at the Singapore-based BNPL firm last month signals intensifying competition in the sector.
View ArticleChina roundup: TikTok teams up with US-based Square, and other news
Also, Kuaishou restructures its internal divisions after a drop in its Q2 user activity, and a health management startup launches a smart toilet.
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