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Tokyo Game Show: Interview with Taisei Yoshida of GREE | TechInAsia.com
By Rick Martin on 20 Sep 2011I spoke with GREE's senior vice president of media business development at the 2011 Tokyo Game Show. Here is the video. Be sure to turn on the captions for the Japanese portion.
12 Pitches From Start-up Weekend Tokyo at Mixi | TechInAsia
By Rick Martin on 24 Aug 2011This weekend saw 2011’s second Start-up Weekend in Tokyo, this time at Mixi HQ in Shibuya.
Asia’s Internet By the Numbers | Penn Olson
By Rick Martin on 22 Aug 2011We had a little bit of free time this afternoon to dive into some figures about Asia’s internet that we’ve been meaning to crunch for a while. Internet World Stats updated its Asia figures a few weeks back, and so we jumped in to try to make some sense of it.
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View original:How Japan Kept Informed After the Quake [GRAPH] | Penn Olson
By Rick Martin on 09 Jun 2011Research firm comScore has released information today on the different ways that people in Japan kept themselves informed after the tragic earthquake and tsunami back on March 11.
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View original:Japan’s Asahi Shimbun Goes Digital. Or Does it? | Penn Olson
By Rick Martin on 27 May 2011The good people over at Asiajin reported earlier today that The Asahi Shimbun, one of the largest newspapers in the world, will now offer digital subscriptions options. But it doesn’t come cheap.
Hands on with Kyocera Echo, Wireless Expo 2011, Tokyo | TechInAsia.com
By Rick Martin on 27 May 2011While Kyocera’s Echo has been released in the US for a while, we were pleased to see it come to Tokyo for the Wireless Expo 2011. Kyocera has some really interesting phone designs and the Echo, with its dual screens, is one of the most eye-catching.
South Korea Wins Internet Speed Race | Penn Olson
By Rick Martin on 05 May 2011Akamai just released its quarterly State of the Internet report, and we were curious to look at the internet speed rankings again this quarter. The average speed in South Korea was higher than any non-Korean city could muster, at 13.7 Mbps. Hong Kong and Japan ranked as the second and third regions with 9.4 and 8.3 Mbps respectively. In contrast the world average is 1.9 Mbps.
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View original:Interview with Michael Jiang of Dianping.com [VIDEO] | Penn Olson
By Rick Martin on 29 Apr 2011At the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, China, we were fortunate enough to sit down with Michael Jiang, the VP of Product and Operations at Dianping.com.
View original:Mac OS X: Hot in Singapore, Ice-Cold in China [CHART] | Penn Olson
By Rick Martin on 16 Apr 2011I was curious to see a report from my friends over at TUAW.com saying that Singapore had cracked the top 10 of countries with highest Mac OS X market share. I thought I’d dig a little bit deeper and see exactly how other Asian countries compare.
Visualization: India Fights Corruption, Tweets for #AnnaHazare
By rickmartin on 08 Apr 2011We posted earlier today about India’s fight against corruption and how the struggle was manifesting on the web. Since then activist Anna Hazare has become a trending topic on Twitter, clearly a hot topic of conversation right now in the country. We took a sample of 1000 Twitter messages when Anna Hazare was trending, and visualized them to see some of the most common words in the discussion. So (quite literally) here are the words that were being spoken across India today:
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