Tag Archives: Asia

Not a Knock-Off Apple Product, But a Whole Store

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Apple has long had to deal with unscrupulous counterfeiters creating and hawking fake iPods and iPhones–any fashion house would say it’s the price for having the sexiest products–but now the company is faced with deception on a much larger scale, with whole retail locations set up to look like authentic Apple stores (with varying degrees of success) popping up around the globe. Ironically, these stores are often selling authentic Apple products–likely the result of profitable and illegal resale efforts. READ MORE »

Airbnb Raises $112 Million in Series B Funding

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Airbnb, a website that helps users find short-term accommodations in the living rooms and recreation rooms of cities around the world, announced today that it has raised $112 million in second round funding from Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, and General Catalyst on a valuation of $1 billion. The company’s previous round of funding totaled $7.8 million. READ MORE »

China Eliminated 1.3 Million Websites in 2010

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Worldwide, the number of websites grew by 21.4 million to a total of 255 million, according to Royal Pingdom. But China is bucking the trend. The country lost 1.3 million websites in 2010, reducing its total website count by 41 percent, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. READ MORE »

Google’s Technology Aids Tsunami Zone

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Google has been in Japan for a decade now, but the company has perhaps made its most significant inroads in the towns and cities devastated by March’s tsunami. The company has begun using its Street View technology in the disaster zone to document damage. READ MORE »

Dropbox Earns Massive Valuation Topping $5 Billion

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If news of Dropbox‘s latest funding round is true, the cloud storage service has achieved the same overall valuation as Twitter. According to TechCrunch, DropBox is raising between $200 million and $300 million in its latest round of funding, which would place the company’s valuation in the $5 billion to $10 billion range. READ MORE »

Why the Internet Debate Could Restart the Culture War

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In American political life “the Culture War” refers to the conflict between conservative traditionalism and liberal progressivism that began in the 1960s. The Culture War transformed political discourse into an exercise of picking sides, and cleaved the Baby Boomer generation into two easily identifiable and highly calcified political categories. When political writer Andrew Sullivan endorsed Barack Obama in The Atlantic Magazine in 2008, he did so because he believed that Obama was the one candidate that could transcend that conflict: READ MORE »

While You Were Off the Grid

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Did you just get back from vacation? You missed a busy week in technology.  The first thing you need to know: Facebook and Google dominated the headlines. Let’s get on with the list. READ MORE »

Pegatron Rumored to Receive Order for 15 Million iPhone 5s

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Pegatron Technology, the Taiwanese consumer electronics manufacturer that filled orders for the iPhone 4, has received an order for 15 million iPhone 5s, according to DigiTimes. A piece on The New York Times’ website points out that DigiTimes’ reports sometimes have a questionable relationship to fact, but that the rumored order makes intuitive sense. DigiTimes refers to the new model as the iPhone 4s in its report, indicating that the new device may show only small updates from the iPhone 4. READ MORE »

Mobile Payments to Triple in Value to $670B by 2015

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A new study from telecommunications analysis group Juniper Research predicts that mobile payments for physical and technical products will skyrocket to $670 billion by 2015, nearly tripling in growth.  North America, Western Europe and East Asia and China will comprise the forerunners, representing 75% of the mobile payments market. READ MORE »

A Dutch Haven for App Developers

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In a few years time, Silicon Valley may not be the only haven for app developers. Tapulous co-founder Mike Lee, creator of the successful iPhone game Tap Tap Revenge, is establishing a new home for app developers in Amsterdam. READ MORE »