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[LAUNCHPAD] Pandai.cn Pitches an Online Peer to Peer Money Lending Platform for China

[LAUNCHPAD] Pandai.cn Pitches an Online Peer to Peer Money Lending Platform for China

[Translate] If you are familiar with LendingClub in America, you will get what Pandai.cn is trying to do. Online consumer finance or Peer to Peer (P2P) in China is a very new concept in China, where cash still dominates most transactions. However this isn’t the first time, an online lending platform was attempted in China....
[LAUNCHPAD] MadeiraCloud Pitches a Better Way to Organize Apps on the Cloud

[LAUNCHPAD] MadeiraCloud Pitches a Better Way to Organize Apps on the Cloud

[Translate] China has entered the world of cloud computing. Looking back, it’s hard to distinguish the point when things moved onto the cloud. Nearly everything from email, music, video, file storage, software mysteriously sits on the cloud. Madeiracloud raised an Angel investment  last June to better organize cloud applications. CEO Dan O’Prey and CTO Zhao...

[LAUNCHPAD] Gates2Asia Pitches a Groupon for SME Businesses

[Translate] Founded in March last year, Gates2Asia (G2A) is a B2B cooperative buying sites for international based SME’s to buy directly from low cost Asian suppliers like China. Essentially it is like a Groupon for SMEs, meaning when teaming up with other SMEs to buy the same things in bulk it leads to lower costs...
[LAUNCHPAD] Duanzumi Pitches A Chinese AirBNB

[LAUNCHPAD] Duanzumi Pitches A Chinese AirBNB

[Translate] As the winner of the last Startup Weekend Beijing, Betty Tong, founder of Duanzumi was awarded a fast pass through to the Launchpad Competition. Duanzumi simply put is a Chinese-AirBNB, a website to list rooms for short-term rental. Although there are more prominent clones in China, namely Airizu, Duanzumi has been established since November...
[LAUNCHPAD] TukeQ Pitches a Social Travel Organizer

[LAUNCHPAD] TukeQ Pitches a Social Travel Organizer

[Translate] Founded in May last year, TukeQ is a social travel web and mobile app that helps people organize their travel plans by sharing, follow and viewing other’s plans.   I met Founder, Alex Su around April last year as a participant in iWeekend, a weekend to pitch an idea, build a prototype and present...
[CHINABANG] TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld Opens ChinaBang Day 2

[CHINABANG] TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld Opens ChinaBang Day 2

[Translate] Via video recording, new TechCrunch Chief Editor Erick Schonfeld opened up ChinaBang Day 2. As one of the most influential tech blogs and aggregators of on the ground start-up news in the Silicon Valley, TechCrunch is positioned at the forefront for knowing the latest tech trends. There is an “explosion of start-ups” Schonfeld said....
[CHINABANG] TechNode and Silicon Valley Bank Announce the Launch of X-Founder Club at ChinaBang

[CHINABANG] TechNode and Silicon Valley Bank Announce the Launch of X-Founder Club at ChinaBang

[Translate] Just now on stage at the ChinaBang conference in Beijing, Huang Lili, Head of Entrepreneur Services from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced the launch of X-Founder Club in partnership with TechNode. The mission of the club is to become a premier community for China’s best start-up founders and entrepreneurs. The club has been established,...
[CHINABANG] VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb Open ChinaBang, Gang Covers the Key Tech Trends in China

[CHINABANG] VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb Open ChinaBang, Gang Covers the Key Tech Trends in China

[Translate] ChinaBang went live this morning. Opening with an energetic LinkinPark rift, the Chief Editors of VentureBeat (Matt Marshall) and ReadWriteWeb (Richard Macmanus) via video recording both described this generation as the best time to start a tech company. Why? Because there have been huge advances in internet and many large scale platforms have been laid out like Facebook...
LinkedIn Founder, Reid Hoffman Looking for a Bigger Slice of China – Can He Really Succeed?

LinkedIn Founder, Reid Hoffman Looking for a Bigger Slice of China – Can He Really Succeed?

[Translate] A professional social network like LinkedIn is clearly valuable. Its market cap is an impressive US$9 Billion and last traded at US$92. Yesterday, news broke out that LinkedIn Founder, Reid Hoffman met with major internet companies in China to discuss plans to enter China in a more measured way. More specifically Hoffman met with...
7 Key Mobile App Trends:'The Rise of the Planet of the Apps' Infographic from App Annie

7 Key Mobile App Trends:’The Rise of the Planet of the Apps’ Infographic from App Annie

[Translate] App Annie, a leading Apple mobile app analytic company based in Beijing loves to analyze app data. For many app developers looking to optimize their revenue potential and become the next Rovio with Angry Birds or Halfbrick Studios with Fruit Ninja, it is very important to know what type of app format to focus on and...
HKSTPC Introduces Incu-App Technology Business Incubation Programme Newest Initiative to Spur Hong Kong’s Technology Evolution

HKSTPC Introduces Incu-App Technology Business Incubation Programme Newest Initiative to Spur Hong Kong’s Technology Evolution

[Translate] (Hong Kong, 16 February 2012) – Dedicated to fostering innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC) today announced the launch of the Incu-App Technology Business Incubation Programme (Incu-App). This latest programme further highlights the Corporation’s commitment to supporting innovative entrepreneurs and start-ups by improving and broadening...
5 Startups Selected at the First Startup Labs Program in Taipei

5 Startups Selected at the First Startup Labs Program in Taipei

[Translate] This post originally comes from TechOrange, a tech blog based in Taipei and was written by James Hill of iii.org.tw. Thank you James! Leading figures from the entrepreneurial communities in Silicon Valley, Europe, and Taiwan descended on Microsoft’s Taipei offices last Friday to find out which five teams had made it through to the inaugural...