Crunchyroll, an on-demand streaming service for Japanese anime and television shows broadcast across Asia, is rolling out a new e-commerce platform today that offers viewers merchandise while they’re watching their favorite shows. As with Western comic books and sci-fi television shows, fans of popular anime such as Naruto Shippuden and Bleach often like to buy…
Buy AP Photo Reprints NEW DELHI (AP) — Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.China says Premier Li Keqiang's choice of India for…
Asian mobile messaging service Line is seeing early success with its monetization model — to the tune of $58 million in revenue for Q1 2013 — but there’s a little bad news today as the company has withdrawn the gift sharing feature from its iOS app at the request of Apple. “We received a request…
Mobile messaging applications might be available for free, but an increase in in-app purchases and other business models has turned the industry into a multi-million dollar one. Proof of that comes as popular Asian message service Line revealed revenue of 5.82 billion yen ($58 million) for the first quarter of 2013. The figures are Line‘s first financial results since being…
Shanhai (ots) - Anmoderation: Morgen (Sonntag, 21.4.2013) ffnet Chinas wichtigste Automesse ihre Pforten: Die Shanghai Auto Show. Seit 1985 findet diese Messe im zweijhrigen Turnus statt. Sie ist bereits die drittgrte Autoschau der Welt und gilt inzwischen als Leitmesse fr den gesamten asiatischen Raum. Neben der Beteiligung asiatischer Firmen nutzen auch europische und amerikanische Hersteller…
A South Korean protester wearing a mask of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for the media during a rally denouncing the military exercises and demanding Kerry to go to the North Korea for peace talks near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. Hinting at a missile launch, North…
Guan Tianlang, now 14, qualified for this week's Masters when -- as the youngest player in the field, then rated 490th in the world amateur rankings -- he beat a host of senior golfers to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Thailand. Pictured here, Guan of China tees off on the second hole during the…
U.S. equities slid today after a highly-anticipated labor report came in below expectations. Though buyers stepped in to snatch up downtrodden shares later in the session, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq still ...
LONDON/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has asked embassies in Pyongyang that might wish to get staff out if there is a war to submit plans to it by April 10, Britain said on Friday, as it upped the pressure as part of a war of words that has set the Korean peninsula on edge.
Rakuten, Japan’s leading e-commerce platform, announced today it will establish a $10 million investment fund for startups and companies located in Asia. The announcement was made at StartupAsia, Tech In Asia‘s two-day conference for the Asian tech community held in Singapore. At the conference, Shin Hasegawa, Director of Rakuten’s Global Marketing Office, explained that the…
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