TikTok officially launches e-commerce TikTok Shop in the US

TikTok has officially launched its e-commerce feature called TikTok Shop in the United States, letting social media users discover and purch...

‘Pokémon Sleep’ gameplay introduced in new video

The Pokémon Company recently released a video that introduces the gameplay of its highly anticipated app “Pokémon Sleep.” About the video an...

S. Korean police arrest creators of app that shares personal info of brothel customers

Users can access private customer data, including 4.6 million phone numbers, past records of visiting other brothels, occupations and even s...

2nd-generation immigrant creates live translation app to communicate with his Chinese parents

Joshua Gao, a 24-year-old tech entrepreneur from Toronto, created a chat app that can accurately translate slang and idioms into multiple la...

Meet the Gen Z entrepreneur who wants to help alleviate the mental health crisis through sound

With Travis Chen at the helm of the music therapy app SoundMind, thousands of users are lulled into a blissful trance, soothed by lush sound...

K-pop’s newest hit: mental health support through audio therapy

The manager of a legendary K-pop artist once asked me to exclude the words “mental health” in any context from a pending interview profile. ...

‘Use Rest’: ‘Pokémon Sleep’ mobile game will track your sleeping habits

The Pokémon Company has revealed its first trailers for the highly anticipated “Pokémon Sleep” mobile game.  Initially announced in 2019, fa...

College student develops new app that detects AI-written essays

A university student has developed an app that can detect if a written work was authored by the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT...

Crime-watch app Citizen offers free 1-year premium access to Bay Area’s AAPI community

New York-based app developer sp0n, Inc. is giving 20,000 Asian American and Pacific Islander residents from the Bay Area free premium acces...

Jemi Co-Founders Call on Asian Creators and Allies to Fight Hate

Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the authors. The recent rise in anti-Asian violence has made us refl...

Asian American Founders Launch FAM App to Take on Clubhouse

Editor’s Note: This post was made in partnership with FAM. The app is available to be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play. A new a...

Teen Wins International Award for Anti-Cyberbullying App

Sadat Rahman, a 17-year-old boy from Bangladesh, was named the winner of the 2020 Children’s Peace Prize for creating the anti-cyberbullying...

Japanese App Uses AI to Grade the Quality of Your Tuna

A Japanese app is now serving a local sushi chain by grading the quality of the tuna it serves to customers. Tuna Scope, developed by advert...

America’s Answer to TikTok is a Startup That Rappers Just Invested MILLIONS in With an Asian Founder

Social video platform Triller is now on its way to overtake TikTok in the United States as it lands millions of dollars in investments from ...

NextShark Fans Demanded a News App, So We Sacrificed Everything to Make it Happen

(Newport Beach, Ca. June 5, 2019) NextShark, the leading source of Asian American and Asian news, proudly unveils a news app available in th...

China Develops App That Reveals If a Person in Debt is Nearby

A controversial new app in one Chinese province is making headlines for its unusual function: the ability to spot people who are in debt wit...

Man in China Reunited with Family After 8 Years After Viral TikTok Videos

After being missing for eight years, a man was finally reunited with his family in China after locals posted clips of him on TikTok, also kn...

Woman Sexually Harassed by Lyft Driver Shares Chilling Experience to Warn Others

A woman who was sexually harassed by a male Lyft driver shared her chilling experience on social media, urging others to stay calm should th...

Her Grandma Has Alzheimer’s, So She Built an App to Help Her Remember

After watching her beloved grandmother become increasingly forgetful over the past few years due to Alzheimer’s disease, 14-year-old Emma Ya...

China’s WeChat Under Fire For Translating ‘Black Foreigner’ Into the N-Word

Popular Chinese app WeChat received heavy criticism after a user received a message containing the word heilaowai or “black foreigners,” and...

New York Startup Invents Genius Device That Detects Fake Designer Bags

A New York-based startup has created a device that can tell whether a designer bag is real or fake within minutes. The company is called Ent...

Faceapp Removes Controversial Ethnicity Filter Because It’s Racist AF

A controversial ethnicity filter from FaceApp was immediately taken down following numerous criticisms from netizens calling it racist and o...

Report on Chinese Food Delivery App Exposes Vendors Preparing Food Next to Toilets

Two food delivery services in Guangzhou, China may have been operating under grossly unsanitary conditions, a newspaper has uncovered. Local...

Japanese Grandma Teaches Herself How to Code, Makes App From Scratch

One 81-year-old Japanese woman will put any young coders, software engineers, and programmers to shame. In 2014, Masako Wakamiya had the pri...

Men in China Are Using an App To Rent Girlfriends For Up to $1,454 in Time For CNY

Single men in China are turning to an app called Hire Me Plz to rent a girlfriend to take home for Lunar New Year in an effort to please the...

Malaysian Teens Create the Country’s First Food Surplus App to Fight Waste and Hunger

Four teenagers took a significant leap towards success when they created Robin Food, Malaysia’s first food surplus app that connects s...

Nokia is Throwing Money at an App That Tracks Women’s Menstrual Cycles

Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is one of the leading investors for an app that predicts when women will feel pain caused by their m...

China Has an App That Helps LGBTs Hide Their Sexuality From Their Families

In China, similar to other conservative societies, the gay and lesbian community is usually left with very little choice when it comes to ac...

A ‘Dancing Aunties’ App Just Snagged $15 Million in Funding

An app designed to get older women dancing just bagged $15 million in Series B Funding. The app, called Tangdou Guangchangwu (Public Square ...

China’s Twitter Copycat is Now Worth More Than Twitter

With its plunging shares, Twitter has become cheaper than its Chinese equivalent Weibo. Launched in 2009, Weibo is now valued at $11.35 bill...

Groundbreaking App Will Translate Restaurant Menus For You When You Travel to Asia

Many of us might love authentic Chinese food, but sometimes we just need help figuring out what we’re ordering on the menu. Now, translating...

Chinese App That Gives ‘Plastic Surgery’ to Your Selfies Wants a $1 Billion IPO

If you’ve been searching for touch-up apps to add some “oomph” to your selfies, chances are you’ve come across one of Meitu’s. M...

Pokémon GO is Literally Changing People’s Lives For the Better

Pokémon GO has not only been a hit all over the world, but it’s also having a positive impact on people’s physical and mental he...

People Have Already Figured Out How to Cheat at Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go has only been out for a few days now but it’s already taken Pokémon hunters to many parts of the world to try and catch the...

China’s Tencent Buys ‘Clash Of Clans’ Developer Supercell For $8.6 Billion

China’s Tencent has officially confirmed its purchase of a huge stake in mobile game creator Supercell, the studio behind the massivel...

Muslim Man Launches Controversial Website to Help Men Find Multiple Wives

In a peculiar blend of tech and culture, U.K.-based entrepreneur Azad Chaiwala created a website that speeds up the process of searching for...