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There was no shortage of creativity among the many teams at Startup Weekend Tokyo 2011. But when the dust settled on Sunday evening, Q Live was proclaimed the winner.

The final pitches were made at Startup Weekend Tokyo yesterday. Here are ten of the ideas we heard.

The final pitches were made at Startup Weekend Tokyo yesterday. Here are ten of the ideas we heard.

On Taobao.com, China's biggest consumer-to-consumer ecommerce site, Chinese netizens could now buy themselves something a bit more special than the usual clothes or gadgets - a Lamborghini supercar.

The Indonesian government has predicted that in June every district and subdistrict in Indonesia will be connected to the Internet.

Sony has released its revised results forecast for the fiscal year ended March 2011, now projecting a loss of 260 billion yen (or about $3.18 billion).

The Global Times, citing an article in New Express Daily, is reporting that Chinese group-buy service Lashou has been falsifying the original prices listed on its website in order to exaggerate discounts.

According to a new report from McKinsey, the current internet revolution is driving economic change not seen since the 19th century. The research firm found that Sweden leads the world in internet contribution to GDP at 6.3%, but we were curious to see how Asian nations fared.

Japanese mobile social network and social game company DeNA announced today that it would undergo corporate restructuring as Tomoko Namba, the company's Representative Director, President, and CEO is to retire from those positions on June 25th.

Recently, a tablet users who can be said to reveal startling discovery. He showed some simple tricks to find the interface Gingerbread (Android 2.3) which is hidden in tablet Honeycomb (Android 3.0). Users who have known the identity Graffix0214 on YouTube, uploaded a video showing how to present herself in a tablet-based interface Honeycomb Gingerbread, as shown in the following video:

Development of mobile industry in key markets of Southeast Asia such as Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia continued to show positive trends, by placing the Android platform as an idol.

With the increasingly rapid development of technology, information and communications make various breakthroughs to make more real convenience. Recently, Google is rumored to be launching a mobile payment platform that allows people to use smartphones to pay in stores as easily as they use a credit card. Google's plan to introduce the system at a press conference in New York, with the help of large financial institutions that have partnered with Google for this project.

Google and Amazon have launched the first cloud-based music service. However, both providers should be alert to the threat that comes from Apple. The reason is, when Google and Amazon are still waiting for an agreement of cooperation with the label, Apple has managed to hold two giant record label EMI and Warner Music Group.

Once aware of the weaknesses in the security of their Android platform, which allows the username and password for Google Calendar, Facebook, Twitter and other services easily be stolen through a network of public Wi-Fi, Google immediately take corrective measures to resolve the issue. The problem was known after some German scientists have found that the Android platform have been using the authentication can be infiltrated hackers, when Android devices are connected with wi-fi networks are not secure.

Google launched a new tool to find and compare financial products called Google Advisor. Google Advisor is intended as a financial comparison tool, helping users to measure the number of mortgages, credit cards, savings accounts and others, by providing a list of appropriate financial instruments. Similarly, as quoted from MashableFriday (05/20/2011).

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Twitter, Greg Pass, leaving the microblogging site to continue his career elsewhere, as the news reported by Tech Crunch, Saturday (05/21/2011). Prior positions CTO Twitter, Pass is a Vice President of Engineering popular microblogging site. The position was achieved after becoming the CTO and co-founder Summize, a startup that was acquired Twitter, in July 2008 ago, and eventually evolved into Twitter Search.

Sunshine good for bone health, everyone would already know. But did you know that sunlight is also good for the quality of sperm? So for infertile men do not worry, you should more often leave the body exposed to the sun. Recently, a study conducted on 340 men, found that vitamin D is produced by the body when exposed to sunlight, it can improve sperm quality. Sperm-sperm had been "a swimmer" better as it moves toward the egg cell, has a greater speed, and more penetrative.

Famous pop singer who is full of sensation as well as with an eccentric style, Lady Gaga and social networking game maker Zynga will work together to bring GagaVille, a special edition of the game Farmville. Agricultural land in GagaVille, which is a special edition of Farmville, eventually will include motorbikes, sheep, crystals and unicorns. The visitors are scheduled game was launched on May 17, will also be able to listen to secret songs from the album 'Born This Way' Lady Gaga's property which will be released on May 23.

Recently, Zynga has just bought a social game studio called DNA Games, which makes the purchase was the 14th since last year. DNA Games is the studio behind the game up, Casino City, Slots City and Barworld. Casino City which is the most popular games of DNA, has 1.5 million active users monthly. Game studio based in San Francisco will remain independent, as Newtoy when it was bought by Zynga.

Gold plated smartphone, Nokia Oro apparently caught India's attention as 'Nokia Oro' is now trending on Twitter.