Niko Partners keeps a close eye on the Asian games market and its growing library of webgames, casual online games and social networking service games.

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Qiming Ventures has five Chinese portfolio companies in the cue to go public soon: ramped up car rental service eHi from Shanghai, dating site Jiayuan, online video programming PPLive, social networking service Kaixin001 and kids entertainment site Taomee.

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The switch is a strategy already used by social networking leader Facebook Inc. and online messaging service Twitter to make it easier to show ads on mobile devices.

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The most recent of all the filings is one for "Nooksellers, " which appears to be for a combination in-store kiosk and online service that would offer personalized recommendations and various social networking tie-ins.

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The size and scope of Apple's developer program remains a bit of a mystery, but Apple has already shown off demos from online auctioneer eBay, mobile social-networking start-up Loopt, blogging service TypePad, the Associated Press and game developer Pangea Software.

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