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Faulty Apple place in the strife went to Xunta, a mongrel of fashionable gay app Grindr and Chinese flirting help Momo which has 16 Ipad instance million users and raised a late $40 million Series B round. Look visualization placement Pudding rounded out the lid three spots.
You can find more details of the tournament over at Tech In Asia.
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