The past few weeks have been pretty exciting for Windows Phone. As the platform matures, we’re seeing more and more big-name apps port their apps over, relieving us of the need to depend o …
The VC landscape varies significantly across the different ‘Valleys of the East”, the Silicon Valley type areas that have started to develop across Asia. Shaped by their respective econom …
Slightly more than a month ago, we covered the launch of Spuul, a Bollywood movie streaming site. Smitty, the Chief Product Officer of Spuul, reached out to us and shared some of the extra features which they shipped…
Unlike most mobile loyalty systems, Squiryl has creatively differentiated itself by combining both loyalty systems, and social elements into one app. Not forgetting, the app’s vibrant and fun graphics. One of the metrics for businesses to measure is customer…
In an industry thought-leadership event yesterday, Paypal announced some statistics from its mobile commerce study conducted by The Nielson Company: The mobile commerce market in Singapore …
Jay Fajardo describes himself as a technopreneur, code jockey and startup junkie. A founder and CEO of Proudcloud, an agile Ruby on Rails development firm out of Manila, he is also founder of tech startup community Roofcamp and…
With two new innovative solutions by PayPal: PayPal Mobile Payments Standard Solutions and Mobile Commerce in a Box Solutions, businesses with online websites can now go mobile friendly without additional cost. In an industry thought-leadership event today, PayPal…
Put video conferencing + collaborative work + safe and secure transmission of information + simplicity of use together, and you’ll get VSee. What comes to mind when you think of vid …
Where do you head to to find good recommendations for these: Hotel and Flights? Tripadvisor. Food? hungrygowhere (Singapore) And what about EVERYTHING? Here’s one that we all know– Yelp. Taiwan startup, Citydomo is creating a Yelp-like site for users to…
From getting updated with the latest news, watching viral videos, to getting connected with online friends through popular social networks, Joanna Yeo talks about her personal experience with one of the world’s most famous social networking site. Being a fairly…
A successful entrepreneur, mentor and investor, Hugh Mason co-founded The Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia). It is an incubator that connects people, communities and cash to form i …
Y&R’s ‘Spark Plug’ initiative gives office space and opportunity to collaborate to four digital startups. Gamification startup GameMaki, DJ Nomsta, talent management compa …
Builk Asia is a Thai startup that targets the construction industry with an interesting business model for their product. Thai startup, Builk Asia was one of the companies that made great effort to participate in Echelon 2012.…
With an increasingly vibrant smartphone landscape, Singapore is fast becoming the most mobile-saavy population in the South-east Asia region. The smartphone ecosystem in Singapore has also grown to be incredibly sophisticated, leading to telcos and consumers brands watching the smartphone…
Simon Newstead, CEO of Frenzoo, a startup creating a new class of 3D lifestyle and fashion games for women. Their apps, include the popular Me Girl™ series of mobile games (www.megirl.com) …
GMIC sees Dou Dou winning G-Startup and leading Internet companies share the importance of mobile platforms in Asia. The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is an annual three-day conference organized by the Great Wall Club of China. GMIC is…
Mastercard’s latest survey on the global mobile payment landscape reveals trends that Asian consumers are open to mobile payments. Mobile payment is gaining popularity for both consumers and businesses. On the one hand, tech companies are coming up with interesting…
Federico Folcia is a hispanic entrepreneur who loves to travel but sick of hostels and dingy budget hotels and the typical cookie-cutter hotel rooms. Enter the idea of matching travelers f …
Clozette announces their latest round of S$ 2.4 million, led by Walden International, bringing their total investments raised to S$ 3.85 million. About a year after raising their S$ 1.45 million (about US$ 1.2 million) seed round in April of…
Fetch Plus led by Carmen Benitez, has been selected as a Featured Start-up is the only Singapore-based company represented in the Gust.com / Astia International Women’s Day Scholarship. The scholarship aims to highlight the…
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