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3 Things You Should Know about the Extreme Entrepreneur Peter Sage
In celebration of TEDxKL 2013, we have gotten the chance to research and do a scoop on the Extreme Entrepreneur himself, Peter Sage. One of the headline speakers for the annual TEDxKL this year, we...
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Why Sell to Ibibo? And Why Now? Redbus CEO Phanindra Sama Explains
Last Friday, India’s online bus ticketing startup Redbus was bought up by local web portal Ibibo. Since Ibibo is actually joint-venture between South Africa’s Naspers (NPN:SJ) and China’s Tencent...
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Confirmed: Norway’s Telenor and Qatar’s Ooredoo Win Bid to Build Myanmar’s...
Newly opened-up ミャンマー has this afternoon confirmed the winners of the multi-billion dollar bid to build the country’s next-generation mobile network. According to the Myanmar government’s evaluation...
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Catcha Group Invests in Middle East’s Top Property Portal
The Malaysia-based Catcha investment group announced today that it has invested in propertyfinder.ae, a top middle eastern property portal that features homes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The amount of the...
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Beijing Reverses Ban on Extra Tariffs in Taxi Finder Apps, But Imposes Fee Limit
As seen in my colleague’s recent review of China’s top taxi finder app, such apps let potential passengers bid extra cash to get a cab driver to go pick them up. It’s common to have to bid as much as...
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7 Major Challenges Holding Back Tech Ecosystems Across Asia
Despite the strength and diversity of Asia’s tech ecosystems, there are a lot of problems and peculiarities that hold back these countries’ web industries in some ways. A new report today from The...
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Why are Companies Choosing the Philippines Over India for Outsourcing Services?
Asia has been the prime destination for outsourced jobs over the last couple of years. This has happened because, in Asia, US-based companies can get the services they need at a much more...
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[シンガポール] Winning Without Losing: Strategic guide to success & work-life balance!
Winning Without Losing: Strategic guide for success and work-life balance! Your start-up or your life? Most entrepreneurs assume that if they want to have a successful business they have to pay the...
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Cooliris Partners with Tencent in China, Adds Weibo Integration
We’ve been tracking the Asia expansion of Cooliris for a while now, and today that expansion takes another step forward as Cooliris announces a new partnership with Tencent that sees Tencent platform...
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Rocket Internet’s Australian Fashion E-Store Pockets $26 Million in Funding
We often see ロケットインターネット, the German startup dynamo, in action in Southeast Asia, but it’s worth remembering that it has ventures in Australia as well. One of Rocket’s five startups down under is...
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In Depth: Getting Bitcoin into the Hands of China’s Average Zhou
China is the second-biggest and fastest growing Bitcoin market in the world, second only to the United States. This is a relatively recent development that can be traced to Cyprus’ financial crisis in...
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How Rocket Internet is Getting Into Pakistan On the Ground Floor (INTERVIEW)
Germany’s Samwer brothers, the duo behind the startup dynamo that is Rocket Internet, love unformed markets where they can get in early and perhaps lead from the front. Pakistan definitely fits that...
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Lessons from Apple Founder Steve Jobs for Entrepreneurs
By Michael Teoh | NextUpAsia A special story dedicated to the late Apple Founder Steve Jobs and Most Renowned Innovator of our time, Steve Jobs, on his most genuine ways of becoming the legendary...
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Indonesian Government Plans to Hike SIM Card Prices by 5,000%
By Hengky Sucanda | アジアのハイテク Indonesia’s Telecommunications Regulatory Body plans to hike the price of SIM cards to a minimum of IDR 100,000 ($10). At the moment, you can snatch a SIM card for as...
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Will Foxconn Announce Joint Venture Deal in Indonesia Next Month, or Will...
By Enricko Lukman | アジアのハイテク After repeated delays, there’s news today that Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn (LSE:HHPD; HKEX:2038; TPE:2354) will finalize its plan to build a massive manufacturing plant...
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Watch Out Asia, Rocket Internet Reveals It Raised $1.3 Billion So Far This Year
By Steven Millward | アジアのハイテク An investor at Rocket Internet’s HQ this morning. Germany’s startup dynamo that’s plotting world domination, ロケットインターネット, has netted $500 100万 – はい, half a billion – in...
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[シンガポール] EmTech Singapore
By e27.sg | E27 EmTech Singapore About EmTech Singapore EmTech is the annual global emerging technologies conference hosted by MIT’s Technology Review magazine, the world’s most respected technology...
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I’m From The Thai Government, And I’m Here To Help
By Saiyai Sakawee | アジアのハイテク With the commencement of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, the Thai government aims for the country to become the ICT hub of the region. もちろん, there are critics...
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How Rocket Internet is Getting Into Pakistan On the Ground Floor (INTERVIEW)
Germany’s Samwer brothers, the duo behind the startup dynamo that is Rocket Internet, love unformed markets where they can get in early and perhaps lead from the front. Pakistan definitely fits that...
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Thai Telco Dtac Gets More Social, Adds Special Facebook Messenger Stickers
By Saiyai Sakawee | アジアのハイテク Dtac, one of the big three telephone operators in Thailand, has just rebranded its pre-paid services. Those services used to be known by the Dtac logo accompanied by the...
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