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5 signs your marketing and sales teams aren’t getting along
Ask any random passerby off the street what the difference between sales and marketing is, and you’ll likely get the answer “Huh? They’re different?” While marketing teams do often start off as a...
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The group formerly known as KFit has bought Groupon Singapore
A Groupon store in Singapore, around 2012. After nabbing Groupon Indonesia and Groupon Malaysia, the Fave group has come for the Singapore version of the daily deals site. Fave, which has a similar...
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5 web development jobs this week
Ready for your weekly dose of web development jobs? This list will feature exciting career opportunities that have recently opened up from companies on Tech in Asia Jobs. Interested in any positions...
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Is your attention span less than that of a goldfish? This app could help you...
Photo credit: Cloud2013 True to the nature of his product, Gaurav Gupta sends me a mail minutes after we speak. It is a summary of our conversation – and you’ll soon know why. At 40, the former head of...
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Despite Netflix and Amazon Prime, most of the world watches pirated content
More than half of the people surveyed across the world still watch pirated movies and TV shows, a new survey shows. The study, conducted by digital security firm Irdeto, asked more than 25,000 adults...
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The Singapore and Abu Dhabi governments are working together to promote fintech
Photo credit: Drumah The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) announced today that they’ve agreed to cooperate on projects designed to encourage the growth of...
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Meet 14 promising startups Microsoft accelerator picked to get them...
Summer cohort of 2017: startups and their mentors at Microsoft Accelerator in Bangalore. Photo credit: Microsoft Accelerator. The Microsoft accelerator program in India has been evolving. It shifted...
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They’re building Korea’s answer to Thumbtack
Jiho Kang, Robin Kim, and Hwan Kim in front of the Y Combinator logo. Photo credit: Soomgo. Korean-American Robin Kim first went to South Korea in 2007, right after graduating from business school in...
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In the home of Everest, 51 tech girls take their country to the future
Building new startups, and winning. Photo credit: Techcamp Nepal. Nepal. The tiny country is best known to the world as the home of Mount Everest, the stuff of many trekking inspirations, and for being...
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This Singaporean startup just built a smart pet monitor
Pebby’s Hansen Goh (left) and Maksim Kolin (right). Photo credit: Pebby. As a pet parent, it isn’t easy to leave your favorite furry creature at home when you step out for work. There’s constant stress...
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Meet the artificially intelligent tipster for sales execs that just bagged...
Photo credit: Pixabay. Last year, I signed up for an eight-week-long course on entrepreneurship. Most of my classmates were aspiring entrepreneurs – many of them techies who had already taken the...
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These 8 startups formed the second cohort of the Muru-D Singapore accelerator
The graduating startups of Muru-D Singapore’s second cohort. Photo credit: Muru-D. It’s the second year in Singapore for Australia-born accelerator Muru-D and eight startups formed its second cohort,...
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This VR startup can turn your sofa into a Lamborghini
Photo credit: UltronVR. I’m on a whirlwind tour of different realities: a sunlit living room, prehistoric Earth, a tomb filled with Terracotta Warriors. I’m not fooled by my surroundings – I know I’m...
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10 marketing jobs: oBike, Mayaraya, Homage and more
Looking for opportunities in marketing & public relations? We have handpicked 10 jobs for you this week. Click on the links below and apply away! Recruiting and keen to list your jobs in future...
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Go-Jek now lets users transfer e-cash to each other
Photo credit: YouTube. Indonesia’s on-demand ride app Go-Jek introduced a simple e-wallet not long ago. It lets users store credit on the app for future rides and purchases. Credit points are deducted...
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Singapore’s central bank is ready to use the blockchain for inter-bank payments
Photo credit: wutwhan / 123RF. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today it has completed a proof-of-concept trial of using distributed ledger technology (DLT – of which the blockchain...
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Singapore’s iconic state-sponsored startup hub Block71 opens Jakarta branch
Photo credit: Tech in Asia. Somewhat stealthily, Block71 set up a new incubator and co-working spot in the middle of Jakarta. It’s already home to a number of startups like online pawn shop Pinjam and...
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Thieves are pickpocketing wallet apps in China
Paying for Starbucks using WeChat in China. Photo credit: Tencent. The QR code rules supreme in China. You can pay for almost anything with it: street food, toilet paper, a lobster dinner, a foot...
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Paypal just invested in Korea’s answer to Venmo
SG Lee runs Viva Republica, the startup behind money transfer app Toss. Photo credit: Viva Republica. SG Lee took a very unusual route to entrepreneurship – through dental school. “When I was back in...
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‘World’s largest fintech hub’ expands from Singapore to India
The coastal city of Vizag in southern India is an emerging fintech hub. Photo credit: Ravikiran Rao (Flickr) Four months ago, the world’s largest fintech hub Lattice80, spanning 30,000 square feet,...
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