May 22, 2012 by SGE
After six months in Asia, sixteen flights to eight countries, and interviews with over 100 entrepreneurs, investors, and organizers, Kira Newman of Tech Cocktail has worked with Malaysia infographic startup Piktochart to come up with this graphical summary of her impressions of the Asian startup scene. She’ll be writing more about Asia in the future. Check it out: Read more
April 15, 2012 by Terence LEE
Facebook has launched a feature that allows users to get special deals from merchants within the social network.
The deals will appear on their news feeds, and after claiming a deal, an email will be sent to the user. The deal can then be redeemed by flashing the email at a store.
Facebook Offers is currently in beta and is being rolled out to selected businesses in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, US, and Turkey, according to The Verge. Read more
April 12, 2012 by Guest Contributor
A version of this article was first published on Grey Review.
Facebook has over 850 million users worldwide. Out of that, a total of 194 million users are from Asia at the end of March 2012. Most of these users from the Southeast Asia region – 97 million or 54% of the total Facebook users in Asia. Some other observations on the latest Facebook in Asia statistics: Read more
April 10, 2012 by Terence LEE
We’ve all heard of Rocket Internet’s blitzkrieg in Asia, and how the Samwer Brothers are beating Silicon Valley’s best startups to the punch by launching first in the continent — using an army of clones.
Some examples have included Zappos-clone Zalora and Amazon-clone Lazada.
Swedish startup Wrapp, which specializing in doing social gift exchanging, has also been Samwer-ed, and the result is called DropGifts. Read more
July 29, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
Seven years ago, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Partnership for New York City started asking what New York had to do to remain competitive on the world stage. That resulted in the Cities of Opportunity report. This year just saw the release of the 4th edition. This time around, they ranked 26 cities around the world, with a third of them located in the Asia-Pacific region. Curious as to whether your city is one of the chosen ones? Below is a run down of the Asia-Pacific cities that made it into the list. Read more
July 27, 2011 by SGE
Onsuccess interviewed early stage investor and entrepreneur Brad Feld on July 14 regarding entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Brad shared much from his own experience and gave some insightful comments on entrepreneurship in Asia. Read more
May 31, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
After LinkedIn‘s IPO (some say spectacular, some argue otherwise), the professional social network is opening an office in Singapore to be their Asia Pacific headquarters. While we already know that LinkedIn Japan is also in the works, the Singapore office seems more firmed up with Arvind Rajan, LinkedIn’s managing director and vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan moving here. Read more
May 20, 2011 by SGE
They have it in Europe, so do we in Asia. This year, Terrapinn proudly presents Planet of the Apps Asia 2011. Planet of the Apps Asia brings together the world’s major consumer brands, media businesses, social networking sites, mobile operators and ISPs, device manufacturer, platform owners and developer community. Click here to view the speaker list and here to view the full schedule. Read more
May 18, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
Founded in 1992, TiE is a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship and today counts over 14,000 members in 54 chapters across 13 countries. Its flagship event, TiECon is held yearly and billed as the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs. At this event, the top 50 technology startups under TiE50 – TiE Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program keenly contested by thousands of technology startups worldwide – are announced. Here’s a look at the startups from Asia Pacific who are TiE50 2011 winners across the five categories: Read more
April 11, 2011 by SGE
Echelon 2011 aims to help Southeast Asia’s startups get discovered. The main event will be held in June in Singapore, but there will be two Satellite launchpads in Singapore and KL (Malaysia) will help filter the startups.
Echelon 2011 will be a two-day, double-track event with an expected attendance of more than 1,000 delegates; a demo pit of more than 40 startups and companies; and workshops and fringe events. Read more
