Malaysian startup MyDerm wins US$10k cash in GIST’s “I Dare” Business Plan Competition

July 16, 2012 by  

With  participating in the , The Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Initiative has finally announced the four winners of the I Dare business plan competition, which has more than 300 entrepreneurs from 48 countries participating.

We previously noted that Malaysian and Indonesian startups had made it to the finals of GIST Business Plan Competition. It turns out that Malaysian startup MyDerm has won the MegaGIST Award worth US$10,000. Read more

Malaysian and Indonesian startups make finals of GIST Business Plan Competition

June 21, 2012 by  

Four startups from Southeast Asia have made the finals of the GIST Business Plan Competition, a global initiative with the aim of stregthening relations between the United States and the Muslim world.

Funded by the US Department of State, the competition climaxes on 28th to 29th June where ten finalists will compete in Dubai for four awards totaling US$100,000. Read more

The fastest growing Facebook nations in Asia (first quarter 2012)

April 12, 2012 by  

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