India is the world’s second fastest growing economy. Home to more than 1.2 billion people, India is one of the most lucrative emerging markets today. Around 71% of the population is younger than age 35, providing opportunities to tap a young, vibrant emerging demographic that are technologically savvy. In terms of purchasing power, India is the world’s 4th largest economy and it could become the world’s fastest growing economy within the next few years.
This Friday, iAxil, Battle Ventures and MentorSquare present a talk on Business Opportunities and Market Access for India. Read more
It all comes down to economic growth.
With the US and Europe still struggling with the economic crisis, Asia has emerged as one of the growing group of economies that will dominate the global markets for the next few years. Growth in the Asian economies will largely be driven by a combination of production and marketing as well as by harnessing the online medium which is fast becoming a major influence in purchase decision making.
As a marketing professional, there is no way you can miss the changing face of Digital and Mobile marketing in Asia. Click Asia Summit 2011 is designed to create a forum for some of the top marketing professionals to congregate and create a marketplace for ideas and services that will help Asian companies get the marketing edge. Read more
Following on our special interview series, we have Pratyush Prasanna (@pratyushp) from Xerox and also a former founder of SMS Gupshup, a well-known SMS and microblogging mobile service in India which have a total of 20M users. In our conversation with Pratyush, we chatted with him on how he started SMS Gupshup with his fellow co-founders and grew it to the state today. We also asked him on his new challenge as an open innovation manager for Xerox and get a sense of the India market on mobile applications. He will be speaking as a panelist on “Mobile Applications: The State of Play”. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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The TWIA crew gathers after Chinese New Year without Daniel Cerventus to run thru a couple of stories that rumbles across the Asia landscape this week. Starting with Zynga’s global expansion into India, the crew ponders whether the foreign companies are shifting their focus away from China. Once again, censorship takes the headline in China and Indonesia. Of course, we devise the new googleometer where we ask if Google is really moving out of China with their gestures on canceling the Android event in Beijing. Finally, the biggest story that rocked Southeast Asia with Facebook acquiring Octazen, a Malaysian based company and finally the crew looks at the rise of the Global QQ and ending with a short commentary on Siok Siok’s new film, Twittamentary.
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While India celebrated the launch of the new Nokia N96, Singapore startup TenCube had their own piece of good news to shout about. Their flagship product WaveSecure is the only 3rd party application that is bundled together with the sleek N96! Links to several news sites after the jump. Read more
