Interview with Ray Koh of PickaPoken – Bringing Poken to Singapore

If you are in the tech space and haven’t yet heard of Poken, you must be living under a rock. The little digital social business card, with its cutesy designs, reminds one of the once famous Tamagotchi, only much more useful, and targeted at business users. While Poken was catching on fast in Europe and Japan, the little device still hasn’t reached Singapore shores en masse yet, till Ray set up PickaPoken to distribute Poken in Singapore. We caught Ray to find out more about the process of bringing Poken to Singapore. Read more

Interview with Sunil Coushik, co-founder of Ogywawa

Sometime back, I was invited by Preetam Rai to attend the launch of Ogywawa, an interesting web service integrating with the mobile phone for users to buy drinks for friends. If this is not interesting, Sunil Coushik, the co-founder of Ogywawa, started the company BubbleMotion (funded by Sequoia Capital and based in Singapore). We managed to get him to come on board to talk about Ogywawa and the challenges ahead for this festive season if you are thinking of gatherings and meetings with friends from clubs to pubs.

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