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THE 99: Islamic superheroes going global Article From Neil Curry and Jenny Soffel, for CNN Ten years ago a Kuwaiti graduate from an American business school took a cab ride through London. By the end of the journey he had formed an idea which would spread across the world. It was the wake of 9/11, and [...]
5th Mobile Marketing Association Forum in Singapore Goes Beyond Basics to Deconstructing Mobile for Brands Speakers to include brands and advertising solution providers such as BMW, Coca-Cola, Dentsu Network/Asia, Kimberly- Clark Corporation, McDonald’s, Mindshare, Nielsen, Prudential Corporation Asia, Unilever, Vserv.mobi, and WPP Singapore, 17 June 2013 – The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) announced the [...]
1 trillion – that’s really a large number. This number is even mindboggling when a single company or entity commands a 13 digit market capitalisation. The closest to hit USD1 trillion market cap as a publicly traded company was Microsoft at USD 619 billion. To put this number into perspective, a trillion dollar market cap [...]
TechInAsia is bringing Crocodile in the Yangtze to Kuala Lumpur! Crocodile in the Yangtze is a documentary about the early days of Taobao, the e-store created by Alibaba founder and former CEO Jack Ma. The film’s producer, Porter Erisman, who worked at Alibaba for ten years, created the 75-minute documentary (see the trailer below) to [...]
How can startups collaborate with big corporations? Startups/ Small businesses just starting out face a multitude of challenges but they don’t necessarily have to tackle them all singlehandedly, like David facing multiple Goliaths. Going into some form of partnership with a bigger brand can be an enormous opportunity for a startup and take at least [...]
D-CODE BOOTCAMP 2013 What? A 3-day intensive coding bootcamp facilitated by experts from Silicon Valley, USA to teach you step by step to create Google Chrome Applications and Extensions using Javascript. You will have the chance to present it to a panel of judges and compete for a full scholarship to attend a 2-week basecamp at [...]
‘Exit’ is an event when you turn your investment into cash, or sometimes a mixture of cash and stocks in another company. For entrepreneurs and investors, exit happens through merger & acquisition (M&A), initial public offering (IPO) or liquidation (‘closing shop’, negative exit, when you take back less than what you put in). In the [...]
How did Hong Kong grow into such a powerful economy? Before Britain took over in 1840, Hong Kong was something of a nest of thieves, known as a base for pirates and hardly the sort of place anyone would have predicted would grow into today’s financial powerhouse. The only hints of civilisation were a small [...]
