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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 [...]
“We are in the business of selling happiness” that is one of the mantra of the Abang Burn team. Creating a tasty meat product is their forte but to sell it is successfully to the consumers is the most challenging. In short, it’s about how to ensure your consumers love your brand in the long [...]
A Cheap self-driving cars, charging your smartphone in 20-seconds? These under-20s are changing the world. Can you still remember what you were doing back when you were 17, or 18-year-old? Doubt it will be anything groundbreaking or world changing, at least for the majority of us. In the past week, there were 3 young bright [...]
