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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

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That obsession with food had inspired Jon Yongfook Cockle to put together, as a weekend hacking experiment , a website that does a take on content aggregation around food reviews. Opinioneated essentially pulls food reviews from established Singapore bloggers and aggregates them on a map of Singapore.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

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The first logical step when you are based in Singapore is to start in a market you are most comfortable in conquering. It is logical and sometimes it is the right choice starting from Singapore, sometimes not. There are three market categories that startups from Singapore are likely to address: 1.

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[Asia] Location-Aware Mobile Advertising Platform Launches In Southeast Asia

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Singapore-headquartered location-aware mobile advertising platform AdNear earlier this week announced its foray into the Southeast Asian markets of Malaysia and Indonesia, opening up its platform for advertisers who are looking to enable precision advertising on consumer mobile devices in those countries.

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[Singapore] Hotel Reservation Services Opens Regional HQ

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Cologne, Germany-based Hotel Reservation Service (HRS) , the leading hotel portal in Europe for business and private travelers, late last month announced its official expansion in the Asia Pacific with the opening of its regional headquarters in Singapore. In the News Hotel Reservation Service HRS Singapore'

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Financial Literacy Across Asia Declining: Mastercard

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Financial services provider MasterCard has announced the results of its MasterCard Financial Literacy Index, which revealed that progress towards improving basic finance knowledge and skills across Asia Pacific has stalled as 12 of 16 countries record lower scores in financial literacy.

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[Singapore] Frambie Wins Young Entrepreneur Awards 2011

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Perhaps that is the reason why it emerged as the grand winner of the recent 2 nd Young Entrepreneur Awards (YEA), jointly organized by hardware maker Canon and Singapore-based broadcaster MediaCorp. Frambie , founded by Malaysian Beh Weng Wei, allows you to upload any photos and images to the site, and pick personalized frames for them.

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[Singapore] SingTel Innovation Exchange Introduces myBusiness Techblog

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SingTel Innovation Exchange (Six) – the partner development program of Singapore-headquartered Asia telecommunications provider SingTel – has launched myBusiness techblog , an online information resource on business, innovation and technology, targeted at small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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