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[Asia] Online Social Stay Marketplace travelmob Continues Push Into Asia

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The growth of the online social stay and vacation market has been garnering quite a bit of attention, spearheaded in the United States by San Francisco-headquartered Airbnb but which has pretty much spread across the world. In the News Asia Asia Pacific online marketplace social stay travelmob vacation rental'

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[Singapore] Crowdsourcing Week – Crowdsourcing Soon To Come Of Age In Asia

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total in funding on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter ) and “Main Street Matters”, where paint manufacturer Benjamin Moore used crowdsourcing as part of its marketing campaign to decide on the colors that would decorate certain main streets in the United States. “ Elance believes in the power and nature of the online crowd.

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[Asia] Kark Mobile Education Lands Funding From Indonesia’s Indeosource

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We will be unveiling our exciting new product aimed at the family education market shortly.”. “ Ideosource always invests in innovative products and companies, and we think Kark is a good innovation in digital industry,” says Ideosource director Andi Surja Boediman.

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Significant Percentage Of Global Email Traffic Is Spam: Cloudmark

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Don’t we all hate email or SMS spam – those meaningless, time-wasting pieces of unsolicited digital miscommunication masquerading as marketing messages, for example. Here’s a look at how five Asia Pacific countries rate: COUNTRY. Consider this – there were 210 billion reported incidents of spam in 2012.

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

To close, Judith Estrin gave us a talk on having sustainable technology, not necessarily related to sustainability as in green, but how to make sure innovation continues to happen. I was intrigued by her bio, CTO at Cisco, currently or previously a board member at Disney, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. Gotta love that!

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

To close, Judith Estrin gave us a talk on having sustainable technology, not necessarily related to sustainability as in green, but how to make sure innovation continues to happen. I was intrigued by her bio, CTO at Cisco, currently or previously a board member at Disney, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. Gotta love that!

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[Event] Tech In Asia Jakarta 2015

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Online platform for Asia’s tech community Tech in Asia will round off its highly vaunted Tech In Asia Conference series for this year with Tech In Asia Jakarta 2015 , which will take place on 11 and 12 November 2015 at Balai Kartini. More speakers will be confirmed closer to date.

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