YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2017

by Kamal Brar, Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific at Hortonworks . For most in Asia, AI in its most basic forms is already evident in daily lives. Enterprises forecasted to be most affected by AI in Asia include: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and transportation.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2015

Twitter last week announced that it has opened its office in Singapore, officially designating it as its headquarters for the Asia Pacific region. The new regional headquarters will be home to a wide range of business functions, including sales, partnerships, marketing, HR, finance, user services, legal, policy, and trust & safety.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2013

The music scene in Singapore looks set to grow by volumes with today’s announcement that music streaming service Spotify is now available here. Music fans in the country now has on-demand, legal access to over 20 million music tracks – and for free.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? Spanning halfway round the globe – from Turkey to the United Arab Emirates to India, South East Asia and China – the book brings one on a fascinating tour of the complex business characteristics governing our neck of the woods.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

With venture capitalists around the world shifting their focus to Asia, here are 5 ways the surge in venture capital fundraising is shaking up the startup landscape in the region. KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 In May, the Indonesian on-demand motorbike startup Go-Jek managed to raise $1.2

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

One of more interesting trends touched on during Crowdsourcing Week in Singapore last week , but was not explored in any great detail, was the how online work has been taking off in Asia as part of the changing work landscape in this part of the world. Demand for, and the supply of, online talent in Asia on the rise.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2012

But a new Singapore hardware startup, AFTERSHOCK PC , believes it can compete in this market with its range of custom laptops wholly dedicated for gaming. AFTERSHOCK PC has announced that it’s making available two customizable gaming notebook computers in Southeast Asia – the more compact AFTERSHOCK X11 in a 11.6-inch

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2013

It looks like the Singapore worker has a big and growing appetite when it comes to salary expectations. According to the online survey, 42% of workers in Singapore are seeking positions with a salary between 1,500 to 3,499 SGD, compared to 38% of Hong Kong workers who demand a higher salary between 2,449 to 4,899 SGD ( see diagram left ).

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. A country that is in the process of moving from a developing to a developed stage is considered an emerging economy or market. Emerging Markets As The Pocket Full Of Potential.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2012

This payment solution was beta-tested by merchants such as Russian-themed restaurant and caviar bar Buyan in Singapore since June last year, and is now launched worldwide, with the company targeting Southeast Asia, South Africa and South America as key target markets. Today, Swiff is unique in its ability to do so.”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. For several different versions of the on-demand economy in other parts of the world, the term itself may be alien, its implications unknown. Grab In Focus.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

According to a recent Research And Markets report , corresponding with explosive growth in the demand for mobile broadband is a similar increase for Over-the-Top (OTT) content, where the delivery of video, audio and other media over the Internet other than via a service provider’s own dedicated, managed IPTV network. billion by 2018.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Connectivity is changing the face of business in Asia Pacific and the world. While it is difficult to predict what exactly will happen next, there are four key trends that we believe are important to the business world, especially in Asia. This is a key factor contributing to a global trade market worth in excess of US$15 trillion.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2011

This year’s first Keynote Panel Discussion at Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia will be examining the profile of consumers that can be reached via social media, both regionally and globally and how the social web is changing their attitudes. Young Upstarts is a Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia and Apps World Asia 2011 media partner.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2013

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore facing critical challenges in doing business in-country – with its manpower crunch, high rental costs and small domestic market – may want to consider exploring participating in the global e-commerce market, says PayPal. What have we been selling?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60 million in funding. This is the second part of a four-part series that will provide insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. A business cannot even realistically cover a subset of those countries from Singapore.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. The supply and demand for healthcare goods is increasingly global, driven by emerging economies, longer life expectancy and technological advancements. [2]. That is particularly true for the Asia Pacific, the new center of gravity for healthcare. By Dr. Karen M.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

According to figures despite, or perhaps because of, its relatively small size, Singapore is the fourth most expensive centre for investment in hotels in the world with only London, New York and Hong Kong ahead of it. So in a world where supply and demand is key, Singapore does certainly have the ratio pretty much right.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

To address the rise in demand for mobile Internet, service providers are increasingly looking to (or will be forced to) off-load traffic to fixed or Wi-Fi networks despite many global mobile carriers deploying 4G technologies to address s consumer and business users’ demand. Asia To Generate Most Mobile Data Traffic by 2017.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. CRMs / marketing tech generally work. Messaging / email generally works. Ads generally work. Payments work.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. CRMs / marketing tech generally work. Messaging / email generally works. Ads generally work. Payments work.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

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. Here’s a look at how five Asia Pacific countries rate: COUNTRY. Philippines.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

“The key to running any business is that you are continuously growing and adapting to consumer demands and behavior,” muses TheLuxeNomad founder and Chief Nomad, Stephanie Chai. ” With this pivot, Chai explains, the startup now covers different ends of the luxury travel market.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

by Simon Tate, Area Vice President for Commercial Business – Asia, Salesforce. The millennials, aged between 18-35 years old, now make up more than 25% of Singapore’s current resident population, according to Singapore’s Department of Statistics. They are highly educated and mobile centric.

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Transformify

AUGUST 16, 2020

Transformify , a UK-based Freelancer Management System (FMS), has partnered up with Xoxoday , an HR Software company based in India that has offices in Singapore, Australia, the US, Ireland and the Philippines, to boost its expansion across Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2018

For manufacturers, this means having the capability to establish fully connected and digitized supply chains where product development, marketing, production, and distribution are all fully connected, thus increasing efficiency and output. One way to do this is to start using digital marketing tools now. Be Updated. Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2015

Adding AI into logistics unshackles manufacturers, suppliers and buyers to fine tune their inventory to actual demand. Modern supply chains that are the core of global commerce have come a long way from a cart pulled by a horse to market. Thinking Aloud global trade Internet of Things Karen Reddington supply chain management'

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We see the biggest demand for crowdsourcing and our service coming from small businesses and entrepreneurs in the US who seem to love crowdsourcing. DesignCrowd is also keen on exploring new markets. The country also provides DesignCrowd with its largest source of designers, and revenues there have doubled in the last six months alone.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Jon Yongfook is a serial entrepreneur based in Asia. He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. Startups are a special breed of companies when it comes to marketing. Rely on cheaper forms of marketing : Blogging, email, viral tactics etc. What is this?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. To tackle this, B-Free researched and patented another product based on market demand. By Dr. Karen M.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Because we African-Americans have our own urban communities, we are smart people and there is real demand for innovation, our people can quickly move forward with blockchain and go straight to market. And expand out to Asia to get the money up. Augmented currency is the true approach and the right approach, not virtual currency.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Business units are demanding mobile apps to help them win, serve and retain customers, simply because that’s what customers expect to see, thanks to the pervasiveness of the Apple and Google app stores. If your first app was delivered on iOS, there will inevitably be demands that the same be made available on Android devices.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2020

The foreign exchange is unique in the financial market, as it remains accessible to investors 24-hours a day and six days a week. This is just one of the reasons why the market is so lucrative, with an estimated $6 trillion now traded every single day globally. The Asian Forex Session. The European Trading Session.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

by Shirin Anne Wan, Head of Customer Care for QuickBooks Asia Pacific. Building (and Growing) a Business in the On-Demand Economy. . The good news is that the rise of the on-demand economy makes these questions easier than ever to answer. Starting Your Small Business via the On-Demand Economy.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2017

Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. Thanks to big data analytics and changing customer expectations, demand forecasting is more sophisticated. Get it right, and you’ll be on the way to achieving efficiencies, reduced time-to-market, cost savings, improved productivity and revenue gains. ”, Netland, T, March 2015. [11]

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2014

Right among them is a new development along Phuket’s Bangtao beach that’s somewhat different: Singapore-based property development Castlewood Group is building its upcoming Nikki Beach Hotel & Spa in Phuket – a partnership with beach resort brand Nikki Beach – as a potential asset class for small investors.

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