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How The Covid-19 Pandemic Boosted Adoption Of Emerging Technologies In Southeast Asia

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by Shaun Djie, Co-Founder & COO of Digix. Amidst the outbreak, governments across the region, such as Singapore have been promoting the use of digital finance as a means to minimise physical contact and stamp the spread of the virus, channelling more monetary support for the growth of e-payments and digital financial solutions.

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

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In the same year, Singapore did not improve its credit terms with export customers either. Research has found three reasons why foreign customers were late paying Singapore suppliers 1 : Financial problems. billion pa industry, and is starting to gain traction in Singapore. per cent were written off as uncollectable.

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[Asia] Socialbakers Opens Asia Pacific HQ In Singapore

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Global social media analytics and optimization company Socialbakers has announced the opening of its new Asia-Pacific headquarters based in Singapore. In the News Asia Pacific digital marketing Singapore social analytics social media Socialbakers' ”By 2017, Asia-Pacific will have the largest social network population worldwide.

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[Singapore] MyRepublic Continues To Disrupt Telco Industry With Teleport

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Being an industry-disrupting new company is always extremely challenging, and none more so if you’re looking at a highly-regulated one with just a small number of strong players like that of Singapore’s telecommunications industry. But the journey hasn’t been a totally smooth one, as its founders attest.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

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Classes on growth hacking are being taught in Singapore. Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit. Channel instability. Channel saturation. Market leaders may be left behind.

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Mobile Marketplace Carousell Launches In Singapore

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Although I had wanted to sell items for several months, I found it troublesome to put them up for sale on the existing online marketplace channels,” says Quek Siu Rui, who set up Carousell with Marcus Tan and Lucas Ngoo.

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Going Global: Five Tips For Singapore Startups Looking To Market Beyond Local Shores

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by Jason Humphries, co-founder of Good Pharma Dermatology. What are the secret ingredients needed to take your company beyond Singapore’s shores? Venturing overseas is challenging and there have been recent calls for the government to further support trade associations to help local SMEs in Singapore expand in this region.

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