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Elephanti – Stomping Into The Mobile Marketing Space

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Brick-and-mortar businesses – large and small – are increasingly looking towards the online and mobile spaces to boost flagging retail sales. This trend has also sparked the onrush of online and mobile marketing startups eager to answer this need. Will Mobile Marketing Be The New Daily Deal? ”

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[Singapore] ACE Announces Grant Awardees, Launches Mentorship Program

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The successful startups were evaluated based on their business differentiation, feasibility of their business model, potential market opportunity, and the capability of the management team. Zinicat , a food recommendation app which leverages technologies used in financial analytics.

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[Singapore] Newstead Technologies On Retail

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The retail business in Singapore is an extremely cutthroat one – between demanding consumers and intense competition, many retailers have to deal with rocketing sky-high rents and sometimes unreasonable landlords. ” Dealing With Landlords. “Consumers young and old are adopting a digital lifestyle,” Evelyn says.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

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They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. This is supported by the East’s dispersed and young populations, high mobile penetration rates, growth of 2nd and 3rd tier inner cities (particularly in China), and traffic congestion. A “China + 1″ Strategy.

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[Singapore] Exploit Technologies To Collaborate With Asia News Network On Media Solutions

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Key technology areas covered include human language (speech and text) processing, mobile imaging, video processing and analytics. As a result, iSnap-enabled newspapers have all seen mobile app downloads and usage jump by over 100 percent in under three months from their respective launches.

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

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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. hours per day, on their mobile phones. hours per day, on their mobile phones.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? I want to put a pin in Singapore and come back to it. People price differentiate all the time. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. Simply put, there is amble room for improvement.