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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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China’s OPPO Sees Opportunity For Mobile In Southeast Asia

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If there’s any indication that the mobile handset markets in Southeast Asia is ripe for the taking, it’s the sudden interest from a number of China-based handset vendors that started to introduce their mobile products into the region’s markets. Gadgets mobile OPPO Singapore Southeast Asia'

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These Are The Most Exciting FinTechs To Emerge In Southeast Asia

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The countries are Singapore (490 FinTechs), Indonesia (262 FinTechs), Malaysia (196 FinTechs), Thailand (128 FinTechs), Philippines (115 FinTechs), and Vietnam (77 FinTechs). Quoine is a cryptocurrency company based in Singapore, with operations in Vietnam and Japan. M_Service (MoMo).

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Expanding your startup into Asia? Here’s how to build out your operations in the region

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The inspiration for my second post came from the many CEOs and entrepreneurs who come to me knowing they want to go after Asia and are aware of their target markets, but unsure of the best approach to start building out their operations on the ground. Hire the right people – local and entrepreneurial.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

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Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam each have a couple of very good VC firms. Moreover, the Singapore firms are very open to investing outside of Singapore, as they realize that Singapore itself is too small as a domestic market and thus, some of the best startups will be in-market around the region.

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[Singapore] Evernote Partners StarHub to Expand Footprint Here

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“We’ve also seen good traction in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand.” It is uncertain how many existing StarHub customers already use Evernote – it has a total mobile customer base of around 2.25 million of which around 1.2

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

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Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). New vistas of opportunities would also be developed as Cloud technologies change the way businesses operate.