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[Asia] Tech In Asia Buys GameSaku In Acquisition Blitz

YoungUpstarts

Just a week after Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) completed its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, the startup and technology blog today announced that it has also acquired Indonesia-based gaming blog GameSaku from Apps Foundry. In the News acquisition Asia GamesInAsia.

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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

“I think there’s still many opportunities in this vertical in South East Asia and it’s one that takes on multiple forms – local shopping, local eating, local jobs,” muses Yongfook. ” “The third is a secret, but it addresses a huge market with only one major incumbent.”

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

Its cloud platform lets sales and marketing teams connect and share information about customers and prospects, and developers have enriched the value of the platform with a host of applications that integrate to the platform and add to its functionality. Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world. That starts with platform thinking.

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CEO Shaking Up the AI Industry With a Robotic Reading Companion for Kids

Hearpreneur

After graduation, I worked at Microsoft Research Asia and Baidu Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), both of which are well-known research institutions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). I felt this was a good time to use my experience in human-computer interaction to build AI products that can be recognized by the market and users.

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12 Entrepreneurs Reveal What They Look Forward To in 2019

Hearpreneur

I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. Marketing agencies are known for having to lay off good people when they lose big accounts. In 2019 I’ll continue to shift from time for money income sources to becoming fully location independent. 6- Diversity.

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When to sell your company

Version One Ventures

Looking back, there were several factors limiting our ability to grow, including: Geographical markets: We had internationalized to five non-English speaking countries in Europe, but felt that conquering Asia was too risky an endeavor for a relatively small company (our platform revenues were in the hundreds of millions of dollars).

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Welcome To The Year Of The Customer

YoungUpstarts

by Simon Tate, Area Vice President for Commercial Business – Asia, Salesforce. Simon Tate is a 20 year IT veteran and is currently Vice President of Commercial Sales Asia for Salesforce. The rise of mobile and social technologies has made end-users more empowered and knowledgeable than ever before.

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