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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

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. Let me highlight some of the book’s fascinating themes: Growth of Middle-Class Consumers.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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Next Vin Lim presented Qyzzy.com , which can be succinctly summarized as the Yelp of Malaysia. One thing Vin said that I liked a lot is that the Malaysian government is spending heavily on tourism development campaigns, and Qyzzy may be able to become a part of that campaign. That sounds great. It may also be expensive to do.

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Four Tips For Singaporean Startups To Ensure Success Past The Five Year Mark

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It should not really come as a surprise that this year, Singapore was ranked number one in the world for startup talent by Startup Genome, a US-based small business research and development firm. There are also efforts by the government to share data collected by public agencies through online portals as part of the Smart Nation initiative.

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[Singapore] Daylight Studios To Tap Growing Mobile Games Market With Two New Titles

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Despite the country’s modest size, the tiny island of Singapore seems to be producing game development firms at a prodigious rate. It took the team of 20 some 14 months to develop both games, said Don Sim, the co-founder and CEO of Daylight Studios. Take homegrown games studio Daylight Studios , for example.

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

In a very recent international bribery case, Alcatel-Lucent decided to pay $137 million to settle charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials to win and maintain contracts in Costa Rica, Hondurus, Taiwan and Malaysia. In practice that meant that we could once again focus on running our sales and service activities.

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Legal Impact Of Data Protection And Management In The Digital Age

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As organisations look towards data to track consumer patterns and guide business direction, they should also be mindful of the legal regulations that govern the protection of data and the possibility of a data breach. Ensuring compliance in an evolving landscape. .

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

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). 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization.