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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 will be held in Bangkok, Thailand this year. Thousands of BlackBerry enthusiasts come together for sessions, demonstrations, hands-on labs and keynotes — all focused on creating mobile applications for the powerful BlackBerry platform. Approximately 3,000 apps available for PlayBook.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. Mobile penetration in SEA is much higher than in the US (on a volume basis). Here’s a concrete example: we met with a health company based in Thailand who flew to Singapore to pitch investors. Thailand has nearly 70m people.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. Mobile penetration in SEA is much higher than in the US (on a volume basis). Here’s a concrete example: we met with a health company based in Thailand who flew to Singapore to pitch investors. Thailand has nearly 70m people.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I set up my business to be distributed, so although my company is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, I live in Thailand most of the time. It’s opened my life up to new possibilities, from an elephant sanctuary to a life partner – and, I still regularly travel outside Thailand. Photo Credit: Chane Steiner.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

Sourcing may also involve several trips to China, India, Thailand, or other countries and cities that you may not otherwise consider traveling to for vacation. If you do a launch it’s rare for the launch to take of organically, it must also be accompanied by a level of paid distribution (i.e.

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Coronavirus: Will It Boost the Adoption Of Remote Work?

Transformify

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. Let alone the fact that not all employees were equipped with company laptops, mobile phones and other electronic devices. billion of tourism revenue in the first quarter due to the drop in Chinese travelers while Thailand could lose $1.15

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41% Of Attack Traffic Originates From China – Akamai

YoungUpstarts

According to data in the latest State of the Internet Report provided by Akamai Technologies , 56% of all malignant traffic observed by its customers – such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks – originate from the Asia Pacific/Oceania region, with China contributing a full 41%.

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