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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

The first platform we launched was our Singaporean site and we realised that most large companies there provide their staff with basic health insurance coverage and the same goes for Malaysia and Thailand. Especially in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines where people are a lot more responsive over the phone.

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[Event] Ukraine, Thailand And US Take Top Spots At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

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Thailand team TANG Thai and U.S. First Place: TANG Thai (Thailand). Students select one of two tracks (Phone or Xbox/Windows) to create games that not only are fun but also help to improve the world at the same time. Xbox/Windows. Second Place: The Doers (Brazil). Third Place: Hotfix (Belgium). Second Place: Ecosia (France).

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Singapore Image Recognition Technology Used by Asia’s Newspapers

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A Singapore-based start-up company will soon have its technology adopted by a number of leading Asian newspapers, including Thailand’s The Nation , Hong Kong’s China Daily and The Star of Malaysia. by George Graver. Knorex has already negotiated a number of deals to implement iSnap functionality in Asian newspapers.

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Innovation: The Key To Entrepreneurial Success

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Based in Singapore, Dr Reddington leads the overall planning and implementation of corporate strategies and operations, and manages over 2,900 employees in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

Both Sides of the Table

We are the most diverse city in America — perhaps the world — with 200 nationalities, 100 languages and the largest population outside of a home country for 39 nations around the world including Mexico, South Korea, Armenia, the Philippines, Thailand and many others.

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Daily Deals Still A Big Deal In Asia; All Deals Asia Launches iPhone App

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The app allows deals to be sorted by country, date, popularity, categories or proximity, making it easy for users to browse deals.

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[Interview] Benjamin Yee of EMERGE App

YoungUpstarts

Navigating a rented motorbike through the winding hills of Vietnam and swimming in secret lagoons in Thailand are just some of the things that Benjamin Yee does when he’s not typing furiously away at this laptop.