The Rise Of Senior Citizens On Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
As I’m writing this article, I am quite curious on what my grandma is doing now. But have you ever wondered what would happen if your grandparents have a Facebook account? According to a report by...
View ArticleMobile Usage in Japan, United States and Europe [INFOGRAPHIC]
In terms of mobile usage, Japanese is the most connected group as compared to Americans and Europeans. That is the conclusion drawn from the infographic created by Metagrafic powered with comScore...
View ArticleSingapore Startup Dropmysite Acquires US-Based OrbitFiles.com
Just this April, Singapore-based Dropmysite announced that it crossed half a million users. Two months on, it has just acquired OrbitFiles, a US-based cloud backup and sharing solution website, for an...
View ArticleChina to Pass US in Smartphone Shipments; India and Brazil Next In Line
The latest report from research firm IDC yesterday showed that in contrast to its March’s report, China will surpass the United States in terms of smartphone shipments quite comfortably by 8.7 percent...
View ArticleAustralian Startup Kickfolio Raises $100,000, Enters 500 Startups
What’s better than kick-starting the day with a double-dose of good news? Our friends over at Kickfolio, a Melbourne-based startup that allows you to create kickass portfolios within 30 seconds, has...
View ArticleUS-Based Buy.com to be Rebranded as ‘Rakuten Shopping’ This Week
Yesterday we mentioned that Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten (JSD: 4755) is opening a Singapore office to enlarge the company’s presence even more in Southeast Asia. But the Japanese company is also...
View ArticleDropmyemail picks Texas over Silicon Valley for US office. Here’s why…
Dropmyemail, a Singapore-based startup that backups emails in the cloud, has opened a sales and business development office in Dallas, Texas — an unusual location since Silicon Valley is frequently the...
View ArticleX-Factor USA winner Melanie Amaro launches debut single on TwitMusic
Melanie Amaro, champion of X-Factor USA season one, a reality TV singing contest started by media mogul Simon Cowell, has released her debut single “Don’t Fail Me Now” on TwitMusic, a service which...
View ArticleSingaporean team at Quora develops and launches new feature called Embedded...
A Singaporean quartet is responsible for Quora’s latest feature, called Embedded Quotes. It enables users to easily extract and embed full posts or snippets from Quora, a popular crowdsourced Q&A...
View ArticleOne Cent Movement rounds up online purchases to nearest dollar; donates...
Imagine buying a cup of coffee, an iPod or an airplane ticket online, and each purchase is rounded up to the nearest dollar. The difference goes directly to charity. One Cent Movement is a...
View ArticleiSTART@Silicon Valley targets start-ups wishing to break into the US market
Companies thinking of entering the US market for a long time but afraid of taking such a risk may find iSTART@SV Programme a timely fit. Organized by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA),...
View ArticleHow GameMaki came back from the brink to become a blueprint for Singapore’s...
The GameMaki team had a turbulent 2011, but their circumstances has improved. From left: Jesslyn, Keith, Damon, and Brenda. Photo: GameMaki. Startups in Singapore are caught in a bind. While located in...
View ArticleSingapore’s BillPin acquires BillMonk, plans to shut it down and migrate user...
Bill, meet Bill. At one point, BillMonk was right up there as the most popular social billing apps in the world. Recently however, it has been suffering from neglect and experienced plenty of...
View ArticleSleek, pre-assembled 3D printer at USD 347? Here’s how Pirate3D is doing it
The Buccaneer and the Power Mac G4 Cube. The resemblance isn’t coincidental. There hasn’t been a pre-launch product from a Singapore startup that has garnered this much press attention for a long...
View ArticleSingapore’s first Thiel Fellow kickstarts Haptix, a device that could replace...
Darren has ambitious plans for Haptix. Nineteen-year-old Singaporean Darren Lim flirted with science and innovation while studying in Chengdu, China. Together with fellow high schooler Lai Xue, they...
View ArticleApp Annie: Growing a Beijing startup into a global brand in 3 years
If you ask what’s a startup to watch here in China, I gotta admit App Annie is one of the first that comes to mind. It is probably one of the few companies founded in Beijing by a group of expatriates...
View ArticleLine considering an IPO to boost global expansion
The Korea Herald yesterday reported that popular messaging app Line is considering an IPO. Line recently surpassed 230 million users worldwide, and says 300 million would be the threshold for an IPO....
View ArticleApple has been trying to trademark ‘startup’ since 2011 in Singapore, China,...
Digital News Asia reported today that Apple has filed a trademark for the word ‘startup’ in Malaysia, which will cover retail store services, hardware maintenance, education services, as well as...
View ArticleWhy iPhones are actually cheaper in China than the US (INFOGRAPHIC)
China’s second largest telco China Unicom announced today it will offer packages for customers to receive a free iPhone 5S or 5C with a contract. The catch? The contract is three years long for a 5C...
View ArticleProgrammer using Nitrous.IO and Chromebook to teach homeless New Yorker how...
Patrick McConlogue, a Manhattan-based programmer, has embarked on an intriguing endeavor — that of teaching a homeless man how to code. While he has gotten a lot of brickbats for the idea, that has...
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