Tag: Investment
Charting Indonesia’s Burgeoning Startup Ecology
Amid pungent wafts of spices and stifling tropical heat, a struggling middle class of bright minds and unnerving spirit is brining the regional limelight to Jakarta and the surrounding cities. Their version of the vision for Pax Javanicus demonstrates how Indonesia could enjoy modern enterprise and consumerism, just like anybody else. And just like anybody [...]
Telltales and Lessons Building Up Around “Starting Up” and Malaysia
When Facebook acquired Malaysian startup Octazen, the limelight shifted temporarily to Malaysian startup talents. As reported in February 2010, the move was “purely a talent acquisition,” with both founders of Octazen now employees of Facebook. It came to no surprises as the Company previously develops solutions allowing social network users to import contacts from other [...]
Indochina’s e-Commerce Affair: Vietnam to attain US$6b transactions by 2015
Vietnam’s e-commerce is estimated to attain US$6.0 bil. worth of online payment transactions by 2015, according to economists attending the IT business support seminar held by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vietnam (VCCI). As the Vietnamese authority continue to follow-up with the Doi Moi reforms, US, German and Russian investors are pouring into [...]
Mobile and Web Applications to Receive a Healthy Dose of Injection
And it never gets more competitive. Tech entrepreneurs are gearing up in the race to develop ever more innovative ways to improve consumers’ health experience. Health startups are generating much interest among investors, thinking that this may well become the next transformation in line. It has been estimated that hospitals, medical centers, health systems, pharmaceuticals [...]
