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Private, Invite-Only Online Shopping With Brandsfever

The recent hype over online group-buying Groupon has brought an avalanche of similar clones into the fore, but an upcoming online shopping site in Singapore is taking quite a different tack. We look at Brandsfever, a members-only, exclusive online shopping club.

A Live Chat With Royston Tay Of Zopim

Contributing writer Caroline Yeung sat down with Royston Tay, CEO and co-founder of Singapore-based startup Zopim, which created a live chat application for online businesses to talk to customers, to get to know more about the company.

Real Estate Developer Danny Haber Of oWOW Reinvigorates Bay Area

oWOW founder Danny Haber is redeveloping the Bay Area property market with exciting new developments, including 674 23rd Street, 960 Howard St., and 316 12th St., among others.

Why Niche Start-Ups Are Making Waves In 2020

Success in business is all about finding your niche and finding ways to serve it in the best way possible. We look at a few of the innovative start-ups making waves in 2020.

Craftsvilla – An Online Marketplace For Indian Crafts

Craftsvilla (www.craftsvilla.com) sells handmade and handcrafted items from across rural India.

OWA Beer – From Europe And Japan, With Love.

Most people are surprised to learn that OWA Beer, with bold Japanese Kanji characters emblazoned across its washi-like bottle labels, is actually Belgian in origin.

[Sponsored] MyTransport.SG – A One-Stop Source For Commuting Info In Singapore

LTA's MyTransport.SG combines many transport-related features into a single mobile app, aimed at enabling commuters, motorists and even cyclists in the country to check relevant, real-time traffic information to plan their journeys.
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Richelieu Dennis – A Professional And Philanthropic Journey

Richelieu Dennis is a philanthropist that cares deeply about social issues that impact the communities that he cares about most.

Singapore Startup AFTERSHOCK PC Guns For Gaming Laptop Market

A new Singapore hardware startup, AFTERSHOCK PC, believes it can compete in the laptop market with its range of custom laptops wholly dedicated for gaming.

Penn Olson on Social Media and Marketing

We talk to university undergraduates Willis Wee and Sarah Chong, the brains behind highly-influential Singapore-based social media and marketing blog Penn Olson, read by marketing practitioners from all around the region.

The Garden Slug – Slugging It Out In The Food Business

Located in an idyllic part of eastern Singapore, The Garden Slug is a quirky and bohemian diner that offers Western-style homemade comfort food. The owners share their story.

VoucherWOW Rewards Collective Buying

VoucherWOW is a new Singapore-based startup that is looking to position itself as the website where visitors tap on the power of group-buying for the best deals in Singapore.

10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media shares 10 online platforms that help you make extra cash and help with those expensive holiday costs.

What Do You Want To Buy At 12Buy.sg?

Local IT retailer Challenger Technologies is now extending its reach online, and is hoping that Singaporeans will take to buying from its newly-launched, and the country's first mass category lifestyle shopping portal, 12Buy.sg.

KneeBouncers.com – Simple Games For The Little Ones

Kneebouncers.com was launched by entrepreneurs Jim Robinson and Kurt Dommermuth in 2009 as a way for very young children to experience the fun of computer gaming even before they are able to really understand computer functions.

JHAudio – Making An Audiophile’s Dream In-Ear Monitors

JHAudio is a designer and manufacturer of premium, custom in-ear audio monitors for professional musicians, audiophiles and music lovers, as well as avionics equipment for pilots.

[Singapore] MyRepublic Continues To Disrupt Telco Industry With Teleport

MyRepublic celebrates its one year anniversary by introducing Teleport, a new VPN-like service that lets its users stream content from online services from around the world like Hulu, Pandora, Netflix and BBC iPlayer without the need for cumbersome traditional VPN methods.

[Singapore] Crowdsourcing Week – Crowdsourcing Soon To Come Of Age In Asia

Crowdsourcing Week was an inaugural event in Singapore which aimed to bring together a diverse audience from various industries - creative, government, startup and technology - and bring about discussion on the issues surrounding crowdsourcing and how that can apply in their individual environments.

Creately.com Reshapes Project Management

Creately.com is a project management tool with built-in features for built-in reviewing, easy collaboration, and comprehensive diagramming functions that helps teams manage and deliver their projects.

ELOHIM: God-Inspired Fashion

Early this year during the Audi Fashion Festival, featured alongside fashion heavyweights Gareth Pugh, Vivienne Westwood, Christian Lacroix and Marc Jacobs was a little known local label called ELOHIM.

VoIP – Why Is It So Lucrative For Small And Medium Businesses?

There seems to be a lot of hype surrounding VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and unified communications. Here's a look at some of the numbers surrounding the space when it comes to small and medium businesses wanting to use it.

Gothere.sg – Helping Singapore Find Its Way

Dominic Ee, Toh Kian Khai, Kuan Chih Yuan and Ang Jun Han is the team behind one of Singapore's most promising startups gothere.sg, a location-based service provider whose map and directional search engine that is steadily becoming the quintessential service for finding your way around Singapore.

Charting A New Real-Time, Collaborative Experience With LucidChart

LucidChart (www.lucidchart.com) is a collaborative web-based diagramming and flowchart application that allows users to communicate more effectively visually with the use of flowcharts, wireframes, website prototypes, process diagrams, Unified Modeling Language (UML) artifacts and models, and more.

2 Real Time-Saving Hacks That Every Entrepreneur Should Know

If you are in business, these 2 time-saving hacks could transform your working day, reduce stress and increase your personal productivity dramatically.

Top 9 Cryptocurrency Exchanges In Australia

There has been a rapid increase in the number of cryptocurrency exchanges operating in Australia over the past five years.

Christian Arno & Lingo24 – Translating The Language For Success

In just eight years, Christian Arno grew his translation company Lingo24 from a home-based business to a company of 112 full-time employees working across four continents, with clients in over sixty countries and an annual turnover of over US$6m.

The Philanthropic Efforts Of James Dondero

The Philanthropic Efforts of James Dondero

[Singapore] Designs On A New Furniture Future

Singapore's furniture sector may be experiencing a new revolution, with a flood of designers taking up or venturing into creating products for a traditional industry.

SpiritHoods – Getting Into The Spirit

SpiritHoods was founded by four young men - Ashley Haber, Chase Hamilton, Marley Marotta and Alexander Mendeluk - who birthed the company out of love, love for friends and family, for their families, and all living things around them.

[Interview] Kevin Hobbs Of Vancouver’s Vanbex Group

As CEO of Vanbex Group, Kevin Hobb aims to further the education and adoption of blockchain, DLT, and Smart Contract technology into everyday real world applications.