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A Love for Books Actually
Kenny and Karen have a common, and almost obsessive, passion for books. The couple's first date was spent at the National Library, later followed...
Friendgiftr.com Reinvents The Gift Card Economy
Tinseltown is better known for producing movie stars, but there may be another star in the making in Hollywood, California-based startup Friendgiftr.com.
Kembrel – Private Online Shopping Club For Students
Online private shopping club sites usually target higher-end, premium fashion customers. An interesting twist to this concept is US-based Kembrel, a campus-focused private shopping community catered exclusively for students.
Propmatch.com Props Up Property Search
The online property portal market in Singapore last month saw a new addition with the launch of Propmatch (www.propmatch.com), which promises to revolutionize hunting for Singapore property on the Web.
Enterprise Messaging Comes Of Age With sqoope
Everybody’s on an instant messaging app these days.
Fast, convenient and almost idiot-proof, they allow us to communicate quickly with each other via text, photos,...
8 Online Businesses Disrupting Their Industry
Often the only way for companies to establish themselves in a market is to do something innovative and take the shine off their competitors. Patrick Smith of Housesimple looks at some of the most innovative online businesses disrupting their industries (including his own).
How The 5G Revolution Emerged And How It Will Give Business A Boost
Just as 3G opened up the app market and 4G created a demand for mobile broadband applications, 5G will open up vast economic potential for Internet of Things applications.
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.
GIVE.sg – A Better Way to Give
If giving is a blessing, GIVE.sg wants to make it easier to bless others by democratizing the act of giving.
Storably.com – Peer-to-Peer Marketplace For Renting Storage Or Carpark Space
Storably.com (www.storably.com) is an online peer-to-peer marketplace for parking and storage.
Visual Factory – Stitching Together A 3D Virtual World of Opportunity
Ilan Ofek is a 20-year veteran in the defense industry. However, these days he brings his knowledge in image understanding, simulation systems and advanced artificial intelligence to build his 3D immersive social network startup, Visual Factory.
Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe
GoFundMe.com is a crowdfunding platform that lets someone collect donations for a personal cause or a life event. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters.
Our Town – A Family Legacy
Michael Plummer, Jr never really wanted to follow in his entrepreneurial father's footsteps. His father Michael Plummer, Sr had built Florida-based Our Town from scratch since 1972, but Junior had never really wanted anything to do with it.
CrowdSPRING – A Springboard For Creative Ideas
The creative agency business that insists on its traditional way of sourcing for work could be in peril. Not because of the worsening global economy, although that is one reason, but because of one little company based in Chicago called crowdSPRING.
LogoMyWay – Designers Do It Their Way
Columbus, Ohio-based LogoMyWay.com is a community site that revolves around client-commissioned contests for crowd-sourced professional logo designs.
MyMela.com – An Online Marketplace For India’s Artisans
MyMela.com is a global marketplace that lets you access India’s fashion, accessories and home décor handicrafts, with a micro-lending function.
Inventory And Sales Management App TradeGecko Enters Public Beta
Targeted for small- to medium-sized enterprises, cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS application TradeGecko is designed to simplify the tasks of running a wholesale business and making it more social and engaging.
Fornova Enables You To Trawl And Aggregate The Deep Web
ForNova provides B2B turnkey content aggregation solutions for classified advertisers, e-commerce and other specific content verticals without the need for site-specific customizations.
Open Banking Is Becoming The Norm In The Banking Industry: Here’s What You Need...
Banking that used to be tedious and costly is changing thanks, in part, to open banking. Open banking is changing the way we conduct business creating financial power and freedom for consumers.
Singapore To Get New Posterboy For Entrepreneurial Success?
The room was totally packed at the keynote presentation in BlogOUT! '09, but you can't truly be sure what the crowd was here for.
The Nübox Way To Computer Retail
Computer retail is big business in Singapore. That's what personal computer retail chain Newstead Technologies is counting on for its growth, especially with its new Apple-focused Nübox concept stores.
Fiverr.com Lets You Buy And Sell Services for Just US$5
Micha Kaufman and Shai Wininger, founders of e-commerce site Fiverr.com, believes that there can be an entire marketplace where people can purchase and sell services at the fixed price of US$5.
NakedWines.com Connects Winemakers And Wine Drinkers Via Crowdfunding
NakedWines.com uses crowdfunding to raise funds from a wine-loving public and channels that money towards a bunch of talented winemakers so that they can focus on making quality wines exclusively for funders.
Daily Deals Still A Big Deal In Asia; All Deals Asia Launches iPhone App
The daily deals industry may be taking somewhat of a beating to its reputation in recent times - stories of deals gone bad abound - but according to All Deals Asia, this space is still growing rapidly in Southeast Asia.
Shane Smith: Gonzo-Gunslinger
Teddy Hunt explores Canadian-American journalist and web entrepreneur Shane Smith’s style and technique for getting a story, as well as his push to reach a young audience.
JamiQ – Monitoring Social Media Across Languages
Just as social media has been growing and will continue to grow at an incredible rate for the foreseeable future, social media monitoring services are increasingly coming into demand. Enter JamiQ, the latest to provide such a service.
Prince Media Company, King Of Outdoor Advertising?
Philip Kafka hung up his racket at the age of 23 merely months into his professional tennis career to become an entrepreneur instead.
TheMobileGamer: Trying Games On The Go
Alvin Yap, CEO of Singapore consumer technology startup TheMobileGamer (TMG), admits that he has always been a dreamer. Having studied entrepreneurship as a business student in Singapore's Ngee Ann Polytechnic, he had always wanted to start and run his own business.
Interview with Ong Kok Choong of Hoiio
Contributing writer Caroline Yeung talks to Mr Ong Kok Choong, CEO and founder of Singapore-based Hoiio about its internet telephony and messaging solutions for both consumers and businesses, across all smartphone platforms
ArticleBuff – Crowdsourcing Your Writing
Andrew Elliot is a self-confessed serial entrepreneur and, he readily admits, one who has 'failed' often. But the founder of ArticleBuff - an online marketplace and resource site for writers - chooses to view those experiences positively.