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TeknoUp, A Gadget And Tech Resource In Indonesian, for Indonesians
Where can you read the latest gadget and tech news in Bahasa Indonesian? TeknoUp fills up that gap and is looking successful. Apparently, the gadget review site is specifically targeted at Indonesian tech lovers.
Is India A Good Place For Tech Entrepreneurs?
Technology in India is one of the most lucrative sectors, now and in the future. Without a doubt, India is home to a lot of startups, especially tech-based startups (e.g. Moodler, RockeTalk).
Taiwan’s Tech Start-ups And Culture
When we talked about Asia and Chinese Internet start-ups, we definitely cannot miss Taiwan. If you haven’t already known, renown tech brands like HTC, BenQ and Asus all originated from the country.
PriceArea Is A Price Comparison Search Engine
PriceArea.com is a price comparison start-up that helps Indonesians find and compare products better and faster.
Get Real Time Opinions On Opinionaided.com
New York-based Opinionaided (www.opinionaided.com) is a social application that lets you to use your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to get advice and opinions from others in real-time.
GroupPrice.com – Big Deals For Small Businesses
GroupPrice (www.groupprice.com) is a social commerce company that aims to help small business owners save time and money through group-buying of products and services.
Getting Roound.com Your Mobile Social Profiles
Singapore-based Roound is a mobile social profile management service, if you like, that combines your contacts database and social media information into a single online identity that can be shared online and on mobile devices.
Urbanesia is a Social City Directory in Indonesia
Urbanesia is a city directory start-up for Indonesians to find recommendations on what to do and where to go in Jakarta.
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.
Swap, Borrow Or Lend E-Books With EBookFling
eBookFling (www.ebookfling.com) is a startup that creates a virtual "e-book swap" that facilitates the direct lending of e-books between consumers using the lending features enabled by the Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook.
Poo-Pourri’s Sweet Solution To A Crappy Problem
The economy may be in the toilet, but Suzy Batiz, founder and CEO of Dallas-based Poo~Pourri, has bootstrapped and grown her company from a US$25,000 startup to a US$4 million enterprise in a little over three years.
A Timely Note From BlueBirdCards.com
26-year old Kyle Miller, the founder of online greeting cards company BlueBirdCards.com (www.bluebirdcards.com), says nothing ventured, nothing gained.
A Chat With Ben Federman of 1SaleADay.com
So you'd think that the online daily deals space is way too overcrowded - and you're probably right. So how does a site like New York-based 1SaleADay.com compete with the rest? We talk to Ben Federman, CEO of 1SaleADay.com.
Eegoes.com: An Answer To Social Networking Information Overload?
Boston, Massachusetts-based Eegoes (www.eegoes.com) is positioned as a social networking site that aims to provide a more user-friendly and more streamlined platform for social interaction, and one that is based around user interests.
Buy And Sell Used Video Games On Gamestaq.com
New York-based Gamestaq (www.gamestaq.com) is an online peer-to-peer marketplace for buyers and sellers of video games.
RIAH – Hair Today, Help Tomorrow
Melbourne, Australia-based architect Sue Lee Seng may spend her formal hours designing buildings, but she puts some of her free time into RIAH, her hairdressing "business" that contributes 10 percent of revenue towards the non-profit organization Operation Stitches.
Women Entrepreneurs Can Look Awesome And Run Businesses Too
Entrepreneur Tiffany Fluhme, CEO of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based direct sales skincare and cosmetics company Fluhme, says that women don't have to deny themselves to help balance the checkbook.
GrooveZoo To Connect Musicians; Enable Collaborations
Santa Cruz, California-based GrooveZoo (www.groovezoo.com) aims to connect songwriters, musicians, producers and other members of the music-making business by helping them share and collaborate on music projects.
Santa Monica Express – Growth In A Downturn
California-based Santa Monica Express was seeing a growth of 15 to 20 percent year-on-year up until 2008 when the economy tanked.
A Different Way to Browse Tweets With ReadEvery.com
ReadEvery (www.ReadyEvery.com) is an interesting way to follow Twitter. ReadEvery lets you follow tweets from the people you follow on a single page and is a good way of finding interesting Twitter users that your immediate follow circle is following.
Aaron Leischke: Franchising His Way To Success
Aaron Leischke may only be 31 years old, but he is already the owner of three Cousins Subs franchises in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area.
Baking For Good With A Passion
New York-based Baking For Good is an online bakery with a social mission - it is based around the idea of a bake sale, selling fresh all-natural baked goods such as brownies, cookies and other treats and donating 15 percent of every purchase to a non-profit or community fundraiser of the customer's choice
Enter The Momtrepreneurs
When moms get together in a group, you sometimes get a Tupperware party. What happens when moms who happens to be entrepreneurs get together? You get a Momtrepreneur Exchange.
Tischen – Employment For All
Founded in July 2010, New York-based Tischen (www.tischen.com) is an online directory where people set up a personal webpage to showcase their skills and experience with the hope of finding a job. The site has an extremely lofty goal - to rid the world of unemployment.
Yoursphere – Safe Online Spheres Of Influence For Kids
Yoursphere is an online social network that is centred around safe and fun rewards-based interactive content and activities for children and young people up to the age of 18, with features dedicated to guarding youth privacy and safety.
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.
IngBoo Likes To Share
Sunnyvale, California-based startup IngBoo aims to change social sharing as we know it. Its idea revolves around social plugins that allows web publishers to syndicate, connect and share content, based on trusted recommendations, via search, tags and feeds.
Convenient Dating With eSynchrony
Contributing writer Ho Sim Yee chats with co-founder of Singapore-based Lunch Actually, Violet Lim, to find out more about eSynchrony, its latest effort in bringing singles together.
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.
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.