Food delivery site Foodpanda has been making headlines a lot recently. First with a $20 million financing round and then a rebrand in Vietnam . Today, Foodpanda has announced a merger with former rival Singapore Dine , though the terms of the deal haven’t been made public. The Rocket ...
We recently ran a guest post on the blogshop phenomenon in Singapore , and as Lucas highlighted in the article, payment is the most critical step which closes the entire shopping cycle. But at times it gets rather troublesome and tedious, since bank transfers were the only option avai...
Rocket Internet’s fashion e-store for Southeast Asia, Zalora , has just shipped its one millionth order. It’s a major milestone for the site, which operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The one millionth customer was Singaporean mum-to-be ...
Today Singapore-based Loan Garage , a startup that aims to help people get loans online, announced that it has launched its Indonesian platform KreditAja.com . It’s interesting to note that the expansion arrives only two months after Loan Garage made its full launch in Singapore. The ...
Swedish music streaming company Spotify recently stepped into Asia ; specifically Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. Spotify’s Sriram Krishnan, head of new markets and Asia-pacific at Spotify, explained to us that Asia was picked because piracy is high in this part of the world. Sad ...
Lucas Chua is a freelance consultant with extensive E-commerce experience in Singapore. When he was 16, he sold limited edition Nike sneakers on eBay. He has previously worked with several top blogshops for more than 2 years and interned at Zalora. Image credit: www.agneselle.com It i...
From the left – Daniel Armanto (CTO of Adskom) and Italo Gani (CEO of Adskom) It seems like the online advertising industry in Indonesia is definitely heating up. The fact of the matter is that Indonesia’s digital ad spending is still a lowly one percent compared to overall ad spendin...
Looking for applications made by Singaporeans? AppsInSg.com has it all. Created by Ryan Tan, the site showcases only made-in-Singapore apps. In a blog post , Ryan explained why he created the site: I realized people outside of development and entrepreneur circles are often unaware tha...
The AngelHack competition prides itself as the biggest hackathon in the world and will kick off this weekend in Los Angeles. And for friends in Asia, this might be your chance if you are looking to Silicon Valley for expansion, as AngelHack will be travelling to your cities, too. Ange...
We’ve been following the progress of Singapore-based Dropmysite pretty closely in the past year. In that time, the website and email cloud backup service has acquired a US rival and expanded into numerous countries. Today the startup has announced an investment from Dave McClure’s 500...
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Tencent’s social messaging application WeChat has announced today that its expansion plans have officially traveled down south to the shores of Singapore. It intends to acquire more users in Singapore with the launch of its first TV commercial airing today. The TV commercial (video ab...
After making fast progress from first launching its foodie-oriented photo app in May 2012, now Burpple has rolled out a user-submitted restaurant listings and reviews site in Singapore. It’s an interesting challenge to Yelp – which launched in the nation in September – by this local s...
Yes, we know: Startup Asia Singapore was a couple weeks ago, but it takes time to gather data, feedback, and visualize Startup Asia Singapore 2013 into the sweet looking infographic below designed by the good folks at Piktochart . Better late than never! So what kind of data have we c...
Networking equipment maker Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is celebrating 20 years of operating in Singapore with a huge new office that replaces its four previous Singaporean bases. It thereby brings all 1,000 employees in the nation under one roof, located at the UE Biz Hub near the airport. Af...
Nitrous.IO , Action.IO’s software development platform and key product, just got $1 million in seed funding from a handful of VC firms in Silicon Valley including Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Associates, CrunchFund, 500 Startups, TIBCO Software, and individuals like Eduardo Saver...
We mistakenly leaked last week that Spotify is set to launch in Singapore. So today’s launch by the Swedish music streaming giant into Singapore isn’t too much of a surprise. But, wait! There are a few more countries included in today’s launch — Hong Kong and Malaysia. This marks Spot...
Spotify is now available in Singapore ahead of a launch event later today. Some basic fiddling with the music streaming service’s geo-specific URLs reveals that spotify.com/sg-en is now live. Interestingly, Singaporean music fans only get the choice of two accounts: free (with ads) or...
SPRING Singapore has today announced that 15 startups have received the proof-of-concept and proof-of-value grants under its SPRING Singapore’s Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme (TECS ). The total value of the grants add up to S$6 million (US$4.85 million), encompassing a...
We have invited Hyungseok Dino Ha, founder of Memebox . The subscription e-commerce service is now the leader in terms of market share in this sector in Korea. Dino will be sharing his startup story at this event, and how he bootstrapped to $1 million annual revenue for Memebox. Parti...
Spotify is set to launch in Singapore, perhaps as soon as next week. The Swedish music streaming startup has just sent out invites for an April 16th event in Singapore, but no further details are available at present. This Singapore launch will mark Spotify’s debut in Asia. The premiu...
Here’s an app definitely not designed for me: a new social nightlife app called Qlubbr . Made by a Singapore startup who launched the app last week, it focuses on gigs, festivals, and clubs. It helps users discover nightlife events in Singapore, and should prove to be useful for barfl...
E-commerce marketplace site Qoo10 revealed that in 2012, its Singapore operations transacted US$73 million in sales. In Singapore, Qoo10 has a total of more than 900,000 members and 53,000 sellers. The online marketplace charges commission from about six to twelve percent commission o...
Ken Lee from LotsofButtons.com (in red T-shirt) picks up the winner’s check. Our Startup Arena Singapore 2013 event has just wrapped up. That giant check needs a new home, so our four esteemed judges – Andrew Collins, Jeffrey Paine, Nobuaki Kitagawa, and Yasuhiko Yurimoto – have decid...
Tell My Friends recently at SXSW. Singapore-based Tell My Friends is one of the more established young tech companies on our newest Startup Asia roster having been in beta for nearly a year. It’s a social music store for legal MP3s where users can actual earn money from referral sales...
It must be strange for the founders of Trii.be , a Singapore-based startup focused on feedback, to be themselves the recipients of some critical commentary today at Startup Asia Singapore 2013 . Trii.be is what co-founder Chun Kiat Chua describes as a ‘smart feedback’ channel, one tha...
It’s not too often that an acquisition happens around here – even less so do we see a startup snap up a larger rival. But that’s what happened today. The Singapore team behind BillPin , the app that helps friends split bills and keep track of group expenses and friendly lending, has a...
Perk by Kate is Singapore’s representative lingerie e-commerce site. We have seen similar lingerie vertical e-commerce sites in Vietnam , India , Indonesia , and China , so it’s about time one appeared in Singapore! Perk was founded in February 2011, selling lingerie imported from U.S...
Good deal for the industry. A genuine profit making site sold for a good multiple. Wonder how SPH will integrate them. And to help readers analyze the deal … Max of $60M means there is a progressive payment tied to some KPI over the next 1,2,3 years. Usually 2. Also, there are 5 indiv...
Founded by Shobhit Datta, Kevin Vo, Deborah Wee, and Danny Tan, HipVan is a design-focused e-commerce site in Singapore that went live today. Similar to Fab.com, the idea is to bring great design products to buyers. Besides DSYR in Malaysia , I haven’t had the chance to check out too ...
Scoop , the e-reader newsstand app, continues to expand its publisher partnerships in India, Singapore, and the Philippines. Willson Cuaca, the CEO of Apps Foundry which makes the Scoop app, announced this morning that the company has partnered with India Today Group, SPH Magazine, an...
