The life and death of Friendster
In 2005, if someone would have told me that the pioneer social networking site “Friendster” will get lost in the oblivion several years from then, I would hardly be able to believe it. Before Friendster,…
Carousell – Peer to Peer Selling App in Singapore and Hong Kong
Carousell is Singapore’s most successful and the fastest growing peer to peer Mobile based e-commerce Company. The Company was entirely founded and developed by a group of three undergraduate students of national university of Singapore….
Luxola – Online Cosmetics in Southeast Asia (Purchased by Sephora)
Luxola Luxola is a start-up online company based in Singapore that sells cosmetics. The founder, Alexis Horowitz-Burdick, and American living in Singapore, founded the company in 2011. After chatting with her girlfriends and constantly hearing…
What to consider when driving for Uber or Grab
In the continued battle for market dominance between Uber and Grab (MY) across SE Asia, Uber just announced that it has lowered fares in Singapore by 15%. With a base price of $3, lower than…
aCommerce – SouthEast Asia’s Logistics Leader
Ecommerce is booming across Asia. Although companies like Amazon have yet to change day to day lives of those in the region, homegrown companies like Lazada, Tokopedia and Blinda are beginning to change the shopping…
Iflix – The Netflix of Asia?
Everyone is fond of Television. It is a technology that fundamentally…
Snaptee – Make Your Own T-Shirts
Snaptee: Snaptee is a mobile software that lets users produce custom T-shirts from pictures on smartphones. In just a few easy steps, users can design personal T-shirts through the app by using a variety of…
Hotel Quickly – Asia’s Hotel Tonight
HotelQuickly is a mobile based application which enables users to find and book last minute hotels online at very discounted rates. The Company was founded in December 15th, 2012 and incorporated but was officially launched…
Race to the Bottom – Grab’s Incentives Against Uber
All across SouthEast Asia, Grab, (formerly known as GrabTaxi or MyTeksi), the homegrown taxi booking company based in Malaysia, is in a fierce battle for market share against the American company Uber. At its…
Amazon Versus Lazada
25 years ago it would have been difficult to imagine such a world. While certainly there was the impression that technology would move forward, few probably could have imagined the changes the internet would bring…