If you happened to be a start-up founder in Asia, we invite you to share your idea and vision with us. As part of our vision to cover all-things-Asian-tech, we are open to [...] Related posts: The Asian Tech Weekly Digest Chinese New Year snatched the limelight last week. To celebrate… 16 Asian Tech Stories [...] Read more »
Who are the Entrepreneurs? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Here are some interesting statistics on entrepreneurs. According to Contactme, 40 is the average age for startup founders. 70% of them have worked at other companies before starting up. Most entrepreneurs have a bachelor degree, coming from the middle class family, married and is most likely the first child. Getting access to capital is the greatest [...] Read more »
Amazon to Acquire Diapers.com for $540 Million [REPORT]
Amazon will soon announce that it has acquired Quidsi, the owners of e-commerce websites Diapers.com and Soap.com, for a whopping $540 million in cash. According to Fortune, Quidsi’s co-founders, Marc Lore and Vinnie Bharara, have agreed to stick around and… Read more »
10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google
“Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” So began the “letter from the founders” penned by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the… Read more »
YouTube’s First Video Uploaded Five Years Ago Today
Although YouTube’s birthday is officially February 14, 2005, the first video was actually uploaded to the site exactly five years ago, on April 23, 2005. The video is entitled “Me at the zoo.” It was shot by Yakov Lapitsky and it’s only 19 seconds long, showing one of YouTube’s founders, Jawed Karim, at the San [...] Read more »