If You’re Looking For A Job Right Now, Kickstart A Career In This Growing...
When one thinks of ‘healthcare’, images of doctors and nurses in their distinctive white garb come to mind. What about ‘HealthTech’? You might think that there is no relation between the healthcare and...
View ArticleThis S’pore Startup Banks On The Sharing Economy – Lets You Rent Yachts For...
Staycations have now become a go-to weekend activity for couples, friends, and families in Singapore. But after having stayed at the same kinds of Instagram-worn hotels and cookie-cutter chalets for so...
View ArticleThis Ah Beng Started Cooking Since 10 – Now Runs A Hawker Stall Serving...
He says whatever comes to mind, doesn’t play by the rules, and started getting tattoos since he was 15. This is how Jason Chua says he gained the name, Beng. Being a boy who wasn’t good at studying in...
View Article4 Reasons Why Some M’sian Businesses Have Not Reduced Prices Even After 0% GST
Since the zero-rating of GST that became effective on June 1, many instances of price inconsistencies have been reported by Malaysian netizens on social media. Despite the expectations for prices to...
View ArticleMeet The Team That Put A Boeing 737 In The Heart Of KL And Turned It Into A...
2Spicy Entertainment is the company behind Plane In The City and Dinner In The Sky. They started off as a small events company that focused on concerts, but pivoted after the FMFA incidents. Back in...
View ArticleThis Startup Organizes Mystery Road Trips So You Can Explore Underrated...
Albeit born in the Philippines, Giancarlo Gallegos spent most of his school years in New Zealand. But the deep-rooted love for his home country has led him back to the Philippines, and he wants to...
View ArticleInterview With Bigo: How A Chinese Live-Streaming Service Successfully...
After the ups and downs, live-streaming products take the spotlight once again. Currently, the leading live-streaming platforms such as Huya, Douyu TV, Huajiao Live Video, Inke, etc. have announced...
View ArticleInspired By Their Parents’ Love, 3 Brothers Started Up A Diamond Shop In...
In Snow White, the poison apple symbolises evil and gullibility. In Cinderella, the glass slippers sort of represent the truth, and how truth always prevails. And in Beauty And The Beast, the enchanted...
View Article4 Ramadhan Gift Boxes In M’sia, For The Last-Minute Shopper
A few things come to mind when you say the word Ramadhan: fasting from dawn to dusk, Bazaar Ramadhan, new clothes for raya, little envelopes for duit raya for children, and a plethora of other things....
View ArticleHow This “News” Site Made Fun Of Najib & BN Since 2012 And Never Even Got...
The Tapir Times is a parody news and satire website founded by an anonymous group of friends. Started in 2012 as Fake Malaysia News, The Tapir Times currently crafts news stories that poke fun of the...
View ArticleDear VC, We Want Funding But We Don’t Plan To Monetise. What Can We Do?
Welcome to Dear VC, a new segment on Vulcan Post where seasoned venture capitalists to answer questions that relate to startups, funding, and venture capitalism posed by our readers. If you have a...
View ArticleAttention oBike Users – Your $49 Deposit May Have Been “Secretly Converted”...
A Reddit user posted a thread yesterday on the forum warning oBike users to check their account. Apparently, the Singapore bike-sharing company has been “secretly converting” the deposits in users’...
View ArticleOCBC And StarHub’s “Loyalty Alliance” Will Let You Earn Points From Staycays,...
OCBC Bank and StarHub announced on 7 June that they are developing a “loyalty alliance” that will let consumers consolidate and redeem loyalty rewards and air miles across a group of partnering...
View ArticleSkype’s Billionaire Owner & This Startup Team Up To Loan $$$ To Filipinos...
Many Filipinos are already familiar with tycoon John Gokongwei, Jr: one of the richest men in the Philippines, and serial entrepreneur that has a hand in Skype Inc., Cebu Pacific Airlines, a food and...
View ArticleThe ‘Honestbee Of Organic Food’ Brings Their Concept Offline With S’pore’s...
The last time we caught up with the honestbee of organic food, Sproutfore, we learnt that they were launching their marketplace platform for farmers to connect with local consumers using QR codes and...
View ArticleGrabPay Is Now Live In M’sia—Here’s All You Need To Know To Get Started
Grab’s new cashless payment service GrabPay has been rolled out in Malaysia, although without an official announcement by Grab themselves. The feature is now usable through the official Grab app, and...
View ArticleThis Event Lets You Score Up To $1,500 Cash Prizes – Just By Playing FIFA 18
Mobile marketplace Carousell has changed the way we buy and sell things now. They also grew from being a platform for trading of goods and money, to becoming an all-rounded marketplace. In recent...
View ArticleoBike Blames “Technical Lapse” For SVIP Conversion Issue – Reportedly...
Last Friday, we wrote an article about Singapore bike-sharing company oBike that has been “secretly converting” the deposits in users’ idle accounts into its 1095-day Super VIP (SVIP) membership...
View ArticleShe Started By Selling Cakes In A Studio Apartment, Now Owns 2 “Rival” Cafés...
Jaslyn started her career in her student days, selling baked goods out of a tiny studio apartment in London. This led her to finally opening her own café in Bangsar in 2014, where she had to hustle...
View ArticleOld Chang Kee: From Kopitiam Stall To Popular Chain With Over 70 Stores In...
Filling our stomachs and hearts with hot curry puffs and fried snacks for as long as we can remember, beloved local brand Old Chang Kee has been all the talk lately. On 4 June, Singaporeans working or...
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