PChome, Yahoo and AliPay eyes Taiwan’s online payment market; who will win?
Online shopping is nothing new to Taiwanese. According to a market research report just released earlier on January 13, Taiwanese shop an average of 2.37 times online per month. The research also...
View ArticleFashion brands and blogshop owners take note: Zalora’s new Marketplace wants...
ZALORA, one of Asia’s fastest growing e commerce site, has announced that it will be launching ZALORA Marketplace in the first half of this year. ZALORA Marketplace will allow vendors from all over...
View ArticleSingapore’s food magazine Appetite shuts down, suffers from decline in print
Appetite Magazine, one of Singapore’s main food magazine, has just announced that it will be discontinuing its print magazine. The January issue, will be its final issue: Appetite Final Issue The...
View ArticleYou are missing out if you do not watch these movies in 2014
If you are an international movie buff like most of my friends, you’ll definitely love a good list of the must-watch movies this 2014. The featured image originated from popular site 9gag. While dates...
View ArticleIs the Malaysia government trying to censor the kangkung story?
One of the biggest buzz among Malaysian netizens now is the #kangkung topic, which is trending on Twitter in Malaysia. It all started when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak made a comment...
View ArticleBuy and sell on these mobile apps for Chinese New Year 2014
With the Chinese New Year 2014 coming around the corner, there are bound to be items that you want to dispose of during your spring cleaning, making room for new ones. If you are looking for a simple...
View ArticleMonstaBBQ makes ordering BBQ food so easy you would use it over and over again
Most of us have been to or have organized a BBQ gathering before. Remember the time where you had to head down to supermarket to get all your ingredients and lug all the items back to the BBQ pit? What...
View ArticleIf anybody was curious why banking in Singapore is such a terrible experience
Here’s why: Image Credit: Vinnie Lauria You’ve seen it right: if you are using Internet Explorer, you can “easily” log into OCBC’s online banking. Internet Explorer? When was the last time you saw...
View Article[Epic] Groupon ad placement fail
An advertisement by popular group buying site Groupon back in the 2011 recently resurfaced: Ad placement fail? Editor’s note: To be fair to Groupon, the advertisement was most likely distributed via an...
View ArticleLooking to access NUS IVLE on the go? Here are some apps you can check out
If you are studying in the National University of Singapore (NUS), chances are you would know what IVLE is. For those who are not affiliated with NUS, Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) is...
View ArticleGAP launches first Pop-up Store in Taipei; only open for 30 days!
If you stroll along the Taiwan XinYi district, you would probably bump into the small cubic house shown above, GAP’s first pop-up store in Taiwan. Located right in front of the trendy department store...
View ArticleNUS startup Ladibird might be the future of camera; represented Singapore at CES
One of the biggest conference in consumer electronics is CES, a global consumer technology tradeshow that takes place every January in Las Vegas, Nevada. Numerous successful products that have debuted...
View ArticleWatch this CEO hand his business to competitors in a briefcase – and Win
Saddleback Leather. It’s a company that most of us probably haven’t heard of — until now. Thanks to a very smart (and bold) move by its strangely likeable CEO. Dave Munson recorded and released a...
View Article[Impressive] Dating app Paktor hooks up 250,000 singles in just 2 weeks
Singapore based dating app Paktor, has just shared that during the first two weeks of 2014, they have matched a total of a quarter of a million people on its app. Its newsletter read: A record QUARTER...
View ArticleSingapore’s Quit Pro app has helped 130,000 smokers quit, know anyone else?
It’s 3 weeks into the new year, half of your new year resolutions should have been broken by now. Curious to find out what are the top new year resolutions in Singapore, I went around around asking...
View ArticleWhen was the last time you said “I love you” to your parents?
It is common knowledge that Chinese have this reserved culture and normally do not openly say “I love you” to their parents. Recognizing this, Beijing’s electronics retailers GOME and its PR agency JWT...
View ArticleWant to trade Bitcoins in Singapore? Check out itBit
Bitcoin: the new online currency (cryptocurrency to be exact) everyone is talking about. What exactly is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency which uses cryptography...
View ArticleJaded by throngs of irrelevant posts? Feecha might just be the solution you need
Becoming all too aware of the crazy amount of content being created by people around you in recent years? Apparently companies like Feedly and Flipboard have too — and have created huge businesses...
View ArticleSPH relaunches 4 year old SoShiok food app, might spell doom for other...
Singapore’s main Engish Daily The Straits Times, has just relaunched their 4 year old SoShiok app. First launched back in February 2010, SoShiok is a simple app (iOS for now) that allows you to keep...
View ArticleDefying gravity and depicting changes with photography
Technology has brought convenience to all of us. And little surprises too. Although we have yet to find a way to defy gravity here on earth, photographers like Li Wei are already painting this...
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