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Berlin startup scene gets nod from Google

15 November, 2012

Original post by FRANK JORDANS via The Seattle Times Berlin’s budding Internet entrepreneurs received the closest thing to an industry endorsement Tuesday, with a (EURO)1 million ($1.3 million) investment from Google Inc. for a new `hub’ where startups can work, play and meet investors. Berlin’s budding Internet entrepreneurs received the closest thing to an industry endorsement Tuesday, […]

Go Daddy Goes Mobile: Domain Hosting Giant Bumps Up Its Business Services With Mobile Website Builder And Mobile Commerce Option

15 November, 2012

Original post by INGRID LUNDEN via TC Go Daddy has for a while been building out its domain registering and hosting business into business services to create new revenue streams to compete against the likes of Google and Amazon in serving the small/medium business sector, and today that strategy took a mobile turn, with the launch of […]

One Statistic That Should Convince Every Small Business To Get On Instagram

15 November, 2012

Original post by Max Nisen via BusinessInsider Even with a relatively small number of followers, Instagram can create a big impact for businesses. That’s what SumAll, a New York-based data analytics startup, found when they added the ability to track data from Instagram to their existing suite of social media and sales data tools for small businesses. Though they’ve only […]

Singapore’s ACE starts USD12.3M entrepreneurship education program for schools

15 November, 2012

Original post by Terence LEE via Sge ACE, a private-public organization promoting entrepreneurship in Singapore, has unveiled recommendations for a structured entrepreneurial education program in schools. It will be implemented in secondary schools, junior colleges, polytechnics, and Institute of Technical Education (ITEs) colleges. Broadly speaking, the new program, which will cost the government SGD15M (USD12.3M), combines theory […]

Samwers’ Online Shopping Mall Lazada Gets $40M From Shareholder Kinnevik To Push The Amazon Model In Asia

15 November, 2012

Original post by INGRID LUNDEN via TC Amazon’s global march has yet to take it into emerging markets like Vietnam and Malaysia, so the Samwer brothers have smelled an opportunity to build out their own version in the absence of Amazon itself. Lazada, an Asia-focused “online shopping mall” that has come out of the bothers’ German incubator Rocket Internet, is […]