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Zuckerberg to join TechCrunch Disrupt

Original post by Benny Evangelista via SFGate The all-star roster of Silicon Valley executives scheduled to appear at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF conference beginning Monday might get upstaged by one late addition: Mark Zuckerberg, making his first public appearance since Facebook’s IPO flop. The social network’s CEO may want to leave any sweat-inducing hoodies at home, since […]

Thailand should give wings to technology companies

Original post by Ville Kulmala via The Nation  At Echelon Singapore 2012, Asia’s biggest competition for start-up businesses, it was an unlikely winner – a small Thai company called Builk – who  took first prize, beating out 250 competitors from around the region, including from such tech-savvy countries as Japan,Taiwan and Singapore. The only start-up from […]

Is Google the most innovative tech company on the planet?

Original post by CHRISTOPHER JACKSON via TNW Innovation is often thought to be the life of the startup. The madcap entrepreneurs and fearless youngsters throwing themselves into changing the world, with faith and hope and a little craziness. The talk is of disrupting the industry and shaking things up. These are the people with nothing to […]

The rise of SMS marketing – expert offers start-up guidelines

Original post by Michelle Hammond via startupsmart Start-ups have been urged to consider text messages as a key marketing channel, after a report revealed 97% of text messages are opened – a far higher rate than email. Chetan Sharma, a US-based technology and strategy consultancy, conducted some research on the rise of the humble text message as […]