Just arrived at the London Heathrow Airport yesterday's morning and glad to see that the city's weather is quite good. The weather is mild, around 13°C - 15°C -- howdy, I'm ready with a light jacket and an umbrella! Arrived at The Tower Guoman Hotel, St Katharine's Way -- yeah, near Tower Bridge! -- at ...
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Facebook bans Google+ ad
At the end of the day, business is business. Please keep it in mind. Michael Lee Johnson writes: LOL: I recently ran a Google+ advertisement on Facebook that got all of my campaigns suspended. - Great. The message from Failbook said the following: Your account has been disabled. All of your adverts have been stopped and should not be ...
Dear startups: The honeymoon has ended!
A bunch of venture capital and incubator companies have been launched in Indonesia with one single message: they wanted to help the country's startups ecosystem grows. But looks like the mission is not that easy. Some investors guys told me that not easy for them to find startups with strong ideas and good co-founders in ...
The newsmaker of the day: Yahoo!
Turns out today's tech news is mostly discussing about Yahoo: from the "substantive and encouraging progress" on Alibaba's ownership; a possible acquisition of the popular online video service Hulu; and even rumor on a possible replacement of Carol Bartz, the CEO. A plenty of things to do, since the Sunnyvale-based company is expected to have ...
Starting a new day as a consultant for startups
TODAY IS A NEW DAY FOR ME. Landed in Singapore yesterday, I am officially starting my new gigs as one of post my Yahoo era's adventures: helping some tech startup companies as a consultant. Basically, these startups need my expertise on how to address Indonesian market. I wrote this last month: Basically, I want to return back ...
Indonesia, a heaven to start a business?
A recent survey conducted by BBC suggests that Indonesia is the best place for entrepreneurs to start a business. That's really a good news. Yes we see many tech startup companies, for instances, are coming and started to grow. Let's maintain this momentum and tell the world that Indonesia is indeed one of the most sexiest emerging ...
Social game giant Zynga close to IPO filing. LinkedIn Euphoria?
The creator of Farmville, Cityville and Mafia Wars, Zynga, is now told to be ready to file for an initial public offering in the next two weeks, according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Following of the IPO of business networking site LinkedIn and Russian search giant Yandex, Wall Street also expects Groupon and Facebook to ...
How to find talents for your startup
If you plan to build a startup, the first thing you should do is to find talents for your team. It can speed up your new company's success or impress investors and partners to join. "Start an advisory board," Matt Mickiewicz suggests. “The best way to get experts involved in your business is to build ...
Happy 20th birthday, Linux!
Linux turns 20 this month. The open system has been offering another option and opportunities to the world. In case you've been living under a rock for the last two decades, Linux is part of pretty much every technology ecosystem--mobile (Android), Web (Google), consumer (TiVo), and powers a huge amount of the Internet itself. And ...
Facebook to launch its Groupon rival
Facebook is about to launch another new product -- a newest competitor for Groupon, Living Social and the 40 other daily deals sites. However it could be a tough effort for the largest social network service, according to Guardian. Rather than reading and binning a daily deals email from a service you've signed up to that ...
Indonesia’s expense tracker services: Ngaturduit, Trackpense, Amplop.in
No matter how hard you try, handling a budget is a hassle. If your existing and traditional method to track expenses doesn't work, you can try another approach instead. Developed by Indonesian developers, these mobile and Web services basically help you to calculate and analyze your expenses and plan your future spending. However these three ...
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24 local Groupons in Indonesia [and counting]!
Groupon ("group coupon") is one of a few of game changers in this decade. This service is a deal-of-the-day website and has served 35 million registered users in more than 565 cities around the world. "Groupon brings buyers and sellers together in a fun and collaborative way that offers the consumer an unbeatable deal, and ...
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