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Starting Up Asia

Based in Singapore, Victoria Ho profiles startups in the country and across the Asian region, and highlights key issues driving the local communities.

Victoria Ho

Victoria Ho is a tech journalist based in Singapore, whose writing has appeared in publications such as ZDNet, TechCrunch, and The Business Times. When she's not obsessing about IT, you can find her tinkering with music and daydreaming about which guitar to buy next.

Latest Posts

IdeaSpace applications closing soon for SEA startups

Submissions for IdeaSpace's 2014 startup competition in the Philippines is open to all Southeast Asian startups, and closes on January 15.

December 15, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Startups

Foreign startups in Silicon Valley still a rarity

Asian programmers may be a common sight in Silicon Valley, but foreign entrepreneurs are practically a rarity, says Valley-based accelerator.

December 5, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Startups

TV-recording device gets on Indiegogo to launch in Singapore

Belgian firm Right Brain Interface is raising funds to acquire more channels for its cloud-based TV-recording platform Bhaalu, which is set to make its Asia debut in Singapore early 2014.

December 3, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Innovation

AnyPerk takes Japan's corporate perks SaaS model to US

Silicon Valley startup is growing 30 percent each year, offering a cloud-based platform to manage corporate discounts--a concept new to the U.S. but mature in Japan, says co-founder Taro Fukuyama.

November 25, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Cloud

Singapore's Clozette comes out with $3M Series B

Singapore-based fashion social network secures another US$3 million in Series B funding, beefing up its current total to US$6.06 million, which it plans to use to expand across Southeast Asia.

November 24, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Startups

Rocket's Carmudi rides on Myanmar's Internet growth potential

Rocket Internet's car classifieds site is firmly camped in Myanmar, despite it having one of the world's lowest Internet penetration rates.

November 20, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Startups

Duriana launches, looks almost identical to Carousell

Backed by former Rocket Internet staffers, marketplace app Duriana launches with its app and site looking almost identical to fellow Singapore-based startup, Carousell.

November 18, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Developer

More SEA shoppers comparing prices via mobile

Data from price-checking site PricePanda shows serious shopping is happening on mobile devices across Southeast Asia--45 percent in Indonesia, 38 percent in Singapore, and 30 percent in the Philippines. These figures are significant because price-checking is typically done at home, on the desktop.

November 17, 2013 by Victoria Ho in E-Commerce

Ex-Googlers launch data analytics startup in Singapore

Even before officially launching, the startup is already in the black. The three co-founders behind Sparkline hope their Google pedigree will attract new customers. Its product models different situations to show "what if" situations.

November 14, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Startups

SingTel tries out Nara tech in HungryGoWhere Malaysia first

The Nara recommendation engine is now live for HungryGoWhere, starting with Malaysia, which will be among the first sites under SingTel featuring its analytics technology.

November 7, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Big Data

Deezer unveils new features to pull in more subscribers

The music-streaming service now has 5 million paying customers, bringing it closer to Spotify's 6 million. New features include a reworked algorithm, and curation by 50 music editors.

November 6, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Developer

Facebook certifies less than 10 percent of third-party devs

Want to be a third-party developer on Facebook? Prepare to duke it out with plenty of others.

October 30, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Developer

3D iPhones just the start of Nanoveu's technologies

A Singapore startup has figured out a way to mass produce nanoimprinted products, and it's starting to show this off by turning iPhones into 3D displays, and is eyeing security applications next.

October 28, 2013 by Victoria Ho in Startups