TurboTax maker Intuit Inc has acquired Mailchimp, an email marketing company, for US$12 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. Over a year ago, the two pioneers began discussing forming a partnership, which later evolved into talks about an acquisition. The acquisition of Atlanta-based Mailchimp, which runs a marketing platform for small and mid-market firms, makes it...
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In Malaysia, software as a service (SaaS) businesses is becoming increasingly popular. Customers benefit from Saas’s business models in a variety of ways. Unlike standalone software that must update manually, Saas software can be updated on a regular basis. If the corporation decides to do so, their customers’ software is updated over the internet. Like...
Khailee Ng today published a new post on his LinkedIn profile announcing the name change of 500 Durians to 500 Southeast Asia. Khailee wrote: “In our first seven years, we invested in over 250 early-stage companies including Bukalapak, Carousell, FinAccel, Carsome, Grab, and many others that now define tech entrepreneurship in the region.” Below you...
Grab a Singapore based e-hailing, food delivery and more is now gearing up to be listed on Nasdaq (GROTHAUS, 2021), prior to that this startup which was founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling managed to defeat and buy Uber Southeast Asia operation on 26th March 2018 (Mansuri, n.d.). Grab idea started...
After much awaited anticipation, Seedstars World Competition 2020/2021 has finally ended with Malaysian fintech startup Finology taking the throne as this year’s global winner with an additional USD500,000 equity investment. The private hosting, which was hosted by Seedstars, a Swiss-based private group with a mission to improve people’s lives towards emerging markets, and also The...
Everyone has the means to live comfortably, have a great retirement plan while sipping a cup of a favorite drink. And the best-trending way to do that is by investing. But, you have no idea and knowledge on how to invest smartly and it scares you. You might lose more than what you gain, you...
TraitQuest has been operating for close to 4 years in the gamification space. The internal team has been experimenting with the idea of introducing gamification to the average office workers. Throughout the initial years, the team’s focus was to improve performance via performance management and analytics. The first version of TraitQuest’s prototype version was used and maintained up...