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Intuit INC. Acquired Pioneer Email Marketing Company Mailchimp for US$12 Billion
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Intuit INC. Acquired Pioneer Email Marketing Company Mailchimp for US$12 Billion

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...

10 Saas Tools For Malaysian Startup Businesses
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10 Saas Tools For Malaysian Startup Businesses

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...

500 Durians is now 500 Southeast Asia
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500 Durians is now 500 Southeast Asia

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...

FINOLOGY TAKES THE THRONE IN SEEDSTARS WORLD COMPETITION
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FINOLOGY TAKES THE THRONE IN SEEDSTARS WORLD COMPETITION

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...

TraitQuest brings simplicity and flexibility to enterprise gamification
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TraitQuest brings simplicity and flexibility to enterprise gamification

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...

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