GIC invests in 2-year-old Beijing smartphone start-up
Caixin Online- 7 Sep, 2012 (Beijing) — Two-year-old Beijing-based smartphone maker Xiaomi Mobile Internet Co. received investment of US$216 million on June 23 from international investors, the third round financing it has completed. At the time, the company's estimated value was US$4 billion, Xiaomi's chief executive officer...
A foreigner reflects on Singapore
The Daily Beast- Dec 17, 2012 I grew up in Hong Kong in the ’70s, and though I traveled in the region, Singapore was not a possible destination. My father, T.J.S. George, was the founding editor of Asiaweek, a Hong Kong–based newsmagazine. He wrote the first critical study of Singapore’s brilliant and authoritarian prime...
Failure to launch: Singapore start-ups struggle to woo investors
Reuters- Dec 20, 2012 Singapore's decade-long push to become a hotbed for entrepreneurs is stuck at stage one. The city-state of 5.3 million people ranks No. 1 in the world in ease of doing business and fourth in starting one, according to a World Bank study. It offers low taxes, easy-to-obtain seed money to start a business,...
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