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9 Free Webinars For Entrepreneurs To Watch Out For: Week of May 11

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Amid quarantines and social isolation, attend these free webinars to make the most out of your time at home With the implementation of social distancing and movement restrictions across the world to combat COVID-19, most offline events are now being organized in cyberspace. Don’t let social isolation and lockdowns keep you away from learning. Here […]

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Amid quarantines and social isolation, attend these free webinars to make the most out of your time at home With the implementation of social distancing and movement restrictions across the world to combat COVID-19, most offline events are now being organized in cyberspace. Don’t let social isolation and lockdowns keep you away from learning. Here

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contact-tracing

Does App-Based Contact Tracing Really Work?

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Asia Pacific countries illustrate what it takes for app-based contact tracing to make a difference Authorities, organizations, and innovators across the world are trying to whip out solutions in order to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest is a specific kind of app technology. A few factoids and conversations have been

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Asia Pacific countries illustrate what it takes for app-based contact tracing to make a difference Authorities, organizations, and innovators across the world are trying to whip out solutions in order to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest is a specific kind of app technology. A few factoids and conversations have been

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video conferencing

10 Tips For A Seamless Video Conferencing Experience

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Following these simple tips can ensure a smoother video conferencing experience while boosting your meeting’s productivity, effectiveness and efficiency With social distancing and travel restrictions being imposed throughout the world to combat the global pandemic, virtual meetings and video collaborations have quickly emerged as a key to remote working. In fact, video conferencing has come

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Following these simple tips can ensure a smoother video conferencing experience while boosting your meeting’s productivity, effectiveness and efficiency With social distancing and travel restrictions being imposed throughout the world to combat the global pandemic, virtual meetings and video collaborations have quickly emerged as a key to remote working. In fact, video conferencing has come

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Providing Solutions to Frontliners: Malaysians Place First and Third in Forkwell.io Online Coronavirus Hackathon

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KUALA LUMPUR, 4th May 2020- In March 2020, Forkwell.io a tech hiring platform created under Grooves, hosted an online hackathon to help find solutions using technology to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This competition saw participation from teams of data scientists and software developers from around the world. The top three teams, with a Malaysian team

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KUALA LUMPUR, 4th May 2020- In March 2020, Forkwell.io a tech hiring platform created under Grooves, hosted an online hackathon to help find solutions using technology to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This competition saw participation from teams of data scientists and software developers from around the world. The top three teams, with a Malaysian team

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7 Online Conferences To Look Out For

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If you can’t go to the conference, the conference will come to you. The novel coronavirus outbreak has given a new, implied meaning to the term ‘virtual world’. It is a world where people are connected via Zoom calls and online events, where physical distances have expanded and digital ones have shrunk. 2020 is truly

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If you can’t go to the conference, the conference will come to you. The novel coronavirus outbreak has given a new, implied meaning to the term ‘virtual world’. It is a world where people are connected via Zoom calls and online events, where physical distances have expanded and digital ones have shrunk. 2020 is truly

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fundraising

6 Fundraising Tips for the COVID-19 Economic Slowdown

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Key takeaways from Innovate Finance’s webinar ‘How to Fundraise in Uncertain Times’ Fundraising is challenging for any startup even under normal economic conditions. This is even more true now, with a global pandemic situation that has led to lockdowns and triggered one of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Last week, Innovate Finance

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Key takeaways from Innovate Finance’s webinar ‘How to Fundraise in Uncertain Times’ Fundraising is challenging for any startup even under normal economic conditions. This is even more true now, with a global pandemic situation that has led to lockdowns and triggered one of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Last week, Innovate Finance

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digital assets

Asia a Frontrunner in Digital Assets, says HK Fintech Association Chairman

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Understanding HK’s digital assets regulatory framework, challenges in crypto fundraising, and the impact of COVID-19 on the crypto industry On April 28, BrightTALK hosted ‘Digital Assets, Regulations and Opportunities in Hong Kong and Asia,’ the second-most attended webinar organized by Innovate Finance, an independent not-for-profit industry body representing the UK’s global fintech community. The webinar

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Understanding HK’s digital assets regulatory framework, challenges in crypto fundraising, and the impact of COVID-19 on the crypto industry On April 28, BrightTALK hosted ‘Digital Assets, Regulations and Opportunities in Hong Kong and Asia,’ the second-most attended webinar organized by Innovate Finance, an independent not-for-profit industry body representing the UK’s global fintech community. The webinar

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hong kong

Hong Kong: The Post Pandemic Gateway to China and Southeast Asia

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By Minesh Pore and James Kwan A window of business and trade opportunity has opened up for the region. Hong Kong has long been stylized as the connective membrane between China and the rest of Southeast Asia. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, the region is confronted with unique opportunities that it can capitalize on.

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By Minesh Pore and James Kwan A window of business and trade opportunity has opened up for the region. Hong Kong has long been stylized as the connective membrane between China and the rest of Southeast Asia. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, the region is confronted with unique opportunities that it can capitalize on.

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B2B Ecommerce Unicorn Udaan Lays Off At Least 3,000 Contractual Employees

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Udaan has offered one month’s gross salary and three months of group medical insurance as compensation Bengaluru-based Business-to-Business (B2B) ecommerce unicorn Udaan has laid off an estimated 10%-15% of its contractual staff (approximately 3,000-3,500 contract-based employees), through emails sent by Udaan’s consulting firms on April 24. According to several employees who took to Twitter to

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Udaan has offered one month’s gross salary and three months of group medical insurance as compensation Bengaluru-based Business-to-Business (B2B) ecommerce unicorn Udaan has laid off an estimated 10%-15% of its contractual staff (approximately 3,000-3,500 contract-based employees), through emails sent by Udaan’s consulting firms on April 24. According to several employees who took to Twitter to

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Funding In Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Is Moving from the U.S. To China

Funding In Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Is Moving from the U.S. To China

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In 2019, cryptocurrency companies raised US$2.3 billion, while blockchain companies raised US$434 million Research company CB Insights, which tracks private companies, investments and acquisitions, released The Blockchain Report 2020 in late March, reviewing the blockchain and cryptocurrency landscape in 2019 and providing an outlook for 2020 given the spread of COVID-19. According to the report,

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In 2019, cryptocurrency companies raised US$2.3 billion, while blockchain companies raised US$434 million Research company CB Insights, which tracks private companies, investments and acquisitions, released The Blockchain Report 2020 in late March, reviewing the blockchain and cryptocurrency landscape in 2019 and providing an outlook for 2020 given the spread of COVID-19. According to the report,

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Working in a COVID-19 World

Working in a COVID-19 World

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By David Wong Booqed survey finds demand for flexible workspace on the rise This week, we had an inquiry for a company seeking to urgently relocate its call center to an alternative location as part of its COVID-19 contingency plans. The question was similar to many we have received over the past two months and

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By David Wong Booqed survey finds demand for flexible workspace on the rise This week, we had an inquiry for a company seeking to urgently relocate its call center to an alternative location as part of its COVID-19 contingency plans. The question was similar to many we have received over the past two months and

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Healthtech Acquisitions Bid Against COVID-19

Healthtech Acquisitions Bid Against COVID-19

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The world is waiting for a silver bullet to counter COVID-19 As the whole world was bringing in the New Year on 31 December 2019, doctors in Wuhan, China were treating the first known cases of pneumonia caused by an unknown parasite. These were COVID-19’s first strikes, heralding the onset of the novel coronavirus’ global

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The world is waiting for a silver bullet to counter COVID-19 As the whole world was bringing in the New Year on 31 December 2019, doctors in Wuhan, China were treating the first known cases of pneumonia caused by an unknown parasite. These were COVID-19’s first strikes, heralding the onset of the novel coronavirus’ global

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