BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS STRATEGY Why Entrepreneurs Are Settling in Bali Bali, with its tropical climate, laid-back lifestyle, beaches, jungles and cheap beer, has long been a holiday-maker’s paradise. The ‘Island of the Gods’, a province of Indonesia, is a popular playground and place of reflection for Australian, Asian and, since Julia Roberts had a mid-life crisis on its shores in Eat Pray Love, American travelers. […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Andrea Loubier, CEO of Mailbird Andrea Loubier set up Mailbird – the beautiful and simple way to unify all your inboxes from email, messengers and productivity apps into one modern app. What’s your story? I started my professional career in a market research firm straight after college. I was working with huge multi-million dollar clients. After 6 years I left […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS Mailbird Is On a TV Show & We Need Your Help! I’m super happy to announce that Mailbird is among the 8 finalists for Channel News Asia’s (Singapore) show called ‘Start Up’. The first three episodes has already aired and you can watch them by clicking below. Where We Need Your Help? As you know Mailbird 2.0 is due to come out very soon, we want […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS Save your Email with Mailbird 2.0: The anti-depressant for your Inbox. The Indonesia based Tech Startup Mailbird announced today that it will be launching a rather unusual Crowd-Funding Campaign. The Crowd-Funding Campaign will be in cooperation with Channel News Asia, one of Asia’s biggest TV Channels! Mailbird will be using a platform specially designed for the purpose by the TV Channel effective February 9, 2015. […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
STARTUPS Mailbird is hunting for a C#, .NET Senior Backend Developer Mailbird is the best email client that brings a world of productivity to your inbox on a beautiful platform for email innovation. Mailbird is for Windows. The Mailbird team members are located in Bali, Bandung, India and Copenhagen. Application Deadline : 26 Oct 2014 Location: Bandung, Indonesia preferred, but location is flexible. Working with an international distributive […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS Why You Should Keep Emails Short “This could change your inbox forever.” To just say “keep your emails short” really isn’t specific enough for you to actually follow this piece of inbox management advice. Instead we invite you to the 5 sentence email challenge, meaning emails you compose or reply to should not be more than 5 sentences long. Free up […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS How To Improve Your Email Productivity Workplace productivity is a fundamental cause of concern for many corporations. According to a recent study carried out by research firm Basex; workplace interruptions cost US businesses over $650 billion a year. A primary cause of these interruptions, and subsequent lack of workplace productivity, is inadequate organisation of emails. In 2010, a study revealed that corporate users […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK INTERVIEWS Andrea Loubier, Co-founder of Mailbird Andrea Loubier has a firm background in market research, social science, project management, and content building for software. Through her work, she established solid business relations with major clients which include Proctor and Gamble, KAO brands, Ubisoft, General Electric, Kraft and more. Andrea has a real passion in communications networking and making people happy through […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK INTERVIEWS Andrea Loubier, Co-founder of Mailbird Andrea Loubier has a firm background in market research, social science, project management, and content building for software. Through her work, she established solid business relations with major clients which include Proctor and Gamble, KAO brands, Ubisoft, General Electric, Kraft and more. Andrea has a real passion in communications networking and making people happy through […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Future Of Spacesuits Key Takeaway: The Polaris Dawn mission, which includes the first spacewalk organized by a private company, has been delayed due to complications with the design and development of a suitable spacesuit. Moon suits are a key element of Nasa’s Artemis lunar programme that have yet to be delivered. Spacesuits are no longer expected to be […] Written by Yang Gao March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why We Will Never Master The Financial Markets Key Takeaways: Stock market enthusiasts often claim to predict financial market trends with great accuracy, but this is not possible due to the uncertainty and unpredictable nature of the environments in which we make daily decisions. Human cognition tends to favor a reductionist approach to information processing, sometimes called “tunneling,” which can lead to biased […] Written by Benoît Béchard March 8, 2024March 8, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Panda Diplomacy: What We Can Learn About Chinese Economics Key Takeaway: San Diego Zoo and China’s Wildlife Conservation Association signed a deal in February 2024 to return Chinese giant pandas to the US by the end of the summer. This move signifies a warming of relations between the US and China, as well as a bid by China to help repair its struggling economy. […] Written by Chee Meng Tan March 4, 2024March 4, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Is Insomnia Actually Bad? Key Takeaway: Insomnia, a major health issue, affects around a third of people, with women and older individuals more affected. Sleep deprivation can lead to increased risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and mental illness. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of insomnia, which has led to a rise in mental health […] Written by Scott Cairney March 1, 2024March 1, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Art Of Getting Lost Key Takeaway: In 1967, French philosopher Guy Debord argued that we should not be passively consumed by images, but rather engage with them. The Situationist International movement, formed in 1957, aimed to create new ways to reflect on and experience cities as acts of resistance against profit-motivated capitalist structures. The group’s philosophy suggests that we […] Written by Stephen Dobson February 29, 2024February 29, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Rise Of Robo-Retail Key Takeaway: Canada’s first robotic cafe, RC Coffee, opened in Toronto in October 2020, reviving the concept of a restaurant where food and drinks are served by technology. The trend of digitally enabled retail automation has grown in popularity in Canada over the past decade, driven by safety concerns and labor shortages. As of the […] Written by Mathew Iantorno February 28, 2024February 28, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Science Behind The Loch Ness Monster Key Takeaway: The Loch Ness legend, a mysterious freshwater lake in Scotland, has been passed down through generations as mythological creatures. The lake, which is 23 miles long, wide, and deep, has been a subject of fascination for millions of people. However, no physical evidence of an unusual or prehistoric creature has ever been found. […] Written by Michael A. Little February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education Key Takeaways: The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. In his writing, Flynn illustrates study after study, spanning nations and decades, in which modern educational gift of abstraction — a transcendent sign of intelligence, as we saw in Raven’s Matrices — has been […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022October 19, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked