Three years ago in 2008, Visa launched an aggressive campaign to court small businesses. Called the Visa Business Network, it was the first-ever application dedicated to connecting small businesses on Facebook. To celebrate the initiative, Visa awarded $2 million in [...]

Some of the most successful businesses today like Facebook, Hewlett Packard and Google started in a dorm room, garage or mom’s basement but they all share the same trait — A founder with a great vison. Influential people and entrepreneurs that [...]

Luanne Teoh June 24, 2011 Airbnb.com, the startup company which allows you to rent out your home, room or even couch recently raised $100 million round in funding at a $1 billion valuation. In the highly competitive travel space, Airbnb has achieved [...]

Luanne Teoh June 23, 2011 Google recently unveiled its speech recognition search on desktop. Simply known as Voice Search, all you need is Chrome version 11 or higher and a built in or attached microphone on your computer. Click on the image [...]

Luanne Teoh 6/22/2011 With smartphones and tablets tucked away in our pockets wherever we go pretty much guarantees we can shop anytime we want. The rate of smartphone adoption is predicted to reach 50% of the US population by year end.  Meanwhile [...]

Luanne Teoh June 21, 2011 The growth of group buying sites has been phenomenal since Groupon exploded into the scene three years ago. Daily deal sites are now more focused by providing deals based on niche categories such as food and beverage [...]

Luanne Teoh June 15, 2011 Yesterday Google announced a new homepage feature across all mobile devices. The new features include icon based shortcuts to facilitate quicker searches for location based services like restaurants, bars, coffee shops and more. The significance of this [...]