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by Nicholas Aaron Khoo, Singapore

Twitter co-founder starts a mobile payment company

Dec 3, 2009 07:35

This geek read with much interest Jack Dorsey's foray into the mobile payments space as I've been working in the payment industry and always mused about the importance of this industry to the success of Web 2.0 and social media, especially after meeting the social media payment platform guys from Orca in San Jose recently.
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YOUREKA! You've won a car!

Dec 1, 2009 07:33

Yahoo! Singapore's seven-week online and offline treasure hunt ended on Saturday in a race against time with 50 super sleuths battling face-to-face to solve clues that would win them a Yahoo! Honda Jazz body-painted by avant-garde artist Mimi Mushud.�

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10 things you should know about the Nokia E72

Nov 26, 2009 02:53

This geek has always found it a source of pride somewhat to have single-handedly converted more than 10 of his friends to the BlackBerry religion. Last night, I was given a chance to take a peek at the Nokia E72 and here're some thoughts, from a BlackBerry Bold user's point of view.

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The hottest location-based mobile social gaming app finally in Singapore!

Nov 22, 2009 03:16

This geek was introduced to the hottest location-based mobile social gaming app (I think that's what it should be called) in Silicon Valley called foursquare back in September when he was in San Francisco. Imagine my surprise that an app as popular as this was not only not in Singapore, it wasn't even in some parts of the states like Indianapolis!

So I only managed to check into Chicago and San Francisco when I joined foursquare and had to leave my account to rot once I left the States.
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Asia's first green festival in Singapore

Nov 13, 2009 13:58

In what has been touted as Asia's First Green Festival, the IndoChine Green Festival 2009, in association with the APEC CEO Summit Singapore, is running from November 10 till November 30 in support of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Hopenhagen.

This festival is a countdown to the United Nation's green event in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is the world's first series of events for IUCN.
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About Nicholas Aaron Khoo

Nicknamed "Gadget Boy" by friends at age 18 because he used to scribble Grafitti on a PalmPilot faster than most would type, Nicholas Aaron Khoo is web developer turned technopreneur and Singapore tech blogger who also pretends to do strategic advisory for tech startups and 'un'Fortune 500s (when he's not pretending to be the gadget-loaded Batman). A digital nomad, his tech interests range from gadgets, games, tech trends, social media, security, and just about anything that runs on 1s and 0s. See his industry affiliations here.
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