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Budget-lodging startup Oyo on Monday reported a loss of $335 million on $951 million revenue globally for the financial year ending March 31, 2019, and pledged to cut down on its spending as the India-headquartered firm grows cautious about its aggressive expansion. The six-year-old startup’s growing revenue, up from $211 million in financial year ending […]

Gojek Xcelerate’s 3rd edition selects 9 local retail startups to growth-hack gojek’s accelerator programme Gojek Xcelerate has entered its third season with the appointment of nine retail startups to receive training in growth-hack in collaboration with Digitaraya and others. gojek said that the focus of the programme will be to apply daily consumer innovation and […]

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Gojek Xcelerate’s 3rd edition selects 9 local retail startups to growth-hack gojek’s accelerator programme Gojek Xcelerate has entered its third season with the appointment of nine retail startups to receive training in growth-hack in collaboration with Digitaraya and others. gojek said that the focus of the programme will be to apply daily consumer innovation and […]

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The tourism sector has today grown to be an integral part of the world’s economy. Tourism currently represents 10 per cent of the world’s GDP and is a substantial global job provider. There is a big room for growth in Southeast Asia’s tourism, however. Recent statistics predict that the tourism and travel sector in the […]

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The tourism sector has today grown to be an integral part of the world’s economy. Tourism currently represents 10 per cent of the world’s GDP and is a substantial global job provider. There is a big room for growth in Southeast Asia’s tourism, however. Recent statistics predict that the tourism and travel sector in the […]

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Jack Hill may not have foreseen the massive revolution telecommuting would create in the global work scene when he postulated a flexible working structure for workers who reside in distant locations in his book Telecommunications-Transportation Trade-off. Today, remote work has become a fast-growing trend in the tech ecosystem with more startups using remote teams as […]

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