Posts by Kim Browne
Chinese travel giant Trip.com bets on Apac growth as it looks beyond home market
It will strengthen its branding and continue to develop specialised products for the newer audience [SINGAPORE] Once synonymous with China travel, Trip.com Group wants to distinguish itself as a service provider for customers from Asia who want to travel within Asia, in the next three to five years. “And if you become No 1 in…
Read MoreStop Writing Emails Like Term Papers
I’m Erik Huberman, and I have a simple rule for email: if you wouldn’t say it out loud, don’t write it that way. Email is a conversation, not a lecture. Too many people write like they’re turning in homework. That style sounds smart, but it fails at the only thing that matters—getting your point across…
Read MoreECOUNT ERP Product Review: Better Value for Smaller Companies
ECOUNT ERP is a full-featured cloud-hosted enterprise resource planning solution that aims for the small- and mid-scale business sector. Instead of investing in more complex solutions that are not only pricey but downright complicated, ECOUNT aims to integrate a wide range of essential functions in one platform for the businesses that find traditional enterprise-level ERP…
Read MoreApp Measurement in a Privacy-First World: How AppsFlyer Helps Teams Understand App Performance
Trusted by over 15,000 brands and counting, including some of the biggest names such as TikTok, Netflix, Pepsi, and Lululemon, AppsFlyer is one of the leading marketing attribution platforms that helps teams understand app performance. Bundled into a sophisticated suite of performance tracking features and tools that create seamless, contextual journeys across every channel and…
Read MoreMarketing Works When You Respect Three Rules
I’ve built companies and helped grow almost 6,000 brands. The pattern is clear. Great marketing runs on three simple principles: awareness, nurturing, and trust. This isn’t theory. It’s what I use daily, and it’s how I advise founders and CMOs who want results, not noise. My view is blunt. If you don’t build awareness, you…
Read MoreColiwoo to acquire S$101 million Changi asset from ESR-Reit
The property’s location in Changi Business Park provides access to an established corporate tenant base [SINGAPORE] Co-living operator Coliwoo has inked a deal to acquire a hotel property from ESR-Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) for about S$101 million. The deal, announced on Friday (Jan 30) through a bourse filing, involves the hotel strata lot located…
Read MoreAstraZeneca strikes deal for up to US$18.5 billion to license weight-loss drugs from China’s CSPC
The deal builds on existing collaboration between the companies in areas such as artificial intelligence Published Fri, Jan 30, 2026 · 08:50 PM [SHANGHAI] AstraZeneca will license experimental drugs for obesity and weight-related conditions from CSPC Pharmaceutical Group and collaborate on other projects, paying US$1.2 billion upfront and up to US$17.3 billion more if milestones…
Read MoreThe Complete Guide to Launching on Product Hunt (For First-Timers)
You finally have something real. Not a side-project sketch or a half-working demo, but a product people can actually use. Now someone suggests, “You should launch on Product Hunt.” You nod, open the site, see the leaderboard, and immediately feel behind. Do you need a big audience? A famous hunter? A perfect landing page? For…
Read MoreWall Street opens mixed as markets digest Big-Tech AI splurge
Published Thu, Jan 29, 2026 · 10:41 PM [NEW YORK] Wall Street opened mixed on Thursday (Jan 29), as investors waded through mega-cap tech results that showcased another surge in AI spending, while the Federal Reserve held rates steady as widely expected. At 09:30 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 62.50 points, or…
Read MoreForced TikTok US sale may fuel ByteDance’s expansion into Asia: analysts
Other emerging markets have also been identified as potential beneficiaries of the divestment [SINGAPORE] The forced sale of ByteDance’s TikTok in the United States was intended to curb the Chinese tech giant’s influence and standing in the global tech scene. Yet, analysts who spoke to The Business Times believe that the reported US$14 billion deal…
Read MoreAustralian bourse operator ASX jumps after appointments to its corporate governance advisory group
Published Thu, Jan 29, 2026 · 09:36 AM AUSTRALIA’S ASX appointed seven members to its newly constituted advisory group on corporate governance on Thursday, in line with the independent review panel’s recommendations accepted by the bourse operator in October. Shares of the company rose as much as 5.5 per cent to A$56.40, their highest level since Dec…
Read MoreS&P 500 crosses 7,000 ahead of Fed decision, Big Tech earnings
Published Wed, Jan 28, 2026 · 10:49 PM [NEW YORK] The S&P 500 opened at 7,000 mark on Wednesday (Jan 28), while the Nasdaq inched towards a record high, fuelled by a gain in chip stocks and as investors geared up for a Federal Reserve rate decision as well as a slew of Big Tech…
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