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Amazon Reportedly Making Progress With Japanese Publishers, Kindle Coming…...
Any of our readers in Japan who are waiting for Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) to start selling e-books and its Kindle e-reader the country are very likely running out of patience. We’ve been following Japanese...
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How Amazon Localized For China
For western companies, China is probably the hardest country to localize for. But Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is trying hard in China and has come a long way. It acquired Lei Jun’s e-commerce startup Joyo...
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Alibaba vs Amazon in an infographic
Alibaba vs Amazon? It’s tough to compare the two e-commerce companies given that each company subscribes to different business models. But that didn’t stop the guys at Smart Intern China to create an...
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Jack vs Jeff: The two biggest ecommerce billionaires in the world are total...
In 1990, Jack Ma was teaching English to a group of university students at Hangzhou Dianzi University. Who would have thought that, 24 years later, he would be China’s richest man? In that same year,...
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Xiaomi founders ride auto rickshaw ahead of today’s product launch in India
Xiaomi founders Lin Bin (left) and Lei Jun in an auto rickshaw in Mumbai this morning. Xiaomi is a master at building excitement on social media ahead of a product launch. The Chinese company’s first...
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Debate TIA: Who’s better? Alibaba versus Amazon!
Hi there, It’s Minh, the community editor of Tech In Asia here. In the spirit of new experiments in content, I’m trying out a new one: Debate TIA. The basic idea is this: let’s jump on Tech In Asia...
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There’s so much awkwardness to enjoy at the ‘US-China tech summit’
In Seattle last night, a group of US tech executives joined their Chinese counterparts to meet with China’s president Xi Jinping on his first US state visit. The result was this awkward group photo:...
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This is how Bill Gates wants to stop climate change
A house on stilts Photo Credit: University College London This summer, Bill Gates promised to help “bend the curve” on climate change. Now he is showing how. The Microsoft co-founder is teaming up with...
View ArticleAmazon is closing in on Flipkart. Jeff Bezos describes how he got there
Hint: it’s not the same as China.
View ArticleAmazon’s Jeff Bezos: find the eternal truths in your business
Businesses should think about things that will be true for them even a decade from now. Their strategy should then revolve around those things.
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13 biographies every entrepreneur must read in 2017
Photo credit: Tech in Asia. Top leaders are voracious readers. From Apple’s Steve Jobs to Nike founder Phil Knight, Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz to junk bond king Michael Milken, they had a passion...
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Brief: Jeff Bezos’ recipe to prevent Amazon’s death
Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon. Photo credit: Steve Jurvetson. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in his annual letter to shareholders, outlined his philosophy for keeping the ecommerce giant spry and...
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Infographic: 15 quotes for entrepreneurs – what they don’t teach you in...
From Steve Jobs to Elon Musk, Jack Ma to Muhammad Ali, we find inspiration to do better from the smartest practitioners in diverse fields. These are words of wisdom from the school of experience from...
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Jeff Bezos became the world’s richest person hours after Amazon’s Singapore...
Jeff Bezos just got some very good news indeed. Photo credit: James Duncan Davidson. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos snatched Bill Gates’ crown as world’s richest individual yesterday after the US...
View ArticleVideo: Jeff Bezos has great advice on how to decide fast
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has some solid – quite possibly classic – advice on when to pull the trigger on a decision. This post Video: Jeff Bezos has great advice on how to decide fast appeared first on Tech...
View ArticleVideo: Jeff Bezos before he was a billionaire
Did you know that Jeff Bezos was – albeit briefly – a burger flipper at McDonald’s? Here’s more on his early life before Amazon brought him fame and riches. This post Video: Jeff Bezos before he was a...
View ArticleVideo: Musk, Bezos and humanity’s race to Mars
Here’s a timeline of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires’ ambitions as they race into space – and then on to colonize Mars. This post Video: Musk, Bezos and humanity’s race to Mars appeared...
View ArticleThe ‘two-pizza rule’ productivity hack by Jeff Bezos was actually a failure....
The much-touted productivity hack didn't actually work.
View ArticleWhat is Jeff Bezos like as a manager?
Some of his employees adore him. Some found him to have serious shortcomings. All feel he’s a great visionary who knows how to build a lasting company.
View ArticleHow Amazon’s ‘one-click purchase’ feature changed the game
Bezos is fanatical about squeezing out every incremental percentage point of usefulness in Amazon.com.
View ArticleAn interview with the first person Jeff Bezos hired at Amazon
Bezos called him the most important person who's ever worked at Amazon.
View ArticleHow Jeff Bezos saved the Kindle from failing
Bezos was forced to put an apology letter on Amazon’s Web site.
View ArticleMusk versus Bezos: How two billionaires battled it out for the space race
Musk’s tweets caused a frenzy in the media, which wanted a response from Bezos to keep the rivalry going, to let these two billionaires in space duke it out.
View ArticleIn brief: SoftBank’s Son recalls how he missed out on $260b Amazon stake
The tech mogul revealed he "didn't have enough cash" at the time.
View ArticleIn brief: Amazon to shut China marketplace, says Reuters
After 15 years, Amazon is still a minor player.
View ArticleAsia’s richest man takes on world’s wealthiest to rule over India’s ecommerce...
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos' plan to control this emerging market faces a challenge: an army of small businesses backed by Reliance boss Mukesh Ambani.
View ArticleJeff Bezos announces over $1b investment to digitize Indian sellers
The announcement comes shortly after India ordered antitrust probe on Flipkart and Amazon.
View ArticleAmazon scores big as India’s top court halts Reliance-Future...
Reliance Industries and Future Retail will now have to fight it out with Amazon in arbitration proceedings in Singapore, according to a Bloomberg report.
View Article‘Future’ tense for Reliance as legal battle with Amazon likely to continue
Future Group said it will pursue all available avenues to conclude the US$3.4 billion deal with Reliance Retail.
View ArticleTencent, Jeff Bezos back $87m round of Indonesian B2B ecommerce startup Ula
The startup says it currently offers over 6,000 products and serves more than 70,000 traditional retail stores on its platform.
View ArticleBezos-backed Ula’s winning combo may be commerce and credit
While Ula’s customer segment is notorious for having high credit risk, the B2B ecommerce player believes that it has the right model and approach.
View ArticleBezos’ favorite Indonesian startup?
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View ArticleJeff Bezos’ second investment in Indonesia is SME-focused firm Lummo
In January, Lummo also became the first investment of CapitalG, Alphabet's VC arm, in Southeast Asia.
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