Hong Kong-based HotelQuickly Expands to Three Metropolitan Cities in The Phillipines

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HotelQuickly, the hotel booking app that offers last-minute deals across Asia, has expanded to the Philippines. Those travelling through the metropolitan areas of Manila, Cebu and Davao now have access to 500 new hotels at their mobile fingertips.

For those that haven’t experienced the ease of HotelQuickly yet, here’s how it works: nine hotel deals are listed based on the user’s location once the app is opened up. As a private sales channel, only members have access to the exclusive deals – which are deemed more competitive than online agents. Not only can members enjoy competitive rates without planning ahead, but HotelQuickly promises to refund twice the difference if a cheaper deal is found elsewhere.

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Hong Kong-Based Recruit.Net Launches a New Job Search Tool With Deep Social Integration

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As Google and Ipsos Media CT revealed in a joint study in August, Hong Kong tops the APAC charts in smartphone internet usage and we discovered that a whopping 90% of Hong Kongers use the mobile web every single day. But what are all those eyeballs focusing on?

Besides messaging, gaming and online shopping, some smartphone users in Asia are actually using their devices to go on the job hunt. According to web analytics data scooped up by Recruit.net, a Hong Kong-based job site, one out of three job seekers in Asia (Singapore is in first, and Hong Kong and Japan are close behind) now uses their mobile devices to search for employment opportunities.
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Startup Saturday: Crowdfunding Hong Kong 2014 is on 25 January at The Landmark

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Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, RocketHub, FringeBacker, Big Colors, Crowdrise, Quirky, AngelList – crowdfunding is definitely the future of getting your ideas off the ground and we’re putting together the first Startup Saturday around this topic on January 25. Register now at this link and see the latest list of speakers and agenda.

We’ll be coming at from a few angles:

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