Networking Afternoon Tea Event with Deloitte’s Fast Tech 500 Award Winners on 5 December

November 15, 2013 by StartupsHK

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The UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is presenting an exclusive networking afternoon tea event inviting Hong Kong Startups to meet the winners of Deloitte’s Fast Tech 500 award, which rates the 500 fastest growth technology companies by region, based on percentage revenue growth over five or three years.

This will also be a great opportunity for startups to learn more about the developments within Hong Kong’s largest technology companies, including HKT and PCCW Solutions International. The event will kick off with an opening by entrepreneur, author and UKTI Dealmaker, Mr. Alpesh Patel, followed by a short presentation from the PCCW Solutions.

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Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Deloitte, Fast Tech 500 award, networking event, PCCW, The UK Trade & Investment

5 Questions With Spottly, A Social Travel App That Helps You Share Your Favorite Places

November 8, 2013 by StartupsHK

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Remember Spottly, one of the top 10 startups who showcased at our past Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013? Right after the event, the app was featured on App Store’s “Best New Apps” in 15 markets across Asia (Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Brunei, Cambodia, and Laos) for 2 weeks since its launch!

When check-in is no longer fun to you or your friends, what else are you willing to share related to location and places you’ve been to? Spottly found a solution to those who love to explore cities and those who love to capture their new discoveries around town – It allows you to create interesting places and build your own traveling lists.

You can keep them to yourself as a journal or share it with your friends so they can join you. By posting photos, adding notes and creating traveling lists, users can organize their own “foodie-class” restaurants or those “dream-lands” lists just for themselves. Spottly helps you to discover interesting places, or in other words, to improve your quality of life!

We are as curious as you are so we had a chat with Edwyn Chan, the co-founder of this novel social travel app and here are 5 questions about him and this new startup he’s working on.

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Filed Under: Interviews, News Tagged With: app store, Mobilliance 2013, social, spottly, travel app

Hong Kong’s First Google Digicamp at ArtisTree

November 8, 2013 by Iris Leung

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ArtisTree hosted Hong Kong’s first ever Google DigiCamp on Wednesday.

If you’re having trouble visualizing this, think 20,000 square feet of sensory overload: larger than life 3D brand logos (YouTube, Maps, Google+ etc.), mounted TV screens with real-time product demonstrations, projections of interactive games on the walls and of course, a giant domed Android head in the corner.

Basically, it was the amusement park equivalent for Google fans where attendees gave new and existing Google tools a whirl. In the Android corner, the delicious mascot KitKat stood next to fans eagerly waiting to design their own Androidify character for customized tote bags. At the interactive games wall, attendees got to simulate the Google Maps experience by using their body to navigate through the streets of Hong Kong, while others tried out the skydiving emulator; both were created exclusively for DigiCamp.

Exhibits for Art, Copy & Code (a 60 second film build out of code, personalized based on the viewer’s location, the weather and time of day) and 500 Chrome Experiments (showcase of web experiments written by the creative coding community) were also a couple notables.

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