Popular Hong Kong Lifestyle Magazine Gives HK Startups the Cover Treatment: Nest, MakiBox, CoCoon and More Featured

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It makes sense to be covered in the South China Morning Post and HK Business but when lifestyle periodicals Time-Out and HK Magazine start covering the startup scene in Hong Kong, it sounds like we’ve gone mainstream!

In this week’s HK Magazine out today, there is an 8-page cover story on the HK startup scene that we invite you to pick up (or download below.) The writer @SarahFung interviews a wide spectrum of people like our very own Casey Lau and Jon Buford, 10 startups from Hotel Quickly to ShopHop to Spacious with tips from Nest’s Simon Squibb and overviews of some of the co-workspaces.

Some quotes:

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AngelHack, the Biggest Hackathon on the Planet, Comes to Hong Kong 19-20 October

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In a few short weeks the largest Mobile App Hackathon, ever is coming to Hong Kong: AngelHack Fall 2013.

Over 30 cities and 6,000 developers will join in to build stronger developer ecosystem around the world.

What makes AppHACK the best hackathon series on the planet?

  • Developer bootcamps to teach Android and iOS development.
  • 100’s of developers and designers at the event for you to work with.
  • 50% discount for all developers/designers who solve our riddle below.
  • Incentives throughout the event to encourage teams helping one another.
  • $100’000’s in sponsor prizes.
  • Fun toys and games spread throughout the venue.
  • Great food and lots of it.
  • Coding through the night (with pillows).
  • Top teams entering the HACKcelerator pre-accelerator program.
  • Sponsor awards, breakout sessions, and post-event parties
  • Mandatory Demos. Banning of slide decks. And code reviews to ensure winning teams are within the rules.

Never been to a hackathon? Here’s what you can expect:

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[Event] The OpenStack Summit Is Coming To Hong Kong on 5-8 November

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This November the OpenStack Summit will bring together the brightest technical minds to discuss the future of cloud computing on 5-8th, in Hong Kong.

With OpenStack software quickly gaining adoption around the world, the Summit agenda will feature case studies from users like Ctrip, PayPal, Workday and Yahoo!, alongside visionary CTOs and technical leaders from companies like Canonical, Cisco, HP, Huawei, IBM, Red Hat and VMware.

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