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This New Underwear Protects Your Sperm From Cell Phone and Wi-Fi Radiation
As wireless technology has rapidly advanced over the years, we’ve become so focused on the amazing gadgets available to us that we don’t see the detrimental effects they could have on our body. Studies have shown that males who were exposed to laptop Wi-Fi for just four hours…
· Alan Van
Science Reveals How Far Your Germs Travel Every Time You Sneeze
As if you needed any more reasons to not fly on an airplane these days, a video showing exactly how potentially SARS/measles/cooties-infected sneeze particles travel everywhere inside a plane is making the internet rounds. Using what Popular Science calls “computational fluid…
· Alan Van
A Former Spice Girl is Named Top Entrepreneur in Britain
Britain’s top entrepreneur has been crowned, and it’s none other than … get ready for it … Posh Spice?
· Alan Van
10 Motivational Tactics You’re Using That Are Actually Causing More Harm Than Good
Effectively motivating others is hard and can be a job unto itself — unfortunately, it’s a necessary skill almost everyone will find themselves having to do and do well at some point in their lives, whether you are a manager, a parent, a team leader, or a multitude of other…
· Benny Luo
Former Apple Employee Sam Sung Has Some Sage Advice For Setting Yourself Apart in Business
Sam Sung made headlines back in 2012 when his Apple business card went viral on the internet. People simply found it hilarious that an Apple employee could bear the name of the company’s biggest competitor.
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How a Poor Farm Boy Built One of the Most Recognized Exotic Car Brands in the World
This is the story of a man named Ferruccio. Ferruccio was born on April 28th, 1916 to poor grape farmers in Northern Italy. As he grew up, he became more interested in farming equipment and tractors than actual farming, and in the 1930s he enrolled at the Fratelli Taddia…
· Waylae Gregoire
College Student Reveals How He Mines Bitcoins in His Dorm Room — The Cheap Way
Nothing in the tech world confuses us as much as Bitcoin it seems. What we do know about it is that it’s volatile and it can be worth a ton of money, but we hardly understand where it comes from, who invented it apparently, or what it is past being a crypto-currency- even that…
· Editorial Staff
Tiki Barber: How a Former NFL Player Decided To Launch a Startup
What do football players do after retiring from the NFL? If you’re the New York Giant’s former running back Tiki Barber, you go out and start a company. After retiring from the NFL in 2007, followed by a stint as a television host, Barber launched Thuzio, an online site that…
· Benny Luo
Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe: Why Having Creative People Makes Successful Businesses
I’ve always been enamored by the work Mr. Greg Selkoe of Karmaloop has been able to produce over the years. I think its because I can relate to him on the level that we both have ADHD and suffered with it tremendously during our pre-college years. However, even with these…
· Benny Luo
Harvard Drop Out and Former VC Team Up to Create Sprayable Energy [INTERVIEW]
Last month, we told you about about an indiegogo campaign for Sprayable Energy, a cool alternative to coffee and energy drinks. The campaign was a huge success, raising over $169,000 when their goal had only been $15,000. Not too shabby! For those that don’t know, Sprayable…
· Simon Davis
3 Reasons Why Every Entrepreneur Should Be Using Incubators
You’re looking into starting your own business. Right now, you may feel like you’re in the larval stage — you have a bank account, you’ve got a decent understanding of bookkeeping basics, and you’ve purchased your Shopify domain. That doesn’t mean, however, that you are 100…
· Editorial Staff
A Japanese Company Built Something All Introverted Nerds Would Love
Thanks to a Japanese company, you can now buy your own privacy cube to shield yourself from the outside world and other humans.
· Editorial Staff
Inside the Life of a Man Who Makes up to $200,000 a NIGHT Hanging Out With Girls
There are only a select number of jobs in this world that make me go “WTF!?” The job of a male japanese host is one of them. A report by Vocative goes into the life of Hikaru Aizawa, who is supposedly the best male host in all of Japan. He claims to make up to $200,000 USD a…
· Benny Luo
How a 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur Got Intel to Invest Big Money in His World-Changing Startup
When I was 13 years old, I was still trading Pokemon cards and working up the nerve to ask my crush to the school dance. Thirteen-year-old Shubham Banerjee, however, is already the CEO of a company that’s so badass that Intel’s looked past his young age and invested hundreds of…
· Sebastian Dillon
Meet the Woman Making Bank Cuddling With Strangers for $60 an Hour
Samantha Hess is a 30-year-old entrepreneur who just opened up an interesting business. It’s called “Cuddle Up To Me” and it’s basically a service where customers can walk in and cuddle with someone for $60 an hour.
· Jacob Wagner
Researchers Discover Something Terrible in Rice That Commonly Causes Cancer
Researchers have discovered some troubling news about a popular food we all eat: rice is loaded with cancer-causing inorganic arsenic — so much that they are recommending small children not to eat rice “more than twice per month.” In findings released yesterday, Consumer Reports…
· Zach Schwartz
The Phat Startup: Hip-Hop Meets Entrepreneurship At This NYC Tech Conference
If tech had an official soundtrack, it would be hip-hop. The idea of making something out of nothing is at the core of both entrepreneurship and hip-hop. Both tap into the promise of the American Dream we all have buried within us. Enter The Phat Startup, a media company that…
· Sebastian Dillon
5 Reasons Why Everyone Needs to Fail in Their 20s to Be Successful
Everyone knows that failure is bad. It’s no secret that every single successful being today has noted failures in his or her life. Some choose to mope around and let it slowly destroy them, while others fight through and eventually see success. However, how does one actually…
· Sebastian Dillon
Rich, Grumpy VCs Got Angry Over This Entrepreneur’s Post About Stealing From Whole Foods
There are two kinds of people in this world — those who can take a joke, and those who blow even the smallest things they don’t understand out of proportion … Okay, not totally out of proportion, but you won’t not be able to smirk and shake your head at how ridiculous some…
· Jacob Wagner
India Just Became One of the Hottest Places to Grow a Startup and Invest
While China may be the world’s next big tech market, startup fever has caught on in India and now the whole world is investing in the Indian versions of Alibaba and Uber. India’s growth, not to mention its massive population, makes it a new land of opportunity for both…
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Alibaba
Alibaba is China's commerce-and-entertainment backbone — Taobao and Tmall shopping habits fund Youku streaming and Alibaba Pictures, tying online spending to what China watches.
Company · Korea · NYSE:CPNG
Coupang
Coupang is Korea's Amazon — overnight Rocket Delivery plus Coupang Play, a streaming service bundling K-content and live sports into the shopping habit.
Company · Indonesia · IDX:GOTO
GoTo Group
GoTo is the app Indonesia runs on — Gojek rides, Tokopedia shopping, and GoPay wallets woven into daily life for the world's fourth-most-populous country.
Company · Singapore · NASDAQ:GRAB
Grab
Grab is the everyday super-app of Southeast Asia — rides, food, and payments in one wallet across eight countries, the way hundreds of millions actually move and eat.
Company · Korea · KRX:035720
Kakao
Kakao touches messaging, webtoons, music, and entertainment distribution in everyday Korean digital life.
Company · China · HKEX:1024
Kuaishou
Kuaishou is China's number-two short-video platform, where livestream selling turned everyday creators into a shopping channel and rewired how goods get sold.
Company · Korea · KRX:035420
Naver
One of the layers behind Webtoon, LINE, Snow.
Company · Japan · TYO:4755
Rakuten Group
Rakuten touches shopping, memberships, points, streaming, and platform habits that affect how people actually spend.
Alibaba · Platforms · NYSE:BABA
The Grammys created an award for Asian pop. BTS said no.
Alibaba is China's commerce-and-entertainment backbone — Taobao and Tmall shopping habits fund Youku streaming and Alibaba Pictures, tying online spending to what China watches.