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Citydomo rewards you for crafting reviews, but penalizes you for writing...
Taiwan startup Citydomo is putting an interesting twist to online reviews by adding a gamified layer. Instead of simply creating a website and praying that users will flock to it to rant or rave about...
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Twelve Cupcakes displays articles about itself on website; SPH demands payment
Updated: 8th July, 12pm UTC+8 A celebrity couple, who runs food business Twelve Cupcakes, recently put up articles written about their business on Facebook, Twitter and the company’s website. However,...
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Restaurant reservation service Chope seats one-millionth diner in a year
Chope, a web and mobile restaurant reservation service, has announced in a press release that it has seated one million diners since its launch in June 2011. A quarter of its online reservations come...
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SingTel’s Optus acquires Australian food review site Eatability for US$6.2M
Optus, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SingTel, announced in a statement today that it has acquired Australian food review site Eatability for A$6M (US$6.2M). Eatability was launched in 2003 by Celeste...
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Squiryl partners with Sakae Sushi and Cafe Cartel, dishes 10k acorns in under...
Singapore-based mobile loyalty app Squiryl has partnered with restaurant chains Sakae Sushi and Cafe Cartel to distribute ‘acorns’, their version of loyalty stamps, through POS systems. The program...
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Abratable puts a twist on web restaurant reservations, offers mass bookings...
Online restaurant reservation site Abratable has the unfortunate distinction of starting almost a year after its competitors Chope and Reserveit.sg. SingTel, which recently acquired restaurant portal...
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With Hastify, queuing for food could become a thing of the past
Queuing is agonizing. According to a New York Times article, supermarkets earn about USD 5.5 billion annually from impulse buys, caused in large part by the need of shoppers to relieve the agony of...
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Yelp enters Asia with launch in Singapore
San Francisco-headquarterd restaurant review site Yelp went public in March and has been expanding aggressively into new markets ever since. This time, Yelp officially launches in Singapore (its Asian...
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SingTel’s HungryGoWhere partners with Perx and Reserveit.sg, could lay...
Imagine reading a restaurant review on HungryGoWhere, then booking a table on Reserveit.sg. Once the reservation is done, you get a notification on Perx saying that you’ve received a chop, which allows...
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Apple’s Passbook to step foot in Singapore via Jurong Point mall’s app;...
Jurong Point, one of Singapore’s largest suburban malls, will soon integrate Apple’s Passbook technology into its retail app. This means that iOS6 users with the app will be able to claim an offer...
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