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Online group buying gained prominence in other parts of Asia during 2010 with new websites in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. Google launched their own daily deals site in 2011 called " Google Offers " after its $6 billion acquisition offer to Groupon was rejected.
They wanted to round up people to buy the same product in order to receive a group discount. Founder Eric Lefkofsky wanted the company to pivot in order to focus entirely on group buying. Born from The Point, Groupon was launched in November 2008. [15] [16] [17] The name for the e-commerce platform, Groupon is a portmanteau of "group" and ...
The company then expanded into the Philippines in 2014 and Indonesia in 2015. Expanding into three more countries in 2016, [4] [8] that year FWD Group acquired Shenton Insurance in Singapore, [9] also purchasing a unit from Great Eastern Holdings Ltd. in Vietnam [8] for $35 million. [16] In late 2016, FWD agreed to buy AIG's Fuji Life Insurance ...
From 2009 to 2014, Sheng Siong was a benefactor for Singapore Red Cross Society's Project R.I.C.E which reaches out to underprivileged families by gifting them with rice during Chinese New Year. [28] [29] [30] The public could buy rice vouchers at a reduced price at any Sheng Siong outlet to support this initiative.
Keppel agreed in November to buy an AI-ready data centre facility in Japan. Singapore is a major hub for data centres and undersea cables, but the small island-state has nearly saturated its data ...
Yanlord Land Group: Real estate 6,130 -132 11,530 14 Singapore Power: Utilities 5,443 752 ... Singapore 5.2 3.0 20.3 8.9 Electronics 8 1254 Olam International: Singapore
Sea Limited (stylized as: sea) is a tech conglomerate headquartered in Singapore.Established in 2009 by Forrest Li, Sea was initially founded as Garena, a game development and publishing company known for its Free Fire title.
Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited is a Singaporean state-owned multinational investment firm. Incorporated on 25 June 1974, Temasek has a net portfolio of US$288 billion (S$389 billion) as of 2024, with S$33 billion divested and S$26 billion invested during the year.