Friday, 3 August 2012

Shanghai & PopUp Table's Official Launch


Popup Table - #1!

Our new product, PopUp Table launched this week on the Apple store, as well as our website http://www.popup-table.com/html/index.php. PopUp Table is a mobile application that allows users to receive discounts of at least 35% off at hotel restaurants in Hong Kong. Yesterday, we had many different people from various Hong Kong press companies coming in to talk about the app. You can see my office in this particular interview http://hk.dv.nextmedia.com/actionnews/local/20120803/16572012/16572643, however I was having lunch so was not at my desk.

Our Hotel In Shanhai

It's really cool seeing how fast the app is growing, in real time. This is especially true with the number of fans on our Facebook page. We have also become the #1 free food and beverage app on the Apple store in just a few short days! We’ve surpassed Openrice, which is a very large, popular company for finding restaurants in Hong Kong.

Shanghai Food- AKA The Best Food Ever

Although I'm not studying marketing, it is still important, especially for accountants, to understand the other areas of the business. This internship is giving me a really good insight in to the functions of IT and marketing departments, something I am sure will be useful later in my career. It's also making me better understand which area of accounting I'd like to go into further into my career. I really enjoy assisting small businesses grow. 

"The Bund" - Shanghai

I had taken some time off at the beginning of this week to visit Shanghai. It reminded me a lot of Toronto, but had some really cool traditional areas with interesting gifts and architecture. It was especially pretty in the evening. It was similar to Hong Kong in some ways, but the language is different (Mandarin instead of Cantonese) and hardly anyone spoke English. This made getting around the city more difficult, but we managed! Our flight to Shanghai was delayed over 10 hours! We spent all day Friday at the Hong Kong airport, and didn’t arrive in Shanghai until 5am!

Cutest Fish Ever! At the Aquarium

Despite the late landing, we still had tonnes of fun; especially at the aquarium. All the fish were really cool especially the jellyfish and one fish that looked like a dragon fruit. Their aquarium had the world’s longest under-tank tunnel. 

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