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People who have innovative ideas in medical technology will rejoice when you hear this latest news: as part of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2015 plan (PDF), the Singapore government is launching a SGD 40M (USD 32M) fund for medical technology startups. This funding will be managed by SPRING SEEDS Capital, under a new Biomedical ...
Next week, join in online as participants from key retail, food and beverage, and hospitality associations come together with technology organizations to share their insights and ideas on how companies in these industry sectors can use mobile devices and channels to increase business and improve productivity. Mobile Alliance and these industries are hosting an online ...
Surveylicious is a mobile geo-location survey platform which allows businesses to collect customer feedback in real-time. It was one of the tech companies selected by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) to visit New York City (NYC) for a week, from 9 to 13 May (related talk from NYCEDC in March). The purpose of ...
After LinkedIn‘s IPO (some say spectacular, some argue otherwise), the professional social network is opening an office in Singapore to be their Asia Pacific headquarters. While we already know that LinkedIn Japan is also in the works, the Singapore office seems more firmed up with Arvind Rajan, LinkedIn’s managing director and vice president for Asia-Pacific ...
This year, 2011, is all about tablets. If you develop apps for tablets, the SingTel i.Challenge11 might interest you. This Thursday, Singtel Innovation Exchange (SiX) is official launching the SingTel i.Challenge 11. Take this opportunity to hear the latest on tablets, network with industry experts and meet with fellow developers to discuss the next big ...
Attend this Drupal Meetup to learn how to allow your CRM to be integrated to 3rd party applications or create a RESTful server when you build a mobile app. About The Speakers Arul Kumaran is a Flash Platform Consultant and Chief Technology Officer at LuraCast, a company that build Tools, Utilities and Services for Web/Mobile/Applicati on/Content ...
Looks like the interactive digital media incubation centre, Blk71 just got a new tenant in FounderHQ. Affiliated with Founder Institute Singapore, FounderHQ is a co-working space (~ 2000 sq ft) for founders of early stage startups. Housed in the grander incubation region/scheme of “MediaPolis 220;, FounderHQ is now open for applications and admissions is …
When you want to map something like the “startup genome”, you know you need more than just your four co-working founder friends – you need an army of people and organisations who work with startups to make it happen. Enter the seed accelerator, Blackbox. Co-founded by techVenture, StartupSchool, and FoundersFirst, Blackbox’s extended team has a ...
After the official kickoff of the Singapore Startup Roots Speaker Series by Neoteny Labs’ Joichi “Joi” Ito two weeks ago, next up we have Carl Coreyll-Martin, the Managing Director of Pivotal Labs Singapore. He will speak about the “Wringing out the Muda, Mura and Muri in your Software Process”. Event Details When: Thursday 2nd June ...
Female entrepreneurs/geeks, pencil into your calendar the evening of 6th June. Together with Women 2.0 and PlayMoolah, SGE is co-hosting a women-only mixer to meet fellow founders (both aspiring and current) and the Women 2.0 Pitch Director from Silicon Valley over appetizers and drinks. Mixer Details When: Monday 6th June 2011 Time: 7pm Where: SmartSpace, ...
For a one-stop to all events related to or concerning entrepreneurship, certain industry-meets-busin ess forums and seminars in Singapore, check out our Calendar. If not, you can also follow our bite-size updated posts for upcoming events for the week. Events range from simple get-togethers to full-blown conferences. Get to meet fellow developers, entrepreneurs, startup CEOs …
When we wrote about DEMO coming to Singapore with DEMO Asia (ex-China), there was a huge buzz. Produced primarily in the US, DEMO is a conference that focuses on launching new technologies and products. Some of the innovations that were launched at past DEMO events have become well-known brands. These include Adobe Acrobat, Skype Mobile ...
Between dedicated photo-sharing site, Flickr and social network, Facebook, it is the latter that sees more photos being uploaded everyday: a good 5 billion photos are uploaded on Facebook every month, while Flickr has in total about 5 billion photos. No doubt, users love photos on Facebook – both uploading and flipping through them. Development ...
Launched by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) two days ago, ideas2IP is an online innovation platform where individual inventors can submit their ideas and investors can help distil promising ones into a form that has commercial potential because ideas, like crude oil, may contain impurities in its raw form. In this “crude oil” ...
Singapore and Shanghai-based Vickers Venture Partners has invested USD 3M (SGD 3.7M) into Shanghai-based gaming development house, Spicy Horse. Started in late 2006, Spicy Horse develops games and now wants to bring 3D free-to-play games to the online and casual gaming market. At the same time, Spicy Horse has also signed a development deal with ...
Out of 100 startup entries, 40 were selected to pitch at satellite events in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Out of these 40, a final 11 were chosen. These 11 will present at the grand finale – Launchpad at Echelon 2011 in Singapore in June. Echelon 2011 is a two-day, double-track event with various ...
Dynamic individuals such as the founders of popular club The Butter Factory and Marble Slab Creamery will gather to share their stories on entrepreneurship – discover the challenges they faced and gain insights into how they turned their business ideas into success stories. As a part of The Entrepreneur’s Challenge 2011, Ngee Ann Alumni (NAA) ...




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