July 31, 2009 by Gwendolyn Regina T
Serial entrepreneur Kok Choong has founded two funded companies, one of which remains in the past, but the other, Teliwave, the company behind Hoiio (helps you reduce your mobile call rates), is alive and kicking. Teliwave has so far raised a total of S$1.5m in angel funds and grants. We had a chat with Kok Choong to find out a bit more about his story and that of Teliwave and Hoiio. Read more
July 30, 2009 by Gwendolyn Regina T
New industry-led organization, Mobile Alliance had their very first Meet-The-Members session today. Aimed at introducing the committee, some of its members and share some plans, the session brought together current and potential members. Read more
July 30, 2009 by SGEntrepreneurs
The local company that is behind WaveSecure (the mobile security product being used by many leading brands) is looking to add more people into their team. tenCube has several positions open and have classified them into Tech and Business positions. Both have specific email addresses to email, so be careful. Read more
July 30, 2009 by Guest Contributor
First in a series of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) articles, this piece by SEO consulting firm, Net Minds introduces to the general crowd SEO. Moving forward, they will examine the particularities of Singapore SEO campaigns. Read more
July 29, 2009 by SGEntrepreneurs
And online advertising specialist, Chris Axberg, Director of Sales for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, will be the speaker for the evening. Chris has been in the industry for over 12 years. He was formerly the publisher of SCMP.com (the South China Morning Post website in Hong Kong) and before that held senior sales positions with Real Media and McAfee in the US. Read more
July 29, 2009 by SGEntrepreneurs
Organized by Social Innovation Park, the annual Global Social Innovators Forum gathers together leaders and decision-makers to explore how Social Enterprise and Innovation can create income and growth opportunities for businesses. Read more
July 29, 2009 by SGEntrepreneurs
Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Starhub’s Prepaid Mobile Broadband Plan, [2] Windows 7 RTMed, [3] Jolicloud (A Netbook OS designed for the Cloud) Alpha-ed, [4] Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish, [5] Facebook let you change your username – Just one more time and the Byte of the week: Google Latitude for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Do click and check out their podcast.
July 28, 2009 by SGEntrepreneurs
The Actionscript Conference (TAC) is a community conference with the focus on Flash Platform. Attendants will see themselves immersed in a day of learning, knowledge exchange, and networking. TAC aims to bring topics on Actionscript 3.0, Flash development, Enterprise Flex 3 and 4, AIR, Integrating of Flash and other Platforms, and building Rich Internet Application to its audience. This year, the event will be happening on 14 and 15 Sep 2009, NTUC Auditorium, 1 Marina Boulevard Level 7 Singapore 018989. Here are more details for the event: Read more
July 28, 2009 by Wong Meng Weng
What is one of the important components in getting an expensive education in Singapore? Our contributor, Wong Meng Weng thinks that research skills are one of them and urges wannabe entrepreneurs to start exercising the skills which they learned from school. A Singaporean entrepreneur who has returned from Silicon Valley and now an angel investor within the community, Meng Weng hopes that his open letter will offer a guide to wanna-be entrepreneurs when they should set up a meeting with an investor. Read more
July 27, 2009 by SGEntrepreneurs
SE-ed Project is an online shopping website that gathers together wares by social enterprises. From gifts and accessories, massage appointments and even catering services, SE-ed Project will have it all. 1 August will be their launch party for the website.
“Social enterprises operate just like commercial businesses, but with a social mission, allowing underprivileged beneficiaries to gain a sense of self-reliance, dignity and confidence, through gainful employment.” – SE-edProject.org
