Interview with Kok Choong Ong – Founder and CEO of Teliwave

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

After Mobile Alliance Meet-The-Members Session

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

Tech and Business Jobs at tenCube

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

SEO – The Icing on the E-Marketing Cake?

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

In Conversation with Wesley Oxenham, Co-founder and COO of PeekSpy

Local startup PeekSpy decided to tackle the global market first for their product, FanVenues, rather than start local. We sat down with one of their co-founders and COO, Wesley Oxenham, the younger of the two Mauritian brothers in the team, to have a chat to find out more about PeekSpy and FanVenues. Read more

Web Wednesday – Maximizing Returns in Digital – 29 Jul

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

Global Social Innovators Forum 2009 – 1-3 Oct

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

65Bits Episode 129: The 129th Episode

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.

The Actionscript Conference 2009

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

Entrepreneurs, please please please use your research skills

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

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