May 31, 2010 by Gwendolyn Regina T
E-commerce payment provider 2C2P (short for Credit Card Payment Processor) was declared winner of the Global Mobile Internet Conference 2010 Innovation Show held in Beijing, China, beating out 19 other finalists from Asia, USA and Europe. Read more
May 31, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
This week has been a major milestone for Southeast Asia that Yahoo has acquired Indonesian based start-up, Koprol, a social networking and location based mobile service similar to FourSquare. We interviewed Rama Mamuaya from DailySocial.net as he retraced the story on how he started using the service thru a private invite from the founders to the day where they announced the acquisition. He also share with us some of the background behind Koprol with respect to users and features and how the Blackberry has driven users to Koprol in Indonesia. As Rama is attending Echelon 2010, we asked him what he expects from the upcoming conference. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs.
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May 31, 2010 by Gwendolyn Regina T
More than a year after SmartLoans.sg launched, we now have SmartLoans.my – to serve our northern neighbours. SmartLoans is a free-to-use online mortgage comparison platform that enables users to easily search, compare and enquire about home loan packages available across different banks and must be making decent enough progress in Singapore for Vinod Nair, the entrepreneur behind it to expand to Malaysia.
Find out more about how SmartLoans works and of SmartLoans.sg closing an estimated SGD$30 million worth of loans over the past 6 months, with an average of 500k per loan.
May 31, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
The TWIA crew comes together before our co-host Michael Foong taking a hiatus for 3 months due to a very special piece of good news. While we announced the great news on the growth of TWIA and our special 50th episode that comes in the form of a live show in Echelon 2010, we do not forget the tech news that dominate the Asian landscape this week. Starting from the famous CHINICT conference in China, the crew proceeds to discuss the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S where the crew praised about the screen and followed on to discuss how Asians have managed to load the new version of Android OS – Froyo into their Nexus One. Finally, we discussed the most exciting news that rocked Southeast Asia with Yahoo acquiring Indonesia start-up, Korpol and whether location based services remained a hype from US to Asia. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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May 30, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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May 30, 2010 by Larissa THIA
iSyndica is a US based firm which was launched in May 2009. It is currently helmed by Seb Coursol, Gwyn Jones , Thomas Gorissen and Hugo Angelmar .
Hitherto, the company has managed to raise $400K of angel funding as part of its series A. Their 2 lead angels include Jayesh Parekh and Greg Blackwood, both of whom are experienced venture investors.
iSyndica is essentially a cloud-based digital media distribution platform which simplifies online selling by syndicating, promoting and tracking user content on multiple established channels. Their Upload Once – Sell Everywhere™ approach can be highly effective in helping users increase revenue while reducing workload. Read more
May 29, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
We all heard about the Hackerspace SG in Singapore set up by Meng Weng Wong last year. In conjunction with our special interview series, we invited Hugh Mason (@hughmason), one of the partners from the Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI Asia) to come and tell us about how their new venture incubator can make a difference for entrepreneurs by utilizing on the concepts of rapid prototyping and agile development to produce new lean and mean start-ups for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from Singapore to the region. Hugh also shares with us what he will be looking forward to in the coming Echelon 2010. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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May 29, 2010 by Larissa THIA
Local mobile media company BuzzCity released a new tool that helps businesses and blogs alike to create instant mobile friendly websites. Mobilizer (Beta) is a free service and is inclusive of free publisher support.
Upon signing up, users will obtain a unique mobile URL and QR code for display on their sites. Readers who have camera phones equipped with the correct reader software are able to access the sites by simply scanning the image of the QR code. This will cause the phone’s browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL of the site. Read more
May 28, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
For a one-stop to all events related to or concerning entrepreneurship, certain industry-meets-business 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 & founders, and meet & learn from CEOs of established companies who have seen it all.
Our aim here at SGE is to make it easy for you to pick & choose from the event buffet. Enjoy.
Here are the events for this week. Read more
May 27, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
Following our special interview series for Echelon 2010, Daniel and Chew Lin engages Nicholas Aaron Khoo (@geekonomics) from Nicholas Aaron Khoo (@geekonomics) from Singapore Cybersports & Online Gaming Association (SCOGA) and CNET to a conversation about online gaming in Asia. During the interview, Nic shares his experiences on the community work in the realm of online gaming through SCOGA, his thoughts on the panel “Social Gaming – How a Fast Rising Global Phenomenon is Developing in Asia” and what he will engage his fellow panelists on that topic and also the sessions in Echelon 2010 which he looks forward to. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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