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
Australia Radio National recently did a radio program on e-books at the Brisbane Writers Festival. Of the four panelists, only one actually owned an electronic book reader. A number of benefits were cited of e-books, including convenience of purchase, lower book prices (especially compared to the prices of printed books in Australia), and better access from rural locations.
However, the overall impression was that printed books and traditional bookstores will continue to exist for some time. Read more
McAfee, the security juggernaut, has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire Singapore-headquartered mobile security firm, tenCube, with the acquisition expected to close within the month. We have been covering tenCube since the company first won Start-Up@Singapore (2006), to launching WaveSecure (2007), to chatting with tenCube CEO Darius Cheung at a Nokia summit (2009) to its most recent accolades in Silicon Valley. This time, we are happy to have received news about this pending acquisition. Read more
Professor, consultant and longtime angel investor, Prof Wong Poh Kam is an industry veteran. As an angel investor, he has invested in many high-tech firms and sits on the boards of many. He is also the Director of the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre and holds positions at the various institutions and consults widely for international agencies such as the World Bank as well as many high tech firms in Asia. Prof Wong was recently at OpenWebAsia 2010 (held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) to share his thoughts on cross border angel investing.
Here’s an interview: Read more
Unified Communications (UC) solutions company, Consilium Software has just raised an undisclosed round of Series A funding from JAFCO Asia.
Headquartered in Singapore, Consilium has operations in India, Taiwan, Canada and Southeast Asia, having acquired a customer base in more than 30 countries.
With the funds, Consilium plans to move its UC solutions for enterprises and contact centers towards an Software-As-A-Service model to ease the adoption of UC applications, including multi-channel, multi-site contact centers, that were previously associated with high cost and complexity.
Pramod Ratwani, President and Executive Chairman, Consilium Software, said that, “This investment and backing from JAFCO Asia will enable us to further accelerate IP creation and product development, grow our managed service model into a disruptive technology, and bolster Consilium’s position as a dominant player in the Asia Pacific and globally. Consilium’s SaaS (Software as a Service) offering backed by our robust support, strong consulting and software professional services, and international reach will offer unique value to customers.”
Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape with their thoughts [1] iPhone 4, [2] Nokia N8 to be final Symbian N Series device, [3] Palm files 8-K with SEC on merger, VP of PR Lynn Fox leaving, [4] Adobe Flash gets its full launch on Android, [5] HTC Hero Eclair 2.1 Release in Singapore. Note that the Tech65 are catching up with editing and publishing new episodes for listeners and do bear with them. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more
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Starting off with congrats to Mike Foong with his 4th kid, Myra Ines Foong, the TWIA crew is back to discuss the interesting stories that dominate the Asian mobile, web & tech landscape this week. While we look back at Open Web Asia Conference & Google Dev Fest in KL, we also discussed interesting stories covering from iPads selling out in Singapore to an Asian company called Bubble Motion funded by Sequoia and how it’s kicking ass in India. If you are not impressed, then the gaffe from MOL CEO, Ganesh Kumar Bangah on his rival OffGamers’ FB page surely hits the most entertaining story of the week in Asia. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape with their thoughts [1] Nintento 3DS, [2] Playstation Move (Check out Episode 160 too), [3] Microsoft Kinect, [4] Apple relaxes iOS SDK terms to allow Lua but block Flash and [5] ‘G’ mail for all govt e-mail. Note that the Tech65 are catching up with editing and publishing new episodes for listeners and do bear with them. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more
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If you are reading SGEntrepreneurs, you are probably already partial to startups, perhaps having founded one yourself or are working in one.
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If you are looking for a job as a developer, programmer, or you want something in business development, sales, or perhaps you are a designer and looking for creative jobs, check out these newly listed open positions at these diverse startups. Read more
As a prominent Asian brand, HTC has been producing mobile handsets with three different platforms: Windows Mobile, Android & Qualcomm’s Brew OS. What is the roadmap and what may be the new phones coming out in the next quarter? With Melvin Chua, the country manager from HTC Singapore, we discussed all these issues together with the adoption of the various mobile platforms and whether the new explosion of Android handsets have an impact in the smart-phone market. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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