For many parents, one of the biggest concerns about children joining social media networks such as Facebook and MySpace is the danger of meeting online predators. However instead of restricting children from signing up with such networks, LittleLives founder Ho Sun believes that a better solution would be to come up with a social media network created specially for children. The key point is that a teacher acts as a gatekeeper for the network. Read more
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. Events are mostly in Singapore (generally 30 minutes drive from anywhere), but we also include key events from around Southeast Asia and beyond. Read more
Started by three people with similar background in arts, online food portal HungryGoWhere had tough beginnings. The developer in the company at any time was the only technical person and thus dictated the web startup development. 4 years on and 16 people later, Hungry is leading the pack with its flagship site having inked a partnership with xinmsn, and spurned dedicated portals with HungryDelivery and HungryBBQ. Read more
In the implementation of his grand vision of unshackling users from “slum landlords” like Facebook, Singapore-headquartered company, MyCube has unveiled the first phase with open-source project, MyCube Vault, a backup service that allows users to aggregate their social media content from across the web and store it securely on their hard drive. Read more
For the first time since it started 4 years ago, the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge was brought to Asia Pacific. The competition closed November 1st and fifteen semi-finalists have been selected, of which 5 are from Asia. The judges looked at applications, business models, management teams, and use of AWS. Read more
The advent of online App stores is rapidly changing app distribution models and it’s interesting to see Intel upping the ante by partnering with big retailers like Best Buy, Dixons (UK) and Croma (India). Read more
You love playing around with new apps on your iPhone, but what is a growing pain for many users is that of apps discoverability. With more than 250K apps on the App Store and growing, it has become extremely difficult to find good and relevant apps. From iPhone mobile apps company, Bitsmedia comes Frenzapp (iTunes), that helps you discover and share your favourite iPhone apps with your Facebook friends. Read more
e27 will be holding another Founders Drinks, this time with Amiando’s Marc P Bernegger. Read more
Serial entrepreneur and investor Marc P Bernegger founded his first company at 16 and sold his second one, party portal Usgang.ch, to German listed media company, Axel Springer in 2008. Since then, he went on to cofound event ticketing platform, Amiando and also does seed investments through his own firm.
We will be chillin’ with Marc this coming Thursday at an awesome place famous for its roster of live bands, Timbre @ The Arts House and for its views along Boat Quay. Don’t worry, we’ll still be able to hear each other, and not have to shout too loud (we’ll sit further away from the band).
If you want to join us, check out details below and register (through Amiando, of course). We have closed registrations, for those who registered, see you Thursday! Read more
Using social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to conduct lessons and interact with students sounds very progressive on paper but how can you tell whether they are paying attention to you? If you are a teacher facing this challenge, good news: help is at hand. Read more
