March 31, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
Mobile social communication company Bubble Motion has just raised a USD 10M (SGD 12.6M) round of funding led by SingTel Innov8, the communications giant, SingTel Group’s corporate venture capital fund. This round also includes IDA’s Infocomm Investments (IIPL), Sequoia Capital, Palomar Ventures, and NGC. Read more
March 31, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
Fresh from attending and exhibiting at South by Southwest (SXSW) in the US, mobile ad network Chalkboard just announced a partnership with Alliance Bank in Malaysia. Co-founder of Chalkboard, Bernard Leong (who also co-founded this site you’re reading) announced the news at a workshop for retailers he held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia two days ago. Read more
March 31, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
Good news for our Malaysian and Indonesian neighbours. Google’s Voice Search now supports Malay as spoken in Malaysia (Bahasa Melayu) and Malay as spoken in Indonesia (Bahasa Indonesia).
In addition to these two new languages, Spanish as spoken in Latin America was also introduced. Read more
March 29, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
South by Southwest (SXSW) was a BLAST. If you haven’t, you should check out my pictures in part one on SGE.
This yearly conference saw Music, Film and Interactive people descend upon Austin, Texas in the US for two weeks of panels, meetups, day parties (with beer), night parties (with beer x 10) and drunken networking revelry.
I was there to check out the conference, stalk the Singapore delegation, meet old friends and make new ones.
So let’s start with… Read more
March 29, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
SXSW 2011 is over. About 20K people from all over the world descended upon Austin, Texas (USA) for two weeks to experience the Music, Film and Interactive South by Southwest festivals.
This year was the first year that our tiny city state of Singapore had an official presence at SXSW Interactive (technology). Made possible by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) (the CIO of Singapore government), SXSWi saw several of our startups exhibit and pitch there.
SXSW has grown in breadth, depth and number of attendees over the past 25 years: check out this cool infographic. This year was my first time there, as with most of the Singapore delegation. Here are some photos! Gorge yourselves. (Part 2 here.) Read more
March 28, 2011 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. 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
March 24, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
The first BizSpark Startup Night for 2011 will take place this 29th March, with the focus being on Cloud Computing. The speaker is Chris Ismael, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Singapore. Read more
March 23, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
The latest installment of Developer Garage will be taking place on the 25th of March. Development Garage seeks to provide a channel for developers to share experience, trends and insights on developing and commercializing sites and applications on mobile Internet. In this series, join other like-minded individuals to explore the potential that mobile Internet unleashes. This session, Developer Garage has partnered with the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF). Read more
March 23, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. This Saturday will see TEDxNTU being, where x = independently organized TED event. Our very own Isaac will also be speaking! Find out more about the speakers and the full agenda. Read more
March 22, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
Founder of hardware startup Really Solid Technology, Rick Sheridan, reflects on his experience at INSEAD, the world’s top-rated 1-year MBA program. Read more
