June 30, 2011 by Terence LEE
Large enterprises, SMEs and startups in Singapore and Malaysia can now enjoy Office 365, Microsoft’s new cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite.
The service, launched on June 29, offers features like Office Web Apps, which allows users to view and edit Office documents, as well as the ability to integrate voicemail with email, calenders and contacts. Read more
June 30, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI) will hold the Regional Entrepreneurship Summit (RES) next month, 22-24 July. RES is officially hosted by the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia.
The theme of this 3-day summit is: “Emerging Entrepreneurs: The Next Big Chapter”. Eric Schmidt of Google, Jim Turley of Ernst & Young, Tony Fernandes of Air Asia, and Ananda Siregar of Blitz Megaplex are some of the prominent local and international speakers. Read more
June 30, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
Next month 15 July, Singapore Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) will organize a networking lunch. It is part of female entrepreneurship celebration where it will showcase 3 startups headed by dynamic women entrepreneurs. It also provides opportunities for early stage investing, networking deal syndication and business collaboration. Read more
June 30, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
Here you can find some interesting startup news around Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other their tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These listed news are taken from our partner, DailySocial, a leading blog on Indonesia’s tech startup scene. Read more
June 30, 2011 by Terence LEE
A light artificial kidney (left) that provides constant dialysis for patients with kidney failure, and a baby breath monitor that tracks the breathing patterns of infants when they are sound asleep; these are some Singaporean inventions that made it to the summit of The Wall Street Journal’s Asian Innovation Awards.
These products are the brainchild of Excelpoint Systems and Awak Technologies respectively.
The Awards, organized in partnership with Credit Suisse, aims to find and recognize up-and-coming innovations in Asia. Entries may come from individuals, small businesses, large corporations or academia. All 12 innovators will be featured on The Wall Street Journal, out of which three will win the gold, silver and bronze awards and one will clinch the Credit Suisse Technopreneur of the Year Award. Read more
June 30, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
ViVOtech, a software and hardware provider of contactless payment systems for companies like Google, closed their Series C funding recently, raising US$24 million (S$ 29 million) which will be used for growth and expansion as it is poised to make forays into more countries beyond the current 35.
Singapore’s EDBI, Singtel Innov8 and Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, which contributed to this round of funding, join Alloy Ventures, Citi Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurveston, DFJ Gotham, First Data Corporation, Miven Ventures, Motorola Mobility, Nokia Growth Partners and NCR as ViVOtech investors. Read more
June 30, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
If you attended the Mobile Money Summit, you might already know TransferTo, a provider of international airtime transfer services. They had an exclusive preview of their new mobile application on iOS and Android during Mobile Money Summit this week, 27-30 June.
Their app, called Mobile Airtime Smartphone, is the product of a partnership between TransferTo and DonRiver, a leading mobile payments consulting and application development firm.
It will provide a convenient way to transfer airtime internationally using a smartphone. Users can transfer small amounts of value in the form of prepaid mobile credits. For example, 15 minutes of airtime in US (at US$6) can be transferred to India for 250 minutes of airtime (at 200 INR) — more than 16 times the value, which makes it a low cost and high value complement to cash remittances. Read more
June 29, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
Aiming to invite 250 SME owners and business management personnel, Startup Visions will organize SME Visions 2011 next month, 27th July. The purposes of this event is to have business education and networking at the same time. There will be 3 speakers for this event: Mr Ng Cher Yew of Oceanus Group, Mr Patrick Liew of HSR Property Group, and Michael Ma of Indochine Bar & Restaurant Group. SGE readers can get S$10 off by quoting “SGE1106SUV” at registration form.
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June 29, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
On 20 July next month, Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) will hold their 50th ACE BlueSky Exchange. This is a dinner and networking session among entrepreneurs and industry practitioners who have contributed to make Singapore one of the best places to start a business. At this event, ACE will welcome the Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Mr Teo Ser Luck, as the new Chairman of ACE. Read more
June 29, 2011 by Terence LEE
Groupon rival LivingSocial has acquired DealKeren, a daily deal site in Indonesia, Ensogo, which owns DealKeren and has a presence in the Phillipines and Thailand as well, and GoNabit, a daily deals site operating in five Middle Eastern countries, it announced in a press release on 27 June. Read more
