Exchanging namecards at conferences like Next Bank Asia is highly inefficient. Power networkers find themselves inundated with dozens of business cards, and sometimes it can be hard to remember their faces.
Beepmo, which has announced a partnership with Next Bank Asia, aims to make things easier. The mobile app, now available on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry, is a location-based professional social networking service that lets you see executives who are near you, send a message to them, and exchange contact details (read: Startups changing the events space). Read more
[a•mo•bee] Acquires Adjitsu – 3D Mobile Ads from Amobee on Vimeo.
Amobee, a US-based digital advertising company owned by SingTel, has announced today the acquisition of AdJitsu, the standalone 3D mobile advertising business unit of Cooliris.
This purchase enables Amobee to leverage on AdJitsu’s technology to create greater innovation in 3D mobile ads. Amobee will also collaborate with ad networks, premium publishers, brands and agencies to create 3D ad units. Read more
PricePanda, an online price comparison site, will be the next new business from Rocket Internet to land in Southeast Asia, according to Indonesia tech blog DailySocial.
Although the websites are not ready, the company has already reserved domain names for Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam.
DailySocial has also learnt that the service will launch once they have secured enough local e-commerce partners, which will supplement the Samwer Brothers-owned ones like Zalora and Lazada. Read more
Watching each startup deliver their pitch at the JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Demo Day, I get the sense of witnessing a child taking her first tentative steps or going to school for the very first time.
At the accelerator program, the first of its kind in Singapore, promising entrepreneurs, who had nothing but ideas, had to undergo an intense regimen of mentoring, training, and product development.
Mentors in the bootcamp came from all around the world as well as from Singapore, consisting of entrepreneurs who have gone through the whole agonizing process of creating a product people actually want.
Glancing across the room, amidst the glaring stage lights and about a hundred curious investors, those very same mentors are egging the startups on stage to succeed. The incubatees took turns to demostrate their products: Refined, refreshed, and in some cases, completely rehashed after the 100-day bootcamp. Read more
Hot on the heels of Reserveit.sg, a rival online restaurant reservation website in Singapore called Chope.com.sg has launched their own iPhone app.
It allows users to browse a list of restaurants, find out details like location, opening hours, and cuisine, and then reserve a table. The app was designed and developed by Burpple, a mobile social food journal that launched a few weeks ago.
It’s interesting that Burpple and Chope describe themselves as “mobile strategic partners”, and I believe we can expect more manifestations of the partnership to unveil in time to come. Read more
ShopSpot, the Singapore-based incubatee of the JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp, has annouced today that they have received funding of an undisclosed amount from a group of angels and entrepreneurs in Thailand, led by Kris Nalamlieng.
The company received the investment in the midst of the 100-day inaugural bootcamp. ShopSpot aims to make “selling stuff as easy as sending a tweet” (see SGE’s app feature). Since launch, they have garnered over 1,500 downloads on the iOS. Within 12 hours, the app reached number five in its category on iTunes.
“The cash element of this investment will allow us to focus on shaping the great user experience that will make ShopSpot a leading force in mobile commerce worldwide,” said Natsakon Kiatsuranon, co-founder and CEO of ShopSpot. Read more
5 days before the upcoming JFDI demo day for the JFDI-Innov8 bootcamp 2012, the mentors for the program were invited to hear the pitches from the 11 companies. All the companies have emerged from a tough and grueling hundred days where they had to make difficult decisions for their start-ups. They have come a long way and here are the interesting companies you should take a look at. Read more
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Playmoolah, a startup that has developed a money management game for children that ties them to real life and real money, has won the “Top Startup” title at the Innotribe Challenge showcase held in Singapore on 24th April, Tuesday.
The company will now advance to the Innotribe Startup Challenge finals in Osaka, Japan in October 2012 where it will compete for the US$50,000 prize. The Challenge is part of Sibos, the annual conference of global financial organization SWIFT. Read more
Kark Mobile Education, an incubatee at Singapore’s first ever JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp, announced that they have received funding of an undisclosed sum from Ideosource, a Jakarta-based investment firm.
The startup, started by four Indonesians, is developing a series of education collectible card games that interact with companion mobile apps. The edutainment platform is targeted at kids 5-12 years old (see SGE’s feature of Kark).
The funding will go towards the development of those products.
“We are delighted to have this support, which gives us the ability to continue building our product after the bootcamp and reinforces what we have believed all along– that games have a great future in the educational industry,” says Bullitt Sesariza, founder and CTO of Kark. Read more
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Mobile advertising has taken on a whole new level with Amobee, mobile ad platform company responsible for defining mobile advertising, announcing an exclusive partnership with AccuWeather, the world’s leading multimedia weather information source.
A division of SingTel’s Digital L!fe Group which focuses on creating new digital growth engines, Amobee offers comprehensive, end-to-end mobile advertising solutions and services for advertisers, publishers and operators worldwide while AccuWeather on the other hand, is an innovator in mobile advertising by making its mobile inventory, mobile applications and mobile web highly contextual by providing over 100 weather, lifestyle and location attributes for advertisers to choose from.
With its US$321 million acquisition of Amobee last month, SingTel has set its sights on expanding into the mobile marketing arena, especially in the area of one-to-one connections between brands and consumers. Read more
