Singapore Entrepreneurs

So now there’s a legitimate way of obtaining free Microsoft software without having to scour the web for dodgy downloads! The name which all startups looking to reduce their R&D costs should know is the Microsoft BizSpark programme. Microsoft launched this international initiative for startups in Singapore, coinciding with Global Entrepreneurship Week, and has already signed up 12 startups and 11 network partners. [ Read More ]

(Singapore) Jorbb.com is Singapore’s newest site created expressly for non-executive jobs, for individuals seeking freelance, contract, part-time and casual employment. This innovative and uniquely interactive portal enables its users to not only post their resumes, but also photos, slideshows and video profiles. [ Read More ]

TYLER Projects was recently featured in my paper (8-10-2008) for making US$30K/mth from its Facebook game, Battle Stations. Since the launch of version 1.0, the game has increased its monthly active user base from 34,000 in July to more than 60,000. It has an average revenue is US $2 per daily active user (DAU); much higher than the average of US $1.20 per DAU for Facebook games. [ Read More ]

Singapore, October 10 2008. It was announced today that the Spirit of Enterprise (SOE) Awards will honour more than 43 entrepreneurs from a field of over 144 business owners hoping to drive Singapore’s future in a time of global economic uncertainty. A total of over 48,000 votes were registered for the candidates. [ Read More ]

1. Polytechnics, ITE colleges, junior colleges and secondary schools can now tap on a $4.5 million fund to develop programmes and activities to engage students in entrepreneurship learning opportunities. The Young Entrepreneurs Scheme for Schools or YES! Schools will be launched by Mr Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Minister in charge of Entrepreneurship at the Spirit of Enterprise Awards Ceremony 2008 on 10 October 2008. [ Read More ]

For immediate press release - BAK2u Pte Ltd releases Mobile Security Software that protects Blackberry Device & Companies. Companies risk losing competitive edge through stolen BlackBerry devices. [ Read More ]

From Redwood City, CA and Singapore - Septmber 01, 2008 - Progeniq Pte Ltd, a leader in reconfigurable computing applications, today announced the availability of RenderBoost Accelerated Engines for the CGI / VFX Animations industry, offering over 10x speedups for computationally intensive algorithms such as bkdTree Traversal, in a single low-cost accelerator that can scale up as computational requirements increase to offer computational power equivalent to over a hundred 2.4GHz CPU cores in a single 1U server. [ Read More ]

Little known fact of US-based Circos.com is that the company has a development center in Singapore. And if you had seen Circos prior to this relaunch, you would know how vast an improvement the new look and feel is compared with its previously clunky feel. The relaunch promises better and more personalized search results with the ability to search for restaurants and hotels by personality preferences. [ Read More ]

SINGAPORE, September 1, 2008 — Singapore-based Internet and Mobile commerce platform for global travel provider, UeeeU.com, today announced its plans to transform the online travel experiences using the web and the mobile phone. The company also announced an affiliate network of over thirty travel sites covering major regional markets across the globe. [ Read More ]

Hitchoo, one of our resident web start-ups that empowers you to discover new
people, easily, has just launched a new Facebook App known as Events Manager. Events Manager is modelled after their Hit-List concept on how auction-like mechanism to allow singles to arrange dates so much quicker. So do check out their new app. We also put a screenshot on how it looks like here:
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