TWIA Episode 20: Don’t leave your baby behind
March 18, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
Filed under Media, Technology, Web
The TWIA crew is back without Mike Foong tonight. We talked about a few events that rocked Singapore from the glitzy gala dinner for the SCS IT Leader Awards to the Google Analytics Masterclass happening in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. With investors centering in Singapore, we cover the Asian Business Angels Forum and iMatch Conference 2010 (with SGEntrepreneurs’ new event “In Bed with …” series. After that, we get back to the news of the day, with the Google-o-meter shifting to staying, Baidu’s shares dropped, the new iCity in Malaysia and finally the unfortunate incident of a South Korean couple leaving their real baby starve to death while nurturing a virtual one. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more
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In Conversation with Frank Levinson, Small World Group
March 11, 2010 by Bernard Leong
Filed under Featured, Innovation & Technology, Interviews, Technology
The Small World Group, managed by Frank Levinson and his partner, Dean Haritos, is one of the seven designated technology venture incubators from the National Research Foundation (NRF) TIS Scheme. The technology focus of this company is on clean tech, optics and materials and it has begun operations in Singapore to start working with entrepreneurs to bring new tech companies to market. We sat down with Frank Levinson, one of the partners in Small World Group and chat with him on several subjects, from how he started Small World Group to the type of entrepreneurs which the incubator will be interested to fund. He will also share some of the earlier success stories he has with regards to incubation of tech companies and talks about the future plans of the Small World Group in Singapore. Read more
65Bits Episode 159: What will Apple ban next week?
March 11, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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TWIA Episode 19: The Thai-Malaysia-Singapore Nexus
March 5, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
Filed under Media, Mobile, Technology, Web
Benjamin Scherrey, the Chief Architect from Proteus Technologies from Thailand joined us with the TWIA crew without our host John Lim. With Daniel Cerventus taking over the helm of the moderator, our discussion started with recent tech events such as the Google Android Developer Conference and the preview of Nokia N900 event. We continued with the growing numbers of Facebook users in Asia and chatted about Baidu’s new Hulu clone – Qiyi and also Plug and Play center’s entrance into Malaysia. Of course, we have Ben Scherrey sharing the story behind the Nexus Project, his thoughts on the Thai tech scene and how the entire Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore) are now going to swept by a new wave of foreign investments and mentors from all over the world. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more
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The Unexpected Customer – RI Adopts WizFolio, Software For Academics
March 4, 2010 by Gwen
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Sometimes a product you have built may have unexpected usages. For patent search and management software company, WizPatent, their third product, WizFolio, was developed with scientists and academics in mind. However, one of their latest clients turned out to be a high school – Raffles Institution. Read more
65Bits Episode 158: Barney Song
March 3, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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65Bits Episode 157: MeeGo-Ring
February 27, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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Decrease Performance Bottlenecks With Hiperware
February 24, 2010 by Gwen
Filed under Innovation & Technology, Technology
In industries that are heavily reliant on high-performance software, having everything run smoothly, efficiently and in tip-top condition is paramount. Having had the honours of being top six in the security technology international competition Global Security Challenge (GSC) back in 2008 meant huge validation in Hiperware’s performance-enhancing technology. Read more
TWIA Episode 17: What’s the buzz with Yahoo! & Baidu
February 18, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
Filed under Media, Mobile, Technology, Web
The TWIA crew gathers before the Chinese New Year on Valentine’s day with our typical ramblings with Google Nexus One and Google Buzz. Following on, we continue an interesting joint venture between Baidu (China’s top search engine) and Rakuten (Japan’s top e-commerce company), and examine their implications. Then we switched gears to examine why Yahoo! is doing well in East Asia and then do a quick discussion on Wireless SG, the continuing saga between Google China and the Chinese government and Paypal’s run-in with India regulators. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more
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65Bits Episode 156: 3 Strikes & you are out
February 10, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
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