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By: The Singapore Daily » Blog Archive » Weekly Roundup: Week 49

The Singapore Daily » Blog Archive » Weekly Roundup: Week 49 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:01:34 +0000

[...] Ian On The Red Dot: Welcome To Singapore … Here’s How We Don’t Do Business – SGEntrepreneurs: RIP CrunchPad [Thanks BL] – Icarus Flew Too High: “Haven’t I Seen This Somewhere Before?” – Ian On The Red [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:41:32 +0000

Very interesting. There are implications here for how Singapore is perceived by the rest of the world. As a European a lot of people I work with are terrified of doing business with China due to the fear of IP being taken. People also wrongly associate Singapore with China. Put simply Singapore=China=stolen IP gets reinforced.

I personally had two immediate (unconsidered) reactions on first reading. Fusion Garage comes across as inexperienced and naive of the rules, which I automatically apply to Singapore in general. At the same time Mike Arrington writing about the problem in such a public way also comes across as unprofessional, it will be interesting to see what happens next.

By: This Week in Asia Episode 5: The CrunchPad Disaster - This Week in Asia

This Week in Asia Episode 5: The CrunchPad Disaster - This Week in Asia — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:40:35 +0000

[...] between Mike Arrington and Fusion Garage: We looked at the whole story with BL’s take in RIP CrunchPad from SGEntrepreneurs. We also discussed the possibilities on why Fusion Garage decided to pull the [...]

By: Gwendolyn Regina T

Gwendolyn Regina T — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:06:24 +0000

thanks for catching that.

By: Grammar Police

Grammar Police — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:48:43 +0000

I know every tech-blog aspires to be the next TechCrunch by publishing sensationalist stuff and tow the line of Mike Arrington. There is hardly any time to do any fact-checking or investigation. "Must..publish..now" must be the only thought going through the writer's brain but c'mon this is embarrassing:

"Shareholders on Fusion Garage does not want to work with Mike Arrington & TechCrunch:"

It's "Shareholders *of* Fusion Garage *do* not want to work with Mike Arrington & TechCrunch"

Your friendly neighbourhood grammar police

By: The Singapore Daily » Blog Archive » Daily SG: 2 Dec 2009

The Singapore Daily » Blog Archive » Daily SG: 2 Dec 2009 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:38:27 +0000

[...] Ian On The Red Dot: Welcome To Singapore … Here’s How We Don’t Do Business – SGEntrepreneurs: RIP CrunchPad [Thanks BL] – Icarus Flew Too High: “Haven’t I Seen This Somewhere [...]

By: AA

AA — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:26:28 +0000

what a stupid decision! It total destroys the name of “Singapore”……

By: aaronkoh

aaronkoh — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:17:22 +0000

The CrunchPad is quite an interesting idea from a communications point of view. You have actually have a media publisher launching their own hardware instead writing about hardware from other vendors.

Would the CrunchPad succeed? I would say yes. Techcrunch has become such an online media powerhouse that it could use their own medium to create the marketing they need to make the Crunchpad a success.

Even if the CrunchPad failed, Fusion Garage would be well-known for taking up such an endeavour. Now, it has made Chandra and the incubator infamous.

The biggest problem for Fusion Garage and Chandra is that Google is like an elephant, it never forgets.

By: Budding CEOs - Inspiring lives

Budding CEOs - Inspiring lives — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:23:56 +0000

If I had TechCrunch on board…

Today’s grim news involves a start-up that’s based in Singapore. On the crux of a major and likely successful worldwide launch of crunchpad, a web tablet that allows you to get online without an OS, Techcrunch partner, Fusion Garage pulled …

By: Michael Cheng

Michael Cheng — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:19:22 +0000

Some smart-ass, 2-bit know-it-all mouthing off at shareholder meeting perhaps?

This impatience seems to suggest that fella (or fellas) are either first-time investors, or got burnt badly in the real-estate bubble / financial melt-down (Leiman Brothers, et al) and in need of liquidity.

Or a government-linked entities panicking for results given the recent play-up of non-performing govt-funded startups.

Who knows. Agree that its all bad PR… but hey, if they can manufacture and sell in East Asia… why not? More power to you… just that perhaps you'll get knock-off by the dozen within 3 months. You'll need every marketing muscle you can get to flood the market – that goodwill which they have lost in North America – a huge market.