News Flash: Geek Terminal on Time Magazine and Today

Of course, after their buzz in CNN, Geek Terminal has made headlines internationally and locally in the past few days. The restaurant is featured in “Grabbing a Few Bytes” by Mark Halper from Time Magazine and “A Geek in the Heart OF Singapore” in Today newspaper, Singapore. Of course, we present a few interesting excerpts from both articles.

From Mark Halper’s “Grabbing a Few Bytes”,

“Forget your neighborhood coffee bar’s piffling offer of free wi-fi. Walk into the Geek Terminal restaurant, tel: (65) 6557 0098, in Singapore’s central business district and they’ll lend you a laptop as well…..

Geek Terminal is where dotcom meets dining room, right down to aspects of its business model (those banner ads on the TVs fund the free wi-fi that customers enjoy). Co-founded by 36-year-old Lee and partners Danny Pang, Woon Keat Goh and Liza Abubakar, it officially opened in May but only after “beta testing” by invited guests over several weeks.

If excellent java and marvelous technology served inside a cyber cocoon sound like your thing, look out for more Geeks. Lee hopes to open in Kuala Lumpur by late this year, and soon thereafter in Jakarta, Dubai and London. Local restaurateurs probably won’t be too worried, but it’s time to let your neighborhood coffee bar know that the mere provision of free wi-fi isn’t going to cut it any more.

So are we going to see Geek Terminal (above picture from Today) like Starbucks in the other southeast asia countries? We look forward to hear from them on this. Now we come back to our local scene, from Today, “A Geek in the Heart OF Singapore”,

Geek Terminal is a place where you not only quench your thirst or fill up your belly, but also juice up your gizmos.
It’s an amalgam of a hotel business centre, an airport lounge and an Internet café. The only difference is that you don’t have to buy that obligatory cuppa, for the people there don’t hound you. …

According to Mr Lee, the four partners behind the Geek Terminal broke even on their $300,000 investment in just two months.

Word of this 3,000-sq-ft outlet has spread far and wide, driving media firms like Time magazine and CNN to feature it.

Of course, Christopher and Danny have sent SGE some pictures to let you know how Geek Terminal is like. They look forward to see more entrepreneurs, technologists and possibly investors around the area.

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