Next monday, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore will organize the Global Market Forum. During the session, the audience can gain valuable insights to formulate successful go-to-market strategies and also gain a valuable networking platform to explore business opportunities and areas of collaboration.
Event Details
When: Monday, 13th February 2012
Time: 830am-1230pm
Where: Mapletree Business City, Mezzanine Floor, Seminar Room, 20 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore 117439 (Map)
For more infomation, send an email to ida_ind_dev@ida.gov.sg.
Over 19,000 commercial buildings and offices since December 2011 have been hooked up to Singapore’s Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN), a government program to wire up the entire country with a fibre optics network that can provide Internet speeds of up to 1Gbps or more. Read more
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Singapore Computer Society is organizing a “Can’t Live Without Tech” contest where the winner will get a sponsored trip to Silicon Valley, an Apple iTouch, and S$2,000 (US$1,500) cash.
All participants need to do is upload a one minute video on YouTube that “showcases the importance of technology” in their lives. Read more
Next Thursday morning, Singapore-based start-ups that are keen to establish partnerships, strengthen connections, and expand their reach into the Japanese market, should attend this event. There will be managers of the Technology Seed Incubator and 6 start-ups from Aizuwakamatsu City who are here to seek partners. Each of them will spend 15 mins to pitch their product/service, followed by demonstrations. This event is part of IDA’s iSTART Programme.
Event Details
When: Thursday, 10th November 2011
Time: 10am-2pm
Where: Blk 71, 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-18, Singapore (Map)
RSVP by sending an email with details of Company Name, Contact, Email, Business Activity (product/service) – summarized in a paragraph, Remarks/Specify interest in meeting with any company (if applicable), to harville_tan@ida.gov.sg.
Companies who want to implement cloud computing can now receive a boost from the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore.
It comes in the form of tax deductions of up to 400 percent on up to S$400,000 (US$316,000) of qualifying expenditure incurred per year on each of six qualifying activities, which are: Read more
NFC could soon replace your wallet. Photo: Tom Purves
Singapore may become one of the first nations in the world to see widespread adoption of near-field communication as a payment mode, if this report by Channel NewsAsia is accurate.
Up to 20,000 retail points and taxis may be NFC-enabled by middle of 2012, the result of a S$40 million (US$31 million) investment by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and seven other companies.
They are: Mobile operators M1, SingTel and StarHub, payment service providers Citibank, DBS and EZ-Link, as well as Gemalto, a digital security company. Read more
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) issued a second call-for-proposal for its iSTART:ACE program. Enterprises selected will have up to 50% of staffing costs for up to a year co-funded by the government agency. The maximum grant amount per company is capped at S$250,000 (US$207,000). Read more
Quid, a San Francisco-based data collection and visualization firm, has received a Series C funding of US$10 million from an international slate of investors, some well-known (see press release). Read more
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Winners for the AppVenture Challenge, a competition organized by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore that recognized the best use of government data in a mobile app, were announced last week.
The Challenge, which aimed to get participants trained in mobile app development, also encouraged them to make use of some 5,000 datasets from 50 local government ministries and agencies, all available for developers on data.gov.sg. Read more
“Design can never be complete because design solves people’s problems, and people are constantly changing,” said Kevin Fox, a product designer of Mozilla Labs, in concluding the Rainmakers LIVE! 2011 mini-conference in Silicon Valley. Read more
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