This geek has been following with increasing interest how banks operating in Singapore are innovating to better serve their customers in this day and age. From OCBC’s credit cards with personalized designs, UOB’s mobile cash (Barclay’s just announced their mobile cash service this week too), banks like Standard Charter Bank (SCB) have been innovating hard to improve their offerings.
They’ve recently well-received Breeze iOS app, which unfortunately cannot be used by corporate customers, and announced a 1.88 percent per annum return on your current account up to a maximum of S$25,000, under the Bonus$aver‘s scheme.
That is substantial, especially in a time where local interest rates are much lower (you can check how SIBOR rates have dropped over here). This geek was curious to find the catch. Read more
Filed under Businesses, Innovation & Technology, Retail, Special CommentaryTags: bank, banking, Bonus saver, Bonus$aver, business banking, business banks, Innovation, scb, singapore banking, singapore interest rate, standard chartered
Depending on who you ask, Singapore is either one of the most innovative countries in the world or underperforming in that aspect.
The 2011 Global Competitiveness Report by the World Economic Forum clearly thinks Singapore falls in the latter category. While it scores highly for lack of corruption, government efficiency (1st for both), and infrastructure (3rd), it lags behind for adoption of latest technologies (10th), measures that support sophistication of companies (15th), and capacity for innovation (22nd). Read more
You have read about the HackerSpace initiative set up by local technologists and entrepreneurs. They have also included a promotional video so that you can now exactly what the whole idea of hackerspace is about. So, enjoy the video and see if you would be part of the new technological & innovation landscape in Singapore. Read more
Are you passionate about technology? Do you want to turn your idea into a prototype? Are you interested in meeting people with similar interests and curiosity to test new ideas? Chua Ruiwen, Wong Meng Weng, Luther Goh, and Justin Lee talks about a new initiative Hackerspace SG that they have put together that involved all technologists, entrepreneurs, innovators and developers. Read more
We all hear about the inspiring and brilliant TED videos where inventors, thought leaders and social activists give a scintillating 18-20 minutes speech about their own topic of interest. While the talks about social media, politics, economics, language, design, architecture and many more gave us much food for thought, there are interesting TED demo videos which give us a glimpse of future technologies and what is going to come. We start with a series of interesting demos from how one can synthesize a three dimensional structure using a set of images (coming out of Microsoft Research), a new type of GUI desktop interface for operating system and lastly, wireless electricity and how we can get our phones charge without wires. Read more
September 26, 2009 by SGE
Recently, Chris Evdemon (board member, BANSEA and partner, Eastern Bell Venture Capital) gave a interesting presentation about starting up in China. Being experienced in both Singapore and China markets, he has decided to share another presentation entitled Dimensions of Innovation in Entrepreneurship which he delivered in a university in China. The presentation offers general advice for entrepreneurs starting up their company based on the 5P’s principle (preparation, patience, persistence, persuasion, productivity). Read more
Talking in generics regarding survival in a recession is useless without some numbers to back it up. Seeing exactly how much you saved (NOT) doing this or that provides you with visible encouragement to continue your cost-cutting ways. Here, we have guest contributor, Roshni, founder of Singapore-based TheAsianParent.com, share some of the ways they have cut costs and their corresponding savings. Read more
Kudos to the E27 team, the Unconference Singapore 2008 held in Matrix, Biopolis had been a fantastic and well-organized event. It had an overwhelming turnout, hitting between 200-250 people. From a surprising excellent keynote from Daniel Ingitaraj (Director, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft) to the enthusiastic pitches from many start-ups in the event, it was a gathering of many enthusiastic minds for a growing and emerging Internet industry. Read more
Filed under EventsTags: E27 Unconference 2008, Eteract, Go There, Hibernator, IDA, Innovation, Microsoft, Singapore, Web 2.0, Widegous, widgeous, Yum.sg, Zopim
Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: (1) More iPhone Talk, (2) Apple Introduces iPhone 3G Videoconferencing Kit, ZOMG!, (3) EFiX: OSx86 with a twist, (4) Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop, (5) Yahoo ends all talks with Microsoft, shares plunge, (6) Britain Launches Final Real-Life Skynet Satellite, (7) Opera 9.5 Brings Speed and Syncing to the Browser, (8) Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued and Byte of the Week : Firefox 3 to Drop on Tuesday. Do click and check out their podcast.
Filed under Innovation & Technology, MediaTags: Air, E Slim, Firefox 3, Google, Google Browser Sync, Innovation, iPhone, Microsoft, Singapore, Skynet, Tech65, Technology, Yahoo
