Singapore-based TheMobileGamer raised S$1mil from One97MobilityFund

Mobile games developer TheMobileGamer (TMG) has raised S$1 million in second round funding from sole participant One97MobilityFund, reported Penn Olson.

TMG’s games can be found at mobile social networks mig33, kotagames.com, and Mozat. With the investment, they aim to produce 10 more mobile games and acquire 2.5 million more users. Read more

tenCube founder Darius Cheung wins Youth Award

Darius Cheung, founder of mobile security firm tenCube, is one of four individual winners of this year’s Singapore Youth Award.

The Award, started in 1975, is Singapore’s highest recognition for under 35s who have excelled in areas like entrepreneurship, science, and the arts. Read more

TWIA #62: O Smithy, Where art thou?

Yes, everyone is checking out on Smithy’s location these days. Yet, the news of the week from TenCube being acquired by McAfee to Google’s foray into China & Japan dominated the Asian landscape for web and tech. The TWIA crew starts off their chat about the future of Android in China & thoughts on the future of Southeast Asia tech scene with Daniel coining his term “Silicon Straits”. Of course, you won’t want to miss our crew’s famous discussion on “who wants to guess how much this company is acquired for”. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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tenCube To Be Acquired By McAfee

McAfee, the security juggernaut, has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire Singapore-headquartered mobile security firm, tenCube, with the acquisition expected to close within the month. We have been covering tenCube since the company first won Start-Up@Singapore (2006), to launching WaveSecure (2007), to chatting with tenCube CEO Darius Cheung at a Nokia summit (2009) to its most recent accolades in Silicon Valley. This time, we are happy to have received news about this pending acquisition. Read more

65Bits Episode 149: Look out the window

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] MediaCorp to discontinue TV Mobile from next year, [2] New rules cap telco contract duration at 24 months, [3] McAfee uncovers riskiest domains, [4] Twitter Has Been Hacked, [5] Nexus One finally caught on video and [6] Gothere.sg. Do click and check out their latest podcast here.