In Conversation with Bob Turner, Singapore Slingers & ASEAN Basketball League

Running a sports league in Singapore is a challenging enterprise, given the market being small and also difficulty in bringing in the audience and sponsorship for the matches. Bob Turner started his career as a basketball player, moved on to become a coach and then expanded the Australian National Basketball League to Asia. In the process, he set up the Singapore Slingers team with considerable amount of success as a private enterprise and got them to compete in the Australian League for 3 years. Now together with Tony Fernandes from AirAsia, he pioneered the Asean Basketball League that started this year with the games telecast on ESPN. While watching an exciting Asean basketball league match recently, we sat down with Bob who tells us of his excitement in running a basketball team as a sports enterprise and the challenges ahead to maintain a basketball league for ASEAN. Read more

Executive Summary Workshop – Ideas, Innovation and Purpose

What is an idea? When does an idea become an opportunity? What is innovation? What is the purpose of innovation? Is entrepreneurship merely about tangible, monetary outcomes? Can starting a business lead to satisfaction in one’s life? How does one begin a business? What is the most fundamental requirement in starting up a venture: Guts? Money? Education? Team? Read more

New Technology Incubation Scheme To Fill 6-digit Funding Gap

In another move by the government to make up for the dearth of funds in Singapore, the National Research Foundation has issued a Call for Proposal for the new Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS). Modeled after Israel’s Technological Incubator Programme, NRF will co-invest up to 85% or S$0.5 million per startup, with an appointed incubator investing the rest (at least 15% of the total investment). Read more

Code Android July 25th Meetup

The Google Android Developer/User Group Singapore is a developer group for Android users. The aim is to get users and developers to learn more about the platform and share knowledge of what they know. They are organizing the 3rd CodeAndroid meetup which will be held in Google Singapore, 35th floor of Temasek Tower, 8 Shenton Way on 25 July 2009, 2pm. Please RSVP at this URL. More details can be found here Read more

65Bits Episode 125: Month of Smartphones 4 – Google Android

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] Windows 7 Upgrade Options, [2] Tiny SG made MP3 Player Easy on the Wallet, [3] Amazing UK Plug Design, [4] Adsense Comes to Mobile, [5] MJ’s Death Brings Down Several Websites, [6] Android Discussion – HTC Hero, and Byte Of the Week: H1N1 Mask App. Do click and check out their podcast.

In Conversation with Dr Gang Lu, MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia

Recently, during the E27 Unconference 2009 event, Gang Lu, the founder of MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia, came to Singapore and participated in a panel about “Innovation in Asia”. With an interesting background of working in an European company, Netvibes.com, he has recently moved back to Shanghai. So, we managed to catch him for an interview and have him to tell the story behind MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia workgroup, and some of the interesting trends happening in China, and some tip for the Singaporean entrepreneurs on how to move to China. Read more

21 TECS Winners, Total Of 38

In this second batch of award announcement, 21 new winners brings the new total of TECS awardess to 38. From over 220 submissions, these 21 were selected based on their commercial potential, scientific and technical strengths, cost-effectiveness and impact of their projects. Read more

The Creative Crew June 2009 Meetup: Into the Code

The Creative Crew Singapore June 2009 Meet Up: “Into the Code” will be held on 20 June 2009 (Saturday) in Bukit Merah Community Library at 2.30-4.30 pm, Creative Crew (FB Group) has the aim to share and spread techniques and tutorials for both Print and Video using Adobe software. You can RSVP for the event in their Facebook Event page or register online here. Read more

65Bits Episode 119 : Freshly Squeezed and MmMMM Good

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] We’re on Engadget!; For Refresh! section: [2] HTC Magic, [3] Exchange-enabled HTC Magic explained: it’s not a “with Google” phone, [4] HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries because of fire hazard, [5] Acer Aspire Timeline, [6] Ubuntu1 is in beta now, [7] Google goes down, [8] Microsoft vs Apple Ad wars, [9] End of NextBus? [10] Singapore TweetUp; Stories : [11] Recycling Electronics in SG, [12] Ideas for Code Extreme apps? and the Byte Of The Week: VLC. Do click and check out their podcast.

The Creative Crew May 2009 Meet Up

The Creative Crew Singapore May 2009 Meet Up will be held on 12 May 2009 (Tuesday) at Tampines Regional Library, Creative Crew (FB Group) has the aim to share and spread techniques and tutorials for both Print and Video using Adobe software. You can RSVP for the event in their Facebook Event page or register online here. Read more

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