Social games analytics and pesonalization engine Sogamo raises funds from IncuVest

Sogamo, a Singapore-based real-time analytics and personalization engine for social games, has recently closed USD 500K in seed funding from Incuvest and NRF under the Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS). The funds will help ZelRealm, the company behind Sogamo, scale and market their product. Read more

TWIA Episode 52: Asia coming of Age?

Back to the studio after an exciting week from Echelon 2010 and the good news that we are recently mentioned on TechCrunch. Akky Akimoto, the founder of Asiajin.com is here with us this week as our special guest. The week could not have been better without Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 4 and another massive showdown between Apple & Google/Admob in mobile advertising. How do those events affect Asia? While Gree, Japan’s number 2 mobile social network is now casting its attention to US and China markets, how about Zynga who is turning their guns to India and China? If you think Google TV is really new, why not find out what has been happening between web and TV in Asia here, and finally, the Geeks on the Plane have declared Silicon Valley is just a state of mind & dying, is Asia really coming of age? You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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Social Gaming – Boom or Bust! 3 June

You developed your social game, early trials are going well and you are planning to publish in the social networking sites to attract the users. Next you’ve got to generate revenue, sustain and scale up your business! BUT you found that the social game you have developed lost the monthly active users. So, what’s next? Read more