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
Filed under Innovation & Technology, Mobile, News Stop, TechnologyTags: Innosight Ventures, kotagames, McAfee, Mig33, Mozat, one97mobilityfund, TenCube, themobilegamer
Darius Cheung, one of the Singapore Youth Awards winners and founder of mobile security firm tenCube, will be one of the speakers in Startup Roots Speaker Series this week, 14 Jul. Beside him will be James Chan, Investment Manager at Neoteny Labs and Co-Founder of Startup Roots Singapore, who will speak about Startup Roots “Going Global: The Future of Startup Roots”. Read more
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
The TWIA crew are brought together in Smithy’s place where all of us can have a great view of the Singapore city landscape. With wine and pizza, the crew discussed the news that dominate the Asian landscape – first with everything on Blackberry and their run-ins with the governments of Saudi Arabia and India, some thoughts on recent events from Mark Hurd’s resignation from HP to Google-Verizon’s Net Neutrality proposal and our friends in Hackerspace Hong Kong.
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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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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
Local mobile security company tenCube is having a very good run in 2010! Following on from the announcement of a strategic investment from Indian telecom apps service provider One97 to having its innovation acknowledged by China Mobile Research Institute, comes the news of tenCube making waves at two separate Silicon Valley events. WaveSecure, tenCube’s flagship product, was selected as the top product at the Plug and Play EXPO Spring 2010, and was tipped by Launch Silicon Valley as “Most Likely to Succeed”. Read more
For this week, the TWIA crew is joined by Serkan Toto, a special guest from Japan, who is the only Asia correspondent for TechCrunch. We diced and sliced through the news happening in Japan: (a) DeNA’s reported profits and its competition with Gree, (b) Google is now booted out of mobile search by NTT-Docomo, the largest telco in Japan with them adopting Goo, (c) the new mobile apps platform set up by various Japan handset vendors including NTT-Docomo, and finally, we have a Singapore start-up named TenCube making headway in China. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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tenCube, a local mobile security company, has just reached another milestone in their growth. In March, they were awarded a prize for Most Innovative Company in China Mobile Research Institute’s Innovation Competition, distinguishing themselves from the 110 teams and 150 submissions received from all over China. Read more
Seems like tenCube has not just made waves in 2009 when we last picked the mobile security company as one of the “5 Tech Entrepreneurship Events that Rocked SG in 2009″, but they also started out the new year with a big bang. Read more