TradeHero, a fantasy stock trading game with real-world implications, launches for the iPhone

We’re all familiar with fantasy football, where you pick a team, watch how their real-world counterparts perform, and see your team go up or down the rankings. TradeHero, a Singapore-based startup, is doing the same for stock traders.

This is a game that could help you make real money. The iPhone app, which just launched today, gets data from 14 stock exchanges, 45,000 global securities, and has 1,300 currency pairs. Users are given $100,000 in virtual currency, which they can then use to build to virtual portfolio.

From then on, it’s a race to the top. A leaderboard shows who are the most successful traders in the game, and they will be ranked by exchange, sector, monthly, quarterly, and overall returns. These top scorers will be called ‘Heroes’, hence the name of the app.

Here’s where things get interesting. Users can follow their favorite heroes for a small monthly fee, where they can receive stock tips via push notifications on their smartphones. The company will then split the monthly fees equally with the heroes. Read more

TNF Ventures pits investors and entrepreneurs against one another in mini-poker tournament in launch

One of the newly minted Technology Incubation Scheme-firm in Singapore, TNF Ventures is launching its fund with rivers and turns, it turns out. Mini-poker is the name of the game this 18th May.

TNF Ventures Launch

When: Friday 18 May 2012, 430pm – 7.30pm
Where: Media Development Authority, F11 Screening Room, 3 Fusionopolis Way, Symbiosis Singapore 138633 [Map]

Register for the launch here.

Poker Video Pitch Submission for Startups

The tournament is however, not open to all. Startups have to partake in a Poker Video Pitch Submission. In two minutes, you have to: “Tell us [them] your Compelling Technology-Based Innovation or Story and why YOU!”

Startups can then stand a chance of being selected to pit their poker face-reading skills against one another other!

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