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12 November 2009

AWS joins the Data Centre party in hot sunny Singapore

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Salesforce.com did it earlier this year in July, adding to its already heavy presence in Asia Pacific (by way of its Singapore HQ) with its first international data centre in Singapore.  Now, Amazon has joined the data centre party, with its announcement that it will be extending the Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Asia, first to [...]

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6 October 2009

Post-TC50 chat with Ming Yong of Socialwok

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I was hoping to do this with Ming after he gets back from the US, but it seems his trip kept getting extended, thanks to the many ‘good stuff that’s going on’.  Still, it’s a good problem to have for (arguably) the hottest start-up in town right now, as the team rides the TC-50 inspired [...]

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16 September 2009

Socialwok wins TC50 Demopit, brings much needed sunshine to S’pore start-ups

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I just caught this over at Techcrunch – Socialwok wins one of the two highly coveted slots on the second day of Techcrunch 50’s demopit, where a grand total of 100 start-ups duke it out each year to catch the attention of the judges.  I’ve been tracking Socialwok since they first started, and have been [...]

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8 September 2009

Of Lee Kai-Fu’s new US$115m Investment Fund and NRF’s TIS

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Techcrunch was first to break it to the Western English-speaking world on 4 September, but had trouble deciphering the output from Google Translate *cackle*.  动力博客 Mobinode was next with their rumors (later verified) of Lee Kai-Fu’s new gig, an incubator for young Chinese entrepreneurs in the form of Innovation Works.  On 7 September, Lee Kai-Fu [...]

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6 August 2009

1st SG-Google Tech User Group Meeting

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The cool folks over at Google Singapore and Socialwok have gotten together to organise the inaugural kickoff meeting for the Singapore Google Technology User Group (SG-GTUG).  SG-GTUG plans to hold monthly theme-based meet-ups to talk about all technologies related to Google.  The theme for the 1st meeting are Google Web Kit & Google AppEngine.  The [...]

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6 August 2008

‘Deep’ Engineering: an Endangered species in Singapore?

I just got off a call with a certain Google executive looking at merger-and-acquisition opportunities in Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. Google tends to prefer deals that feed into search, traffic and user generation of content. After hearing about Google’s acquisition strategy, I found myself having to come up with something smart to say after [...]

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