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...

Recently, a very wise man gave me an invaluable perspective on Singapore’s long-term survival strategy. I’ve long acknowledged the ingenuity and foresight of the Singapore Government, but the government never ceases to amaze and leave me in awe time and time again. hostage c.1275, from O.Fr....

Earlier this year, on 28 March 2008, the Prime Minister of Singapore announced a S$350 million program to support a slew of initiatives and schemes under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), driven by the National Research Foundation (NRF). Out of that bunch of ideas, one of them...

Apparently, the folks over at SPH who gave us STOMP (Straits Times Online Mobile Print), the closest thing we have to citizen journalism, will soon be bringing to a lucky 100,000 viewers an interactive webTV service called Razor TV. Broadcast regular Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore today...