I had alluded to the opportunity for the Singapore Government to turn crisis into opportunity and capitalize on the downturn to stimulate the entrepreneurial landscape in Singapore in an earlier post. One such window for our government to act would be during the upcoming Budget announcement scheduled...

My previous post on BuzzCity got me strolling down memory lane, and triggered a little inquisition into the ascension and demise of Singapore’s once-famous and respected Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL), otherwise pronounced as ‘Cradle’.Singapore pretty much missed the boat during the...

Irene Tham from The Straits Times reports that makers of popular 3-D virtual world Linden Labs will be locating its Second Life servers in Singapore. Singaporean and other Asian habitues of Second Life can look forward to a more ‘hyper’ experience in the popular 3-D social world. Their avatars...

I was on a taxi heading back to town after a board meeting at Yishun yesterday afternoon, and was privy to some ‘grassroot sentiments’ from my 61-year old taxi driver uncle that I thought I’d share and comment upon. The gahmen (poorly pronounced Singlish, read as government) will collect...

I picked this up off a forwarded email from a contact of mine - we both have been watching Singapore-based Garena for a while from a personal angle with much interest. The founding team are friends of mine, so I was very happy to learn that the Garena management team had raised $2M from Toivo Annus...

The East has been milking it for the longest time now - Nexon (of MapleStory fame) knows it very well, with 85% of its $230M revenues in 2005 coming from virtual asset sales. The majority of Silicon Valley poo-poohed the free-to-play model when it was first mooted, and had to eat its words sometime around...

It’s really hard to catch a falling knife without getting caught. I’m sure the recent whip-saw movements in Wall Street (and the resulting effects in global equity markets) have left many of you breathless, and hopefully none less worse the wear. Unfortunately, our friends over in the Valley...

I first caught sight of this on a note in Facebook by a friend, and was surprised by the tremendous amount of negative comments that resulted. Full letter over at TODAYonline. As far as I could tell, they came from a good mix of Singaporeans and foreigners. I republish some of these here. I am absolutely...

Back in early September, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) of Singapore held a pre-procurement briefing to a conference room full of vendors to announce its upcoming tender for its IT transformation project. Chief Information Officer Kwong Yuk Wah gave the group of 70-odd attendees a brief presentation...

I’m sitting in a conference room at the Suntec NUS Guild House listening in to Leslie Loh (of SystemAccess and NextView), and thought I’d pen down some of Leslie’s and my own thoughts and observations: Singaporean entrepreneurs need to learn to be better speakers. It’s really...

Industry veteran CHUA Kee Lock has officially (but silently) been appointed as Vertex Venture Holdings‘ (VVH) Group President and CEO today. He replaces Mrs GOH Mui Hong, who was concurrently President and CEO of ST Asset Management Ltd (STAM). Prior to joining VVH, Kee Lock was President and Executive...

VentureBeat reports that BuzzCity, a Singapore-based mobile advertising company has secured $10 million in financing from Naspers, a South-African media company, to grow myGamma.com into a credible mobile ad network to compete with AdMob. If you’d like to gain more insight, check out their corporate...

Ravi Veloo wrote in an article in Weekend Today, questioning the dearth of intellectuals in Singapore, and the resulting trickle of fresh, big, challenging (and probably hairy) ideas in our social scape. He worries about having enough brainy opiniated people to match our robust economy and to lead our...

Time & Venue Date: 1st Sept 2008 Venue: Singapore Management University Admin Block Level 5, Conference Hall 1 Time: 2.00pm-5.30pm (ETD), 5.45pm-9pm (i.JAMMING) Program Outline 2.00pm Registration for Education Technology Development (ETD) briefing 5.30pm ETD briefing ends 5.45pm Registration...