Feature Story
Taking A Swipe At Location-Based Social Buying
Swipe is a location-based social buying application that allows you to tell your friends what you intend to buy, have bought, or find out what others are buying in the area around you.
CareerSquared.com Takes Your Career Search To Another Level
Washington, DC-based CareerSquared.com is a platform that brings together job seekers and qualified service providers and in an open self-service marketplace.
Play By Ear Music School Plays A Beautiful Tune
Play By Ear (PBE) Music School is currently the largest pop and jazz keyboard music school in Singapore. Founded in 2003 by Mr Andrew Yau when he was 23, the school has come a long way since in an incredibly short period of time.
Gaming Is Right Up Protégé Production’s Alley
Managing director of Protégé Production Janelle Lee shares with contributing writer Caroline Yeung on what inspired her - one of the few female technology entrepreneurs in Singapore - to develop games.
KAI Square – Securing A Future In Next-Gen Video Surveillance
KAI Square is a young Singapore-based technology company whose core business is providing solutions and services that revolves around mobile video surveillance and advanced video processing with analytics.
Manga Castle – Online Social Games For Manga Fans
Sylvia Yao and Wu Di are such intense manga and gaming enthusiasts that they decided to start Manga Castle, a social gaming company based on the Japanese style of comics and print cartoons.
Private, Invite-Only Online Shopping With Brandsfever
The recent hype over online group-buying Groupon has brought an avalanche of similar clones into the fore, but an upcoming online shopping site in Singapore is taking quite a different tack. We look at Brandsfever, a members-only, exclusive online shopping club.
Interview with Ong Kok Choong of Hoiio
Contributing writer Caroline Yeung talks to Mr Ong Kok Choong, CEO and founder of Singapore-based Hoiio about its internet telephony and messaging solutions for both consumers and businesses, across all smartphone platforms
G Element Builds Buildings in 3D
Contributing writer Caroline Yeung asks G Element’s business director Shinwe Yeow about the Singapore-based 3D digital software company's business and its expansion into the regional market.
Penn Olson on Social Media and Marketing
We talk to university undergraduates Willis Wee and Sarah Chong, the brains behind highly-influential Singapore-based social media and marketing blog Penn Olson, read by marketing practitioners from all around the region.
MyBankTracker.com Tracks Banking Products So You Don’t Have To
New York-based MyBankTracker.com provides a free, easy-to-use web portal that lets consumers rate and review banks, compare interest rates and learn more about the savings and investment options available to best meet their goals.
FlutterScape.com Makes Japanese Products Easily Accessible
Tokyo-based FlutterScape is a cross-border and cross-cultural social e-commerce platform that makes buying Japanese products easy and accessible.
BaseKit Takes Websites From Design To Live Without Coding
BaseKit is a new online platform that allows web design professionals to easily produce and publish websites without writing any HTML code.
A Live Chat With Royston Tay Of Zopim
Contributing writer Caroline Yeung sat down with Royston Tay, CEO and co-founder of Singapore-based startup Zopim, which created a live chat application for online businesses to talk to customers, to get to know more about the company.
GOODSTUPH, A Bad-Ass Social Influence Marketing Agency
The 'accidental creative rebel' of Ogilvy PR's 360° Digital Influence team in Singapore, Pat Law, is now the boss lady of her own little consultancy, GOODSTUPH.
MyAdEngine Helps Businesses Manage Their Online Advertising
Some of the biggest barriers to small businesses adopting online advertising to promote their products and services can be the sheer range of choices available, and the difficulty of understanding what works in the digital space. MyAdEngine aims to alleviate such issues.
Developer Focus: Dean Michael Berris
In this new series, we talk to programmers, developers and code monkeys on their latest projects and their views on the startup scene. First up is Philippines-based Dean Michael Berris.
Singapore’s Startup Scene – Once Lost, But Now Am foound?
The startup star of Echelon 2010 was undoubtedly mobile location-based social networking service foound, who wowed audiences and panelists alike during a startup launchpad pitching session at the web and technology event.
24seven Social Media Round-The-Clock
Dedicated social media consultancy 24seven Communications was started by three members of the Singapore social media scene hoping to fill in the gaps between marketing, advertising and public relations with social media.
Ezra Wube And Time-Based Painting
During the World Cup, Ethiopian visual artist Ezra Wube will painstakingly recreate each World Cup match - all 64 of them - on canvas using an art technique called time-based painting.
Insync Keeps Your Google Stuff In Sync
Not to be confused with the boy band N'Sync, Manila-based Insync is a synchronization platform for Gmail and Google Apps users that keep files in sync between computers, friends, coworkers and clients.
pepperconn’s Groupware Manages Your Social Media From End-To-End
One of the exhibiting startups at Echelon 2010 was pepperconn. We talk to Adrian Teo, founder of pepperconn, about his startup, entrepreneurship and his thoughts on the burgeoning social media scene.
YourAM Makes Managing Appointments Easy
YourAM is a web-based application build to automatically organize and manage business appointments in real time via the web and SMS, designed specially for small service-focused businesses that need to handle appointments for groups of people.
Muecs: Boy Scout Meets Foursquare
echelon 2010 is right round the corner, and we take the chance to catch up with Muecs, one of the technology companies that will feature at the upcoming web technology event.
VoucherWOW Rewards Collective Buying
VoucherWOW is a new Singapore-based startup that is looking to position itself as the website where visitors tap on the power of group-buying for the best deals in Singapore.
Gygan Lets You Store And Transfer Gygan-tic Files
For those of us who use file transfer services like RapidShare.com, YouSendIt.com or 4shared.com, here comes Oakville, Ontario-based Gygan.com.
LogoMyWay – Designers Do It Their Way
Columbus, Ohio-based LogoMyWay.com is a community site that revolves around client-commissioned contests for crowd-sourced professional logo designs.
Webklipper Lets You Klip Part Of The Web
Let's say you like the content on a certain web page, and want to share it with others. You can share its URL, but that wouldn't allow you to annotate or comment on it. Enter Webklipper.
Creately.com Reshapes Project Management
Creately.com is a project management tool with built-in features for built-in reviewing, easy collaboration, and comprehensive diagramming functions that helps teams manage and deliver their projects.
Entrepreneurs: OFO Says Save Money, Buy Used Furniture
Entrepreneurs who are starting out always look out to reduce costs. When it comes to setting up an office, OFO, a e-commerce site that trades in second-hand office furniture, believes it can help.