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Singapore Press Holdings Eats Up Shareinvestor.com

Singapore's media powerhouse Singapore Press Holdings yesterday completed the acquisition of local web-based share trading platform Shareinvestor.com, founded by ex-doctor Michael Leong, for S$12 million and a...

Singapore Property Tycoon Gives S$5 Million, Encourages Technopreneurship

Local property tycoon Chua Thian Poh, who's head kahuna of Ho Bee Group and also president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI), gave...

RentSpace.sg Goes Live, Makes It Easy To Find Temporary Accommodation

The Real Group launches Rentspace.sg, an online full-featured map-based search engine that makes it easy for users find apartments and rooms for rent in...

IDMPO Makes It Ten With SiTF

The Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) today announced itself as IDM Research and Development Programme Office (IDMPO)'s new sleeping partner. SiTF will act as an incubator...

Zapoint.com – Talent Management Gets Zapped

Anybody who's worked in human resources and have sorted through hundreds of resumes from job applicants know how painfully tedious this part of the...

Time For Toilet Talk

Jack Sim, founder of World Toilet Organization. (Jim Orca, TIME) Jack Sim, a largely forgotten son of Singapore, is far more famous outside of our...

Singapore Best Place For Starting A Business – Again

The World Bank's "Doing Business 2008: Comparing Regulations in 178 Economies" ranked Singapore as the No.1 country for doing business for the second year...

Hibernater Announces Beta Trials

Local startup Hibernater today announced the beta launch of its virtual service which allows users to save and resume work profiles at any computer...

Twinity Announces Public Beta

3D virtual world Twinity has announced its public beta test phase. During this phase, Internet users can venture out and explore Germany's capital Berlin, the...

Expatriate Search Engine ExpatFinder Officially Launches This Week

Interexpat Pte Ltd this week officially launched ExpatFinder, the world's search engine for expatriates around the globe. Incorporating search technology from France's Exalead and Singapore's...

Early Stage Venture Funds Get Boost From NRF

The National Research Foundation (NRF) - part of the Prime Minister's Office - announced this week that it would be distributing some $60 million...

Singapore Is Less Liveable

Singapore's ranking in Monocle.com's "The World's Top 25 Most Liveable Cities" city guide has dropped to 22nd place in 2008 from 17th place last...

There Are Now Some 77,000 Millionaires in Singapore

This year's CapGemini and Merrill Lynch World Wealth Report puts the number of millionaires in Singapore at 77,000, a rise of 15.3 percent over...

Emerging from Under the Radar

CNET has a story on four new web publishing startups that recently featured at the Under the Radar Conference - music publisher AudioMicro, content tracking...

IBM Encourages CEOs And CTOs To Take The Bus…

What: The IBM Mobile Express, a retrofitted bus showcasing IBM's SME business IT solutions that will travel and make door-to-door visits to SME businesses...

Getting Sirius With Singapore SMEs

According to the Straits Times, Sirius Venture Consulting has announced a SGD$30 million venture capital fund targeted at helping Singapore-based SMEs to grow and...

If You’re an Entrepreneur, Rich And Foreign – We Want You!

Or at least this is what the Singapore government is saying. It's all about creating jobs though. Unfortunately it's got nothing to do with entrepreneurship.

Books Actually Has Moved!

Books Actually, a quaint bookstore run by Kenny and Karen whom we've interviewed before, is now at No.5 Ann Siang Road! They've added more than...

The Men in Uniform Gets It Right

  While the Prima Deli crisis continues to escalate over its recent salmonella poisoning incident, the guys in MINDEF actually gets it quite right dealing with their own...

Entrepreneurs Behaving Badly

  Local entrepreneurs have been getting into the news recently for all the wrong reasons. Over the weekend we read with fascination how entrepreneur Looi San...

11,660 New Millionaires In Singapore

It's official. According to this AsiaOne story, the annual Merrill Lynch and Capgemini World Wealth Report has reported that the number of Singapore millionaires...

The New Singaporean Entrepreneur

1. You are young (40% of you are aged below 40). 2. Educated (42% of you hold at least a bachelor's degree). 3. You prize individual...

Social Entrepreneurship in Singapore: Going Down the Toilet?

Social entrepreneur and chairman of the non-profit World Toilet Organisation, Mr. Jack Sim, is reportedly feeling so unappreciated by the lack of government support for...

Money No Enough? Wrong!

Surprise, surprise.  For local entrepreneurs who complain that it is difficult to get funding for their businesses, it would shock them to know that...