In the News
The Real Group Announces SmartLoans.sg; Makes Shopping For Home Loans Easy
Earlier this week, local startup The Real Group announced the launch of SmartLoans.sg, the first-of-its-kind online mortgage comparison service for the Singapore market.
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...
[Causes] Asia Water-for-Life Project To Provide Safe Water For 100,000 Across Asia
The Asia Water-for-Life Project is a collaboration between Planet Water, J.P. Morgan, and Sesame Workshop that seeks to deliver clean, safe water and provide education on water-health and hygiene to disadvantaged communities in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia (Sabah) and the Philippines.
[Singapore] Far East Organization Unveils New SOHO Brand And Property
Singapore-based property developer Far East Organization today unveiled The Scotts Tower (TST), a new SOHO (small office, home office) property that is set to redefine work and living spaces.
Instagram And Pinterest New Social Media Stars: Experian
Global information services company Experian has revealed Instagram and Pinterest as the two niche social networks that has seen the most growth worldwide - both sites now feature in the top 20 social media networks used in Singapore, the UK and North America.
Significant Percentage Of Global Email Traffic Is Spam: Cloudmark
Research compiled from messaging threat protection service provider Cloudmark’s Global Threat Network places the United States as the top country in the world in terms of volume of email spam, followed by Brazil and France. Asia Pacific countries rated fairly low on the global scale when it came to volume of email spam sent, but they do exhibit a high incidence of spam among total emails sent.
NRF Seeking Incubators To Nurture High Tech Startups
The National Research Foundation (NRF) recently announced its Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS) to attract both local and foreign technology incubator investors to set up in Singapore and spur the growth of early-stage, high-tech startups here.
[Singapore] What You Googled This Year: Top Google Searches Of 2012
National Basketball Association (NBA) rising superstar Jeremy Lin emerged as the top personality Singaporeans googled this year.
Wonga Launches Fraud Hotline To Combat Phishing Scam
A common SMS and email phishing scam in South Africa is using the company name of the short term lender Wonga to defraud consumers.
Emarsys Adds Predictive Recommendation Technology To Boost Smart Online Customer Engagement
Customer engagement solutions provider Emarsys today official announces in Asia the availability of Predict, a self-learning, intelligent marketing engine that creates individually tailored recommendations to site visitors based on online behavior analysis and predictive technology that's built into its eMarketing Suite marketing dashboard product.
[Singapore] IBM, Microsoft And Accenture Most Desired Employers: LinkedIn
LinkedIn today revealed data showing that the top three most in demand employers in its network for Singapore are IT giants IBM and Microsoft, followed by consulting firm Accenture.
[US] Rutgers Partners H360 Capital And NJIT To Attract Tech Companies To Newark
Rutgers' Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, has announced a partnership with a minority-run early stage venture capital firm, H360 Capital, and NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center, to attract technology companies to Newark, New Jersey.
[Singapore] Local Telco StarHub To Launch Crowdfunding Platform Crowdtivate
Crowdfunding may be set to take off in a big way in Singapore as local telecommunications provider StarHub announced that it is set to launch Crowdtivate, an open crowdfunding platform which entrepreneurs and creative professionals can seek funding and obtain financial contributions from supporters around the region via a funding system in return for specific rewards.
SPRING Announces New Entrepreneurship Training Scheme for PMETs
SPRING Singapore announces an entrepreneurship training scheme to equip professionals and executives who aspire to be entrepreneurs with relevant skills to start and run a business.
41% Of Attack Traffic Originates From China – Akamai
According to data in the latest State of the Internet Report provided by Akamai Technologies, 56% of all malignant traffic observed by its customers - such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks - originate from the Asia Pacific/Oceania region, with China contributing a full 41%.
SAP Opens Its Fourth APAC Co-Innovation Lab In Singapore
German enterprise software company SAP AG yesterday launched its fourth SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) in Asia Pacific in Singapore, a space offering a hands-on environment for SAP, partners and customers to work together on current and future technologies.
[Infographic] Five Long Term Recruitment Trends In Southeast Asia: LinkedIn
According to LinkedIn's recently released 2013 Global Recruiting Trends Report, recruiting/sourcing highly-skilled talent named the most important priority for 44% of 141 talent acquisition professionals based in Southeast Asia who responded to the survey.
[Infographic][US] Small Business Scorecard April 2012: SurePayroll
According to SurePayroll's Small Business Scorecard - a nationally recognized economic indicator that tracks the health of the U.S. small business economy by compiling data from over 35,000 small businesses - for the month of April 2012 things don't look too flashy.
[Singapore][Infographic] Value Of An Average Singaporean’s Digital Content? $57,500.
How much do Singaporeans price their digital assets? According to a recent Global Digital Assets survey conducted by computer security software company McAfee, that value stands at $57,500 - almost the price of a BMW luxury car in the island-state
isocket Announces Series A
New Silicon Valley startup and advertising platform isocket announces the closing of a US$2 million early stage funding round from a group of investors led by Tim Draper at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
[Singapore] Westin Returns, Sets Up In Central Business District
Hotel chain Westin returns to Singapore with The Westin Singapore, a 305-room property located right smack in Singapore's Central Business District.
[Singapore] YES No Longer – ACE Replaces YES! Startup Scheme With ACE Startups
In a press conference today, the Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) as led SPRING Singapore announced the overhaul of the Yes! Startups (or Young Entrepreneur Scheme for Startups) scheme, which will be replaced by a new initiative called ACE Startups.
[Asia] HKers, Singaporeans Eye Higher Salaries: jobsDB
The recent in-annual jobsDB Asian Consumer Market Survey revealed that workers in Singapore and Hong Kong are becoming more ambitious and seeking out new, higher paying job roles, even in their later years.
[Infographic] The Startup Genome Project 2.0
Compass.co recently released the results of their latest 2015 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking (known previously as the Startup Genome Project), which ranks the top 20 startup ecosystems around the world. Here's an infographic version.
Metaversum Lands Red Herring Award
Metaversum, maker of 3D online world Twinity, has been awarded a Red Herring 100 Europe award.
[Infographic] The Need For Speed In Today’s Workplace
According to a recent survey sponsored by business application platform provider TrackVia, a whopping 84-percent of non-executive workers reported that they feel pressured - at least occasionally - to do their work faster.
Silicon Valley Tops, Singapore 18th On Startup Genome Ecosystem Ranking
According to Startup Genome's recently released Startup Ecosystem Report, Silicon Valley unsurprisingly emerged tops as the world's most successful startup ecosystem. Interestingly, Israel's Tel Aviv emerged as No.2, while Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Bangalore in India and Singapore also gets ranked on the list.
[Infographic] Net Worth: Tech’s Wealthiest Founders
How much are founders of successful tech companies they really worth? Our friends at RetailMeNot.com ranked the top ten hot technology startups, including Facebook and Twitter, in order of estimated value in an infographic.
Adobe Systems Rolls Out Creative Cloud Over Asia
Leading maker of multimedia and creativity software Adobe Systems today announced its plan for rolling out Adobe Creative Cloud across Asia.
How Oil Prices Are Trading On Binary Options Platforms Lately
Gasoline prices have greatly receded on the back of an oversupply of crude oil, slowing demand from China and the competition between Brent crude oil and WTI crude oil, among others.