Singapore Entrepreneurs

Little known fact of US-based Circos.com is that the company has a development center in Singapore. And if you had seen Circos prior to this relaunch, you would know how vast an improvement the new look and feel is compared with its previously clunky feel. The relaunch promises better and more personalized search results with the ability to search for restaurants and hotels by personality preferences. [Read more]

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1]Tech65 conducted a Podcasting workshop at Science Center, [2] Geek Terminal launches new membership scheme “Geek Pass” using RFID and eGrips, [3] A New ‘park and ride and shop’ smartcard to replace CashCard in Singapore, [4] Widgeous launches a Developer network, [5] The Dangers of getting an iPhone without a data plan/pack, [6] Mozilla Labs launches Ubiquity, [7] IE8 Beta is announced and Byte of the Week : Twiddla. Do click and check out their podcast.

Recently, I was invited to deliver a seminar about innovation and writing executive summary to a group of university students in NTU for two consecutive weekends. Somewhere in the midst of trying to put some pragmatism into the minds of people who are planning to become entrepreneurs, I made this comment about the four most important people that an entrepreneur must have in their lives. As I thought about this again, I realize that there are actually 5 important people that an entrepreneur must have in their lives. Let’s start with my list: [Read more]

SINGAPORE, September 1, 2008 — Singapore-based Internet and Mobile commerce platform for global travel provider, UeeeU.com, today announced its plans to transform the online travel experiences using the web and the mobile phone. The company also announced an affiliate network of over thirty travel sites covering major regional markets across the globe. [Read more]

Hitchoo, one of our resident web start-ups that empowers you to discover new
people, easily, has just launched a new Facebook App known as Events Manager. Events Manager is modelled after their Hit-List concept on how auction-like mechanism to allow singles to arrange dates so much quicker. So do check out their new app. We also put a screenshot on how it looks like here:
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Press Release - 1 Sep 2008 - SGEntrepreneurs has launched in a new format. This new look is brought about by Ian Timothy who is joining our Editorial Team in a new role, which we shall unveil soon. Nevertheless, we thought a new look might freshen things up for us and we promise that more things will be coming up soon from us, from the perspective of new content and categories. At the moment, we will be slowly working to put the features back on the sidebars, for example, the RSS feeds from our friends in E27, The Digital Movement and Malaysia Entrepreneurs and other features which we need on our site. We continue to look forward to your support.

Before the gathering in Barcamp Malaysia, an interesting meeting happened between Daniel Cerventus, the main organizer of Barcamp Malaysia and BL, our editor in SGE here in Singapore (who also happens to be one of the organizers for Barcamp Singapore II). After an interesting discussion, both editors felt that it is necessary and win-win for people in both countries to collaborate a lot more on grassroots level in the realm of entrepreneurship, venture capital and technology innovation. At the same time, Daniel is preparing for the launch of the Malaysia Entrepreneurs blog while organizing the barcamp. A successful Barcamp Malaysia event brought the technologists, entrepreneurs and investors from both countries together. It is of no coincidence that something is borne from that meeting. SGE is pleased and honoured to announce that the Malaysian Entrepreneurs blog is finally up and running. To enhance cooperation between Malaysia and Singapore in the grassroots level, both blogs will start off with an initial joint collaboration with syndicating the news between both blogs and at the same time collaborate more on cross country level in related entrepreneurial initiatives in technology entrepreneurship. Our team in SGE wishes our friends from Malaysia Entrepreneurs good luck on their new initiative and we look forward to interesting times of collaboration with our counterparts.

Now that Yahoo! Auctions has retired, some of our local boys have come up with ChupR - an online auction site to help you fulfill your buying or selling fix. It brings you many of the familiar features of what an auction site should do like building up your reputation as a buyer or seller, shopping for the best prices for your product and starting up your online business. While currently they allow only the standard auction mechanisms, in their words, “there are a lot of possibilities for Chupr in the future (online shops, trading .. etc) but as a start it’s about user, user, user!” So check out the site and leave your feedback here for them.

Introduces revolutionary stickkey® RFID as membership card. First organization to use Singapore-developed technology to replace traditional plastic membership cards. 26 August 2008, SINGAPORE – Geek Terminal, the world’s first business café, today launched its inaugural membership programme aptly called the GEEK PASS, a non-traditional stored value membership card that allows members to purchase food and beverages at Geek Terminal. Adopting state-of-the-art technology, The Geek Pass is an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip embedded into a small, non-slip adhesive sticker which serves a dual purpose – a non-slip surface for the object it is stuck onto and a membership card which collects information on individual members’ F&B preferences. [Read more]

Singapore, August 26, 2008 – An online fund-raising campaign has been started to enable Singapore’s top cyber-athletes compete in the upcoming Grand Finals of the World Cyber Games (WCG) ‘08 in Cologne, Germany. This fund-raising campaign is crucial after gamers were stranded without sponsorship even though they qualified at the National Finals to represent Singapore. Three of these Singaporean champions are even medal hopefuls in Cologne. [Read more]