Geekonomics

Looks like the storage business is doing well, probably boosted by increasingly mobile devices the likes of iPhone, iPad, netbooks, in vehicle entertainment, etc. See below for the full announcement:

Full-Year Revenue Totals US$9.8 Billion, Up 32 Percent, Net Income of US$5.93 Per Share, Up 185 Percent

Kuala Lumpur – 26 July 2010 — Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 and fourth quarter ended July 2, 2010. For the quarter, revenue totaled US$2.4 billion, hard drive unit shipments were 49.7 million and net income was US$265 million, or US$1.13 per share. The quarterly results included US$27 million of expense related to litigation settlements. In the year-ago quarter, the company posted revenue of US$1.9 billion, shipped 40.0 million hard drives, and reported net income and earnings per share of US$196 million and US$0.86, respectively. This included US$5 million of income from the resolution of restructuring accruals and an US$18 million gain on the sale of the company’s substrate manufacturing facility in Sarawak, Malaysia.

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SINGAPORE, 01 July 2010 – The Spirit of Enterprise (SOE), a non-profit organisation created to inspire Singapore students and youths to become entrepreneurs, is accepting nominations to its 2010 Sprit of Enterprise Awards until 15 July 2010. Held annually since 2003, SOE Awards recognize successful small and medium businesses.
To qualify, the business must be locally registered, not less than 5 years in operation, earning less than S$10-million, with a good business standing and no legal obligations.
The Spirit of Enterprise Awards will honour 30 SMBs and plans to introduce a new award category this year.

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This geek saw the product demo for myself and was pretty impressed so I agreed to be listed as one of the talents/consultants on the site since it’s non-exclusive anyways. Not sure about the World’s 1st claim but they’ve already filed the patent it seems. Check out the worldwide release of Pepperconn’s “Social Media Groupware for Enterprises”:

- A major breakthrough in Enterprise Social Media Software with patent filed

- Groupware lowers entry barriers for SME owners and marketers to self-manage their own social media or digital campaigns (programs)

- Creates a new ecosystem of online talents and opportunities to monetize one’s talents

Singapore, 25 January 2010 – pepperconn LLP today launched the pepperconn Groupware, a collaborative software for enterprises to manage content and talents in social media programs where the goal is to engage customers, solicit feedback and generate marketing buzz on the internet.   Such programs leverage on one or more social network (eg. Facebook and Twitter), the company’s blog and corporate website to aggregate user-generated content and grow its base of readers.

Typically, an agency will be appointed to manage such programs and to source for bloggers and talents – an option that is usually frustrating for both corporate clients and agencies due to a lack of real-time visibility, measurements of success, project management inefficiencies and it is costly for SMEs and marketers with tighter budgets

“It was from this frustration as a corporate marketer driving social media marketing campaigns at SingTel, Samsung and Nokia, that I Read more…

Received this in my inbox a couple of hours back:

19 January 2010

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To all our valued customers,

This is to confirm that Japan Airlines is now Read more…

Friendster Granted Patent on Sharing Relationship Information Stored in a Social Network Database with Third Party Databases

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 6, 2009 — Friendster, Inc., a top global web site based on traffic, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the social networking pioneer a new U.S. Patent, titled “Method for Sharing Relationship Information Stored in a Social Network Database with Third Party Databases” (U.S. Patent No. 7,478,078). Friendster has been granted five patents since July 2006, validating the company’s early and continual innovation in online social networking.

Friendster’s latest patent describes a technology where Read more…

Some of you might have read about a new investment which I just made which I couldn’t announce earlier.

I’ve finally completed the investment this month and it’s now official: I’m privileged to be able to advise and invest in the company which owns and operates Singapore’s most well-read entrepreneurship and startup site: SGEntrepreneurs.com (SGE).

SGE seeks to provide the most comprehensive coverage on Singapore’s startup and entrepreneurship scene and some of the startups featured in SGE have gone on to feature in renowned international sites like Mashable, TechCrunch, KillerStartups, folksonomy, Malaysia Entrepreneurs, etc.

You can read SGE’s announcement about this investment in their latest ’state of the site’ report as well as check out the updated team bio.

This geek is definitely looking forward to an exciting journey ahead working with the good folks at SGE and if you are a startup, an entrepreneur, or toying with the idea of starting out, do feel free to ping us and pop by often!

MySpace to also start selling .tel

SINGAPORE, 26 March, 2009: Telnic Limited (www.telnic.org), the registry operator of the new .tel top level domain, has announced the General Availability of domains for all businesses. From today, large and small businesses can register and begin using their own .tel domain, opening up new communication channels with customers and making themselves more accessible online.

Commenting on the general availability, Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic said: “The launch of .tel represents the most significant innovation for the internet since .com. With prices ranging from Read more…