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• 02Jun

  City Square Mall launches Facebook game to promote Great Singapore Sale

  Apps, Developers, Enterprise, Fashion, Gaming, Press Release, Singapore Tech, Social Games, Social Media, news No Comments

  Local malls getting tech savvy with Facebook games for the June holidays to promote the Great Singapore Sale?

  Singapore, 2 June 2011 - City Square Mall, owned and managed by City Developments Limited (CDL), has launched “Elmo’s Garden”, a Sesame Street game on its Facebook page www.facebook.com/citysquaremall to tie in with the mall’s activities for the Great Singapore Sale promotions and June school holidays.  From now till 26 June, fans of City Square Mall can grow a virtual garden on Facebook, where the top 30 most “Liked” gardens with at least five flowers (inclusive of a sunflower) will win Sesame Street Kids T-shirts and eco-premiums.

  The theme for the game is based on the new Sesame Street Live Asia Show “Elmo’s Green Thumb” and seeks to promote greater awareness about Earth and the environment among City Square Mall’s Facebook fans.

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• 07Jan

  Apple’s Mac App Store Opens for Business

  Enterprise, PC, Press Release, mac, news No Comments

  Looks like 2011 hails the start of a brand new way to buy software as the App Store is used not only for mobile apps but serious software from Autodesk, etc.

  CUPERTINO, California—January 6, 2011— Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes® account, download and install them in just one step. The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard® users through Software Update as part of Mac OS® X v10.6.6.

  “With more than 1,000 apps, the Mac App Store is off to a great start,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think users are going to love this innovative new way to discover and buy their favorite apps.”

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• 15Nov

  Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2010 Honours Local Entrepreneurs

  Enterprise, Press Release, Singapore Tech, Startup, news, tech jobs No Comments

  I wasn’t at the ceremony tonight but pleased to know that Adrin from Yakun won the special category award! Now, where are the tech companies? I count only 3 of them amongst the 30 winners!

  SINGAPORE, 15 November 2010 – Champion of small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) in
  Singapore, the Spirit of Enterprise (SOE) tonight convened its annual SOE Awards naming 30
  honourees and the inaugural winner for its new award category. This year’s awardees come from various industries, including beauty and wellness, clean technology, food & beverage, logistics, media & entertainment and professional services, among others.

  Eight years into igniting the entrepreneurial spirit among Singaporeans, SOE Awards has since recognised and honoured 304 self-reliant local entrepreneurs operating small and medium-sized businesses. Through the annual awards, SOE distinguishes the SMEs’ tenacity for building up their businesses.

  Guest of Honour, Mr Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Trade & Industry and Manpower, in his speech during the awards ceremony, urged SMEs to improve their productivity: “While our SMEs actively seek growth opportunities, they must have the capacity back home to innovate, create new business models and improve existing product and services. The objective is to stay ahead of global competition, by creating new values from their solutions. To achieve this, our SMEs need to invest in their innovative capabilities.”

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• 08Oct

  Half of Critical Infrastructure Providers Have Experienced Perceived Politically Motivated Cyber Attacks

  Enterprise, Enterprise Tech, Internet Safety, Press Release, Security, World, news No Comments

  Sounds like something straight out of a spy movie? In this day and age, you never know especially after Google claimed that the Chinese government orchestrated an attack on their services just early this year. Read the full release from Symantec for yourself and be your own judge:

  SINGAPORE, October 7, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) has released the findings of its 2010 Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Survey, which highlights that 53 percent of critical infrastructure providers report that their networks have experienced what they perceived as politically motivated cyber attacks.  Participants claimed to have experienced such an attack on an average of 10 times in the past five years, incurring an average cost of $850,000 to their businesses.  Survey participants from the energy industry reported that they were best prepared for such an attack, while participants from the communications industry reported that they were the least prepared.  Critical infrastructure providers represent industries that are of such importance either to a nation’s economy or society that if their cyber networks were successfully attacked and damaged, the result would threaten national security.

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• 26Jul

  Western Digital announces Q4 revenue of US$2.4 billion and net income of US$265 million

  Asia Tech, Enterprise, Finance, Press Release, news No Comments

  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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• 07Jul

  Spirit of Enterprise Awards’ call for nominations till 15 July

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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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• 26Jan

  SINGAPORE START UP LAUNCHES THE WORLD’S 1ST SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPWARE FOR ENTERPRISES

  Enterprise, Enterprise Tech, Internet, Press Release, Singapore Tech, Social Media, World, Youth Culture, news, tech jobs No Comments

  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…

  

  Tags: Enterprise, pepperconn, social media groupware

• 19Jan

  Japan Airlines: Important company information

  Enterprise, Finance, Geek Travels, m&a, news No Comments

  Received this in my inbox a couple of hours back:

  19 January 2010

  -NOTE—————————————————————–
  For Chinese version, please click
  http://www.hk.jal.com/cms/contents/local/jal_news_4408.html
  —————————————————————–NOTE-

  To all our valued customers,

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

  

  Tags: Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan, JAL, Japan Airlines

• 06Oct

  Friendster Receives Fifth Social Networking Patent

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  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…

  

  Tags: friendster, patent, social networks

• 27Jul

  Investing in SGEntrepreneurs.com

  Citizen Journalism, Enterprise, Finance, Singapore Tech, Social Media, m&a, news, tech jobs 5 Comments

  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!

  

  Tags: investment, SGE, SGEntrepreneurs

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