Faced with initial difficulties while raising funds to have their first book published in print, Bryan Ong, Mark Cheng and Jake Ong saw this an opportunity to create a platform that will help to more individuals in Asia realize their own exciting projects by providing them with crowdfunding site, ToGather.Asia. I got in touch with Read the full article…

Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), Malaysia’s statutory board for driving the country towards establishing an ‘innovation economy’ is investing a total of US$6.7 million into three Malaysian companies. As reported by Digital News Asia, with a mission of stimulating and developing the innovation eco-system in Malaysia, AIM has taken a step forward to help support innovative companies Read the full article…

Hong Kong startup, Frenzoo’s, first 3D fashion mobile role-playing game (RPG), ‘Style Me Girl‘ has reached one million downloads in its first two weeks of release and top the charts for the number one spots for both free RPG and free game on iTunes and Amazon respectively. Launched on Apple, Google Play and Amazon App Read the full article…

VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions has just announced its new partnership with SingTel to provide cloud computing infrastructure based on VMware’s Cloud infrastructure Management Suite. SingTel’s winning proposal of leveraging on end-to-end virtualization solutions from VMware’s comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite built on VMware vSphere® has led it to clinch the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA)’s Read the full article…

MightyText, Android’s solution to Apple’s iMessage officially launches its web app. A couple of weeks ago, I did a review on MightyText, an app that allows Android phone users to text from their computers (Mac or PC) or tablets to any phone devices- just like how normal text messaging functions on phones. Originally launched as Read the full article…

mediba, a Tokyo-based company that provides cutting-edge media production and other services, have announced the establishment of a strategic partnership with MCN Asia, a Singapore-based Thai  mobile marketing company, to build and expand the ad business in Thailand. MCN operates a highly profitable mobile ad platform business based on its proprietary search engine technology. The company boasts a Read the full article…

Dropmyemail, the solution to backing up emails on the cloud, is giving away free extra storage space of up to 2GB to both referrer and referee in its new viral marketing campaign. As covered in our previous article feature of Dropmyemail, this fastest growing Asian startup with 635,000 users to date since its launch at Read the full article…

The 20 startups that will be pitching at South Korea’s first startup conference, beLaunch  on 13 and 14 June 2012 are revealed! 2012 seems like the year for Asian entrepreneurship. We have only just past the halfway mark of 2012 and have already seen more than six tech startup conferences in Asia, especially Singapore! Some Read the full article…

Attention to all you geeks who are interested in BigData, analytics technologies and methodologies! BigData.sg, a community of techies who are passionate about Big Data problems, data science, machine learning, analytics technologies and methodologies  is organizing another meet up next week on 19 June 2012. In collaboration with Microsoft Singapore, this month’s meetup will be see Read the full article…

Founder & CEO of Kiip, Brian Wong, speaks about the ten ways to capture emotions in his presentation  on “Why capturing emotion matters”. This post is part of the live coverage of Echelon 2012, Asia’s leading tech startup event happening on June 11 – 12. If you spot typos, slight inaccuracies or need more clarification, do Read the full article…