1. Agile Start-ups, Big Connections What do a 3-D modelling company, a knowledge management system (KMS) vendor, and an iPhone app developer have in common? For KPB, BCZ, and buUuk, it is the fact that they are all funded by the IDM Programme Office (IDMPO), and that their work has caught the attention of large [...]
7 March 2011 Singapore Management University and Carnegie Mellon University to Create the Living Analytics Research Centre Pioneering effort to create ways of understanding consumer and social behavior by combining advances from computing, social science and management SINGAPORE – Singapore Management University (SMU) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA, have teamed up [...]
IDMPO-funded company ServTouch has partnered with Starhub to release a new, affordable over-the-top set-top box that is the first to feature dynamic open platform applications store to leverage the power of Next-Generation Nationwide Broadband Network. Called PopBox, this player will deliver rich locally-created and premium global digital content to Singapore households Singapore, March 8, 2011 [...]
The following positions are available at YuuZoo Corporation. Job Title: Mobile Content Manager SUMMARY: YuuZoo Corporation (www.yuucorp.com), one of the world’s fastest growing mobile media, development and digital payment companies, is seeking a Mobile Content Manager to be responsible for our network’s overall content strategy and programming. He/She will work with the content and community [...]
Launch of Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) From left: Prof. Ramayya Krishnan (Dean, Heinz College, CMU), Prof Steven Miller (Dean, School of Information Systems, SMU) and Mr. Michael Yap (Deputy CEO, MDA, and Executive Director, IDMPO) at the launch of the Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) With a firm belief in Singapore’s potential to be [...]
Dr Neo Shi Yong and Mr Victor Goh, two computer science graduates from the National University of Singapore, started KAI Square in 2006 with funding from the IDMPO. Since clinching the Global 100 Red Herring Award early this year, the company has gained much publicity as the choice provider for innovative security software, hardware, and [...]
Asia-Pacific’s leading media intelligence company Media Monitors has acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based social media tracking firm Brandtology. Brandtology will remain a distinct brand in the Media Monitors Group. Brandtology and the IDM Programme Office are looking to collaborate on IDM and digital advertising projects. Media Monitors CEO John Croll said – “I look [...]
GAMBIT games continue to shine at the annual Indie Games Challenge. In the 2011 version of the awards that were just handed out, GAMBIT’s Symon game won the Kongregate Award for Best Browser Game at the Indie Game Challenge, part of the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas. It was the 2010 GAMBIT summer team that was responsible for developing Symon. The game [...]
As part of the i.ROCK Programme, the IDM Programme Office (IDMPO) has concluded negotiations with the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for the establishment of the BeingThere International Research Centre (IRC) in Singapore (IRC@SG). BeingThere will bring together some of the best minds in [...]
Since winning the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation Award in 2009 and the Emerging Enterprise of the Year award in 2010, trailblazing technopreneurs at Kai Square have not rested on their laurels. This IDMPO-funded start-up won the prestigious Top 100 Global Red Herring (the ‘Oscars” of the start-up industry) Award in January this year. This is not [...]