ADZ is the brainchild of Reza Behnam, an accomplished business professional with more than 13 years of Internet industry experience. First launched in 2008, ADZ has grown to be the digital media management platform of choice across Asia Pacific and the world, bringing buyers and sellers of advertising together to trade in an efficient, transparent, [...]
Nan Chiau Primary School and Ngee Ann Secondary School have just joined the FutureSchools@Singapore programme. Established in 2008 by the Ministry of Education (MOE), the FutureSchools@Singapore programme aims to encourage innovation and enterprise in schools by leveraging on infocomm technologies and interactive digital media to deliver enhanced and more engaging learning experiences for students.The next sprint of the FutureSchools@Singapore programme will see these schools deepening their capabilities in curriculum, continuing research, infocomm technology and IDM integration. They will also lead initiatives to foster a spirit of innovation across schools.
Start-ups in the interactive digital media (IDM) sector can now gain one-stop access to the resources they need to develop and market their solutions to customers. Known as “Blk71”, the incubation programme was set up as a collaboration between MDA, SingTel Innov8 and NUS Enterprise. “Blk71” gets its name literally from the address of [...]
SINGAPORE Press Holdings’ events management arm Sphere Exhibits has teamed up with United States (US)-based events company IDG Enterprise to bring a renowned technology conference to Singapore. Called Demo, the show has been held in the US for the past 20 years. It has been the go-to event for startups to secure funding from venture [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Sep 2009, the IDM Programme Office funded Razer to establish a substantive IDM R&D Lab. With an investment of US$20million, this Razer IDM lab was set up for the purposes of R&D in interactive gaming technology and platforms, as well as in the creation of interactive gaming interfaces and devices to fuel Singapore’s growth [...]
One of Singapore’s oldest printings firms, which has served generations of book lovers here, has heeded the call of digital publishing. Tien Wah Press is opnin a new chapter of its 75-year-old history by partnering local start-up Personal e-Motion (a company supported by the IDM Programme Office) to offer an interactive e-book digital solution called [...]