FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Referral marketing start-up Anafore secures first round of financing Innovative referral service available on five global e-commerce platforms including Etsy, Magento, Volusion and Shopify May 24th, 2011 – SINGAPORE – Anafore Pte Ltd, the provider of an innovative referral marketing solution that plugs directly into online e-commerce platforms, today announced a round [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

8 February 2011, Singapore – Stream Media Private Limited, a Singapore-based start-up, announced today that it has received S$1 million in Series A funding, led by Stream Global Pte Ltd and SingTel Innov8 Pte Ltd. Stream Media will focus on content acquisition and is working with game studios globally to make use of its payment [...]

11 October 2010, Singapore – Tien Wah Press (TWP), one of the largest printers in the world and Personal e-Motion (PEM), a fast-growing technology company, today announced their strategic partnership agreement. This will see TWP and PEM developing an exciting digital solution for the publishing industry, focusing on the creation of full-color, interactive e-books conversion [...]

PRESS RELEASE 17 September 2010 GOVERNMENT COMMITS S$16.1 BILLION TO SUPPORT RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE FOR THE NEXT 5 YEARS AND SEEKS WAYS TO SOLVE COMPLEX NATIONAL CHALLENGES WITH R&D • Government to commit S$16.1 billion to support research, innovation and enterprise in the next 5 years • PM says Singapore’s long-term aim to be [...]

RING OF CHAMPIONS: THE ROAD TO L.A. PRESS RELEASE Garena Holds Tournament To Send Southeast Asia’s Best League Of Legends Players To L.A. SINGAPORE, August 18th 2010 – Garena, the world’s leading online gaming service provider, is organizing a League of Legends tournament from 4th to 5th September 2010 to determine Southeast Asia’s best League [...]

In its fourth year of running the annual summer internship programmes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab (GAMBIT) continues to see high demand for its interns who have benefited from the programmes. Not only have 86% of its interns from the 2008 and 2009 batches found employment in the [...]