(SINGAPORE) Singapore’s entrepreneurship drive may have finally taken root in all things digital.
While the local expansion of foreign multinationals such as Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm tend to hog the headlines, a new market study shows thecountry’s nascent interactive digital media (IDM) sector is in fact rife with local talent.
According to Deloitte Consulting, local firms make [...]
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By Tan Weizhen
SINGAPORE’S next generation of digital media whizzes are being grown with money from a $500 million fund that has gone into building digital classrooms, as well as promising commercial ventures by start-up companies and MNCs.
And now, funding will also go to research projects by companies in digital media, the Media Development Authority (MDA) [...]
The Government is pumping in an unprecedented $250 million to help promising Singapore media companies like documentary producers, music companies and video game developers to develop the industry further this year.
Yesterday, the Media Development Authority (MDA) announced that it had committed the amount to help ’sustain the growth of Singapore’s media sector amid the economic [...]
Singapore, 12 March 2009 – Addressing key members of the industry at its annual Media Business Forum, the Media Development Authority (MDA) today announced that the Government aims to spend $250 million this year to sustain the growth momentum of Singapore’s media sector amidst the economic downturn. This spending, which includes funding from the National [...]
Making money off the web
Four IDMPO funded companies were recently featured in Digital Life for their unique and viable business models, and who have been gaining traction (in terms of profit and user outreach) through social networking platforms such as Facebook, Friendster, Second Life and so on. The four companies profiled were iHipo (international internships), [...]
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) has awarded five new media projects, worth S$7.6 million (US$5.1 million), to help propel local companies with new media services and businesses into the global market.
The five projects, selected from 26 proposals first called for in September 2008, range from development of games to media-rich learning, and is [...]
By Kenny Chee
DARWINIAN theories are set to hit Singapore TV screens in the form of a cartoon entitled The Future Is Wild.
The 3-D animated series – coproduced by Singapore Technologies (ST) Electronics and Canadian animation giant Nelvana, and co-funded by theMedia Development Authority – is based on an Animal Planet show of the same name, [...]
Singapore, 31 October 2008 – Singapore’s Interactive Digital Media (IDM) industry receives a boost with the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) – and its vast network of industry members – partnering the multi-agency IDM Research and Development Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by the Media Development Authority on a mentorship programme to cultivate and develop [...]
sLOCAL Interactive Digital Media (IDM) start-ups and companies will be getting a boost in their pockets from the Singapore government, thanks to the i.MATCH initiative, which is aimed at bridging funding gaps in the local IDM sector.
RAdm (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Senior Minister of State for Education and Information, Communications and the Arts, announced the [...]