(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) [...]
Singapore’s ambition to be a leading media centre received a boost recently, when Koei entertainment, a Japanese game developer, announced plans to expand its operations there.
Four years since establishing a studio in the city-state, Koei is hoping to add up to 60 staff over the next two years.
“The company has achieved its business objectives,” says [...]
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), [...]
Four IDMPO funded companies were featured in Digital Life yesterday for their unique and viable business models and who have been gaining traction (in terms of profit and user outreach) through social networking platforms like Facebook, Second Life and so on. The four companies are iHipo (international internships), Fresbo (casual multi-player games), First Meta (Second [...]
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On Nov 24 last year, a day after news broke about his plans to run for the presidency if he garnered enough support, ‘Tan Kin Lian’ was mentioned 144 times on local forums and blogs. Two days before, his name had come up only about 20 times.
In the subsequent few days, netizens’ sentiments of Mr [...]