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 [...]
GAME developers here will now be able to create games using free software and publish them on an established online marketplace. They also get a chance to apply for a $50,000 grant to develop these games. At a media event yesterday, Microsoft Singapore said the Republic’s game developers will be the first in Asia, ahead [...]
MDA offers grants to budding game developers to create games for Xbox LIVE Community Games Channel Singapore, 16 December 2008 – This holiday season brings good tidings for budding game developers in Singapore. From today, anyone with the passion and the talent will have the opportunity to create and quickly commercialize their games on the [...]
Govt is ‘fully committed’ to investment as it is a key driver of economy for the future, says PM FUNDING from the Government for scientific research and development, which helped push it to a record 2.6 per cent of gross domestic product last year, will not be cut in the current economic downturn, Prime Minister [...]
15 projects ranging from transport to heritage planning spur innovation and breakthrough in Singapore’s IDM sector Singapore, 17 October 2008 – Fifteen new projects on the concept of Co-Space™ have been awarded funding by the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Research and Development (R&D) Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by the Media Development Authority. Collectively, these [...]
Media 21, a blueprint of the Media Development Authority (MDA), envisions Singapore as a global media city where services and projects are created, developed, traded and distributed. Related link: The vision anchors Singapore as Asia’s leading media marketplace and financing hub as well as a test-bed for innovative concepts and ideas in digital media. MDA [...]
Projects selected by international experts for funding unleash the potential of real and virtual worlds Singapore, 4 September 2008 – Imagine the convenience of practising yoga at home by wearing a special suit that tells you what positions to adopt through sensors in realtime and without the need of a physical coach. This, along with [...]
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 [...]
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Singapore, 30 July 2008 – Local Interactive Digital Media (IDM) start-ups and companies will get a boost in their search for more investment with the launch of i.MATCH. It is an initiative aimed at bridging funding gaps in the local IDM sector. This is announced today by RAdm (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Senior Minister of [...]