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 [...]
Are you an IDM company, or an entrepreneur with an IDM idea? Would you like to raise funds to start or grow your IDM company? From Idea to Investment For the IDM industry, a 5-Day Intensive Workshop presented by Expara Pte. Ltd. & The Media Development Authority of Singapore 3 Day From-Idea-to-Investment Investor Presentation Overview [...]
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 [...]
2008 has been a good year for IDM. 2 years into the programme, an IDM eco-system is taking shape, evidenced by the burgeoning number of world-class research players that are establishing a presence in Singapore, a budding IDM industry, and growing numbers of young startups, incubators and global contributors. To date, 500 RSEs (researchers, scientists [...]
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 [...]
Mr. John White, Chief Executive Officer, ACM Mr. Scott Owen, President, ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished guests Ladies and gentlemen Good morning. I am delighted to join you today at the opening of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. Today’s event is highly significant as this is the inaugural Asia edition of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH Conference [...]
The Government has poured millions of dollars into research and development for the interactive media industry. The goal is for Singapore to become a thought leader in research in this area. Serene Luo from The Straits times looks at three funded projects that are yielding interesting results. Jazzing up the games sector
BUDDING software developers in Singapore have been offered a Microsoft software carrot worth tens of thousands of dollars – in return for a token US$100 subscription fee which they do not even have to pay upfront. This initiative, dubbed BizSpark, was launched in Singapore last Thursday by the software giant with 11 local partners, and [...]
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 [...]