(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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The National Science and Technology Awards Committee invites you to nomincate deserving scientists and engineers for the prestigious National Science and Technology Award (NSTA). The Awards are the highest honours Singapore confers on individuals and teams who have made outstanding contributions to science and technology in Singapore. Since the Awards’ inception in 1987, 132 individuals [...]
The SiTF 2009 ICT Business Outlook Forum will be held on 18 Feb 2009 at Raffles City Convention Centre. This event has been well-attended by ICT industry’s C-Level executives, senior business decision makers, policy makers, professionals and entrepreneurs. The objective of this event is to provide ICT players the chance to listen to different perspectives [...]
Singapore can become a world-class media hotbed, say participants of the first Asian edition of SIGGRAPH, one of the world’s most renowned trade shows on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Industry heavyweights Locasfilm, Pixar, Autodesk and others at the show are bullish about Singapore’s investments in this sector. Singapore is trying to postition itself as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SINGAPORE’S attempt to become a port-of-call for digital media companies is starting to materialise with more gaming studios and animation companies docking their regional operations in the city-state. The latest to join the fold is Italian firm Rainbow SpA, the studio responsible for the popular Winx Club animated series. BizIT understands that the company has [...]