SINGAPORE (January 20, 2010) – Singapore-based payment solutions provider 2C2P was declared winner of the Red Herring Global 100 Award last Friday during this year’s ceremony held in Laguna Niguel, California. Regarded as one of the most prestigious awards in the technology industry, Red Herring has chosen 2C2P out of 1,200 companies from North America, [...]
The online payment gateway sector has always been a tough nut to crack. It’s almost akin to the OS market of yore – dominated by huge players; better systems don’t necessarily equate to higher market share and the industry is bogged down by rampant bugs and the lurking danger of fraudulent activity. But as is [...]
A group of some 30 Singapore digital media companies today wrapped up their five-day business mission trip to China with a slate of business deals with their Chinese counterparts.
These deals cover the launch of a Chinese version of a popular Made-in-Singapore social networking game; a cross-border venture development and incubation effort for new media companies; [...]
Govt in talks with game developers and it also plans to fund them
NURSES in Singapore could soon learn how to treat patients by practising their techniques on a video game. And they are not the only ones turning to games for their ‘lessons’.
The Government is banking on the premise that the local educational games [...]
By Tan Weizhen
WANTED: Skilled hands for the fast-growing gaming industry, which Singapore has pegged as one of the next big growth areas for the country.
To boost numbers, working professionals in non-related jobs, such as engineering, are now being courted.
To sweeten the deal, full-time, heavily subsidised gaming courses are being offered to those who want to [...]
Singapore companies in the infocomm technology and interactive digital media (IDM) areas have also created world-class products and services.
Dr Christopher Chia, chief executive of Media Development Authority (MDA): “Creativity is not questioned today. Instead, we need to ensure that the content pipeline is full and that development teams can easily collaborate with overseas partners [...]
FUTURE OF MEDIA
Inspiring Innovation
Fueling the Future of Media
We are launching the “Future of Media” Initiative to catalyse growth in the interactive digital media (IDM) sector. In 2009, we are including Future Mobile, Future Games, Future TV, Future Worlds and Future Books.
The vision of Future of Media is to pull together companies and combine collectively their [...]
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 [...]
By Kenny Chee
Competitive male-oriented conversations in an industry dominated by men can at times tire Ms Doanna Neville, 26.
“But otherwise there are no problems and I do not think I am treated differently,” said Ms Neville, a Singaporean environment artist working in a local video game-development company.
She is the first game developer to receive a [...]
Singapore’s online advertising industry is seeing a growing number of large brand advertisers coming in, resulting in the market growing by 33.7 per cent to US$190 million in 2008.
Research by Frost & Sullivan shows that the republic’s online advertising market, which was worth US$142.1 million in 2007 will grow at CAGR (compound annual growth [...]