(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 [...]
It’s been an exciting 2 months for IDM as our fundees from NUS beat 56 teams from 17 countries in a competition lasting10 months to win the The Star Challenge@Fusionoplis organized by A*STAR, students from Team GAMBIT beat 350 other teams from over 100 countries to win the top prize in Microsoft’s XNA Dream-Build-Play Competition, [...]
Singapore, 31 October 2008 – Singapore’s Interactive Digital Media (IDM) industry receives a boost with the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) – and its vast network of industry members – partnering the multi-agency IDM Research and Development Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by the Media Development Authority on a mentorship programme to cultivate and develop IDM [...]
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 [...]