The unConference is Southeast Asia’s #1 participant-driven, startup-focused event for the web industry. Modeled after Silicon Valley culture, the event attracts industry thought leaders, entrepreneurs, developers and professionals from around Asia. The highlight of unConference is the product-demo segment: where startup founders seek to impress investors and the audience with their latest innovations. A number [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 fledgling online video game industry has attracted European animation giant Rainbow, which is investing $25 million to create a new game here. The amount is the largest put into the industry since Singapore embarked on a drive to attract such digital media companies in 2000. Rainbow, an Italian outfit with some &yen60 million (S [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

i.JAMMING Networking Session IDMPO’s bimonthly networking session is here again. The event provides a conducive environment to meet and explore collaboration opportunities in the IDM sector. We are expecting over 400 participants, ranging from industry practitioners, researchers to startups. In this session, we will be announcing Stream Global as our new incubator, and new partnerships [...]

Today, I am happy to announce that the IDMPO will partner SPRING Singapore to launch a new initiative, i.MATCH. This initiative aims to match IDM companies, especially start-ups that have innovative products at development stage, to potential angel investors or major corporate industry players. This will not just enhance the existing funding support available for [...]