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OCTOBER 13, 2013

Here’s some good and bad news for Singapore – the good news is, cybercrime incidents in the country this year as reported has dropped by almost 25%. In the News 2013 Norton Report cybercrime Norton online crime Singapore Symantec'

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

The Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) earlier this month celebrated over 40 innovative technology solutions – across various categories including the best start-up, cloud solution, digital media, e-government, and infocomm productivity – at an awards ceremony that attracted over 290 submissions in total. STProperty.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

After a series of successful startup events in Singapore, and Jakarta and Bandung in Indonesia last year, Asia-based online technology news site TechinAsia will be kicking off Startup Asia Singapore ‘s second edition later in April this year.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Echelon is back for its 2013 edition – it takes place on 17 and 18 June this year – and it’s currently on the hunt for more of Asia’s most promising startups. Registration ends 31 Jan 2013.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Social media practitioners and enthusiasts in Singapore, rejoice – Social Media Week Singapore 2013 is upon this month, and will see over 30 free-to-participate events scheduled across 18-22 February. “There has never been a better time to discuss the impact of social media and technology in shaping our societies.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2013

The Asia Showcase, the Asian component of the Challenge, is supported by NUS Enterprise and will take place in Singapore on 16 May 2013 as part of NUS Enterprise ’s flagship event InnovFest 2013. and Europe Showcases for a grand prize of US$50,000 in September 2013 at the Dubai Grand Finale@SIBOS.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

One of Singapore’s oldest startup competitions – Start-Up@Singapore – is back, this time for its 14th edition. Preliminary submissions end on 8th February, 2013 – register for it here.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

In the same year, Singapore did not improve its credit terms with export customers either. Research has found three reasons why foreign customers were late paying Singapore suppliers 1 : Financial problems. billion pa industry, and is starting to gain traction in Singapore. Atradius, Payment Practices in Asia-Pacific, 2013.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator ( JFDI Asia ) has revealed that over 300 digital startup teams have applied for its second accelerator program for this year, competing for just 12 places in this intake. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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MAY 19, 2013

Japan-based electronic commerce and Internet service provider Rakuten has announced its first-ever Rakuten Startup Challenge in Singapore, a competition that looks at getting Singapore-based entrepreneurs and developers to develop personalized e-commerce websites using Rakuten’s APIs (Application Programming Interface).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

One of more interesting trends touched on during Crowdsourcing Week in Singapore last week , but was not explored in any great detail, was the how online work has been taking off in Asia as part of the changing work landscape in this part of the world. 7 in terms of payment volume in Q1 2013 when hiring online freelancers.

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JUNE 16, 2015

Twitter last week announced that it has opened its office in Singapore, officially designating it as its headquarters for the Asia Pacific region. The news comes as Twitter CEO Dick Costolo abruptly indicating that he would be stepping down amid increasing scrutiny of the company’s slow user and revenue growth.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

It launched the original Pebble in January 2013, and earlier this year in January announced the Pebble Steel at International CES and starting shipping them by March. The smartwatch startup first burst unto the scene on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter in 2012 raising over US$10 million from almost 70,000 backers in a very short time.

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APRIL 11, 2013

SPRING Singapore , the country’s agency responsible for helping Singapore enterprises, also has a charter that looks at helping bring disruptive technologies into the market through its Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme (TECS). The current quarterly grant call for TECS POV will close on 30 June 2013.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Thanks to the digitization of government systems spurred when former President Barack Obama established data.gov in 2013 ; there’s a strong mandate to collect and organize government-owned data. Converging Trends. And there’s an even bigger push to make that data more accessible to the American public.

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MAY 19, 2013

Last week its organizers, tech media and events platform e27 , finally announced its full speaker lineup, agenda and the participating startups pitching for the title of Echelon 2013′s Most Promising Startup. TradeHero (Singapore). Young Upstarts is a media partner of Echelon 2013. Conference. MathSpace (Australia).

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MAY 15, 2013

VIPs checking out the NUS Living Lab booth at InnovFest 2013. “We hope the first users of the NUS Living Lab will emerge from our business partnering session, held during InnovFest 2013 , where we aim to link up industry partners with innovators.”

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MAY 8, 2013

The competition has announced the selection of 15 Asia-based startups for its Asian leg, which will take place on 16 May 2013 at NUS Enteprise-run InnovFest 2013. Events & Happenings Asia financial industry financial services Innotribe Startup Challenge Singapore startup SWIFT' The startups are: Innervative Learning.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

In a country where a car essentially denoted status and is a symbol of wealth (and it doesn’t even have to be a luxury model), renting a car could easily be seen as a failure of sorts, at least in materialistic Singapore. mobile application online marketplace Singapore' Including locals and overseas visitors, Drive.SG

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Despite the country’s modest size, the tiny island of Singapore seems to be producing game development firms at a prodigious rate. “Mobile games are the fastest-growing segment, with revenue set to nearly double between 2013 and 2015 from US$13.2 billion to an expected US$22 billion in the same period.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Singapore-based bank DBS today announced that they will be providing social enterprises in Singapore with project grants of up to S$1 million to help them with their business expansion plans and help boost their social causes. Bizlink Centre Singapore. A-changin.

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MAY 3, 2015

Singapore’s startup scene looks set to become even more vibrant with the entrance of Sydney-based startup accelerator muru-D. trillion,” says Annie Parker, co-founder at muru - D.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Freelance staffing site Elance.com ‘s Kjetil Olsen, its vice president for Europe, was in town for Crowdsourcing Week and Echelon 2013 , but was also looking for opportunities to expand the platform’s reach in Southeast Asia. Feature Story Asia crowdfunding crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Week Elance.com Pirate3D Singapore'

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MAY 14, 2013

“SMEs make up over 99% of organizations and employ seven out of every 10 workers in Singapore. “SMEs make up over 99% of organizations and employ seven out of every 10 workers in Singapore. . “SMEs make up over 99% of organizations and employ seven out of every 10 workers in Singapore.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2013

We managed to speak to Hubert Yoshida of Hitachi Data Systems when he was in Singapore recently to share his top ten predictions on storage virtualization in the IT industry in 2013. We took the opportunity ask him to how storage virtualization and its trends would affect technology startups.

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MAY 28, 2013

According to a recent Global Digital Assets survey conducted by computer security software company McAfee , that value stands at $57,500 – almost the cost of acquiring a private university education in Singapore. McAfee LiveSafe will come pre-installed on Ultrabook™ devices and PCs from Dell in Singapore starting on June 9, 2013.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore facing critical challenges in doing business in-country – with its manpower crunch, high rental costs and small domestic market – may want to consider exploring participating in the global e-commerce market, says PayPal.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

In Hong Kong, there are fewer than 10 alternative financiers, with similar numbers in Singapore. When Chinese banks tightened lending in 2013, the number of P2P lenders exploded. According to a report by Grand Thornton 2 , crowdfunding platforms in China made up 28 per cent of global deal flow between 2011 and 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Singapore-based technology startup accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) today announced that applications for the first of its two business acceleration programs they intend to run for 2013 is now officially open. The program will start on 14 February 2013 and runs through May.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Despite the introduction of NFC technology into Singapore a number of years back, it hasn’t quite taken off. It actually promotes the use of Samsung TecTiles , the first business implementation of the company’s Near Field Communications (NFC) technology in Southeast Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Singapore-based technology startup incubator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI.Asia – today unveiled a lineup of eight technology startups set to participate in its 100-day accelerator program this year. DayTripR, from Singapore and New Zealand, have an online data collection utility. Duable Chinese (?able)

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2013

The music scene in Singapore looks set to grow by volumes with today’s announcement that music streaming service Spotify is now available here. In the News Asia digital music Malaysia music distribution music streaming online music Singapore Spotify'

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

Singapore is no stranger to the magic of crowdfunding. That changes with Dusty Revenge , the latest from Singapore-based PD Design Studio. Singapore is only known for one of those two things but there’s no reason why we can’t foster a healthy development community. by Ade Putra. Support local indie development.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

The Ideas Inc. Business Challenge , the annual business plan and startup competition that’s organized by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) , is back – and it’s bigger and better.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

The countries are Singapore (490 FinTechs), Indonesia (262 FinTechs), Malaysia (196 FinTechs), Thailand (128 FinTechs), Philippines (115 FinTechs), and Vietnam (77 FinTechs). Quoine is a cryptocurrency company based in Singapore, with operations in Vietnam and Japan. Singapore Life (Singlife).

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JANUARY 26, 2014

” Seven of these 20 startups hail from Asia, including Singapore’s regional winner NovaTap (dockphp), which developed a browser-based tool to code websites visually. Accelerators including the Singapore-based Business Strategy consultancy Galixo will coach and mentor the finalists.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

by Jun Byongnam, Regional Director of the Korea IT Cooperation Center in Singapore. Since 2013, the South Korean government has invested up to $2 billion annually into its startup ecosystem, and in 2017 they pledged an additional $9 billion to have the highest government spending per capita. Before COVID-19 – Setting the stage.

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