Research In Motion (RIM) announced yesterday that it has replaced co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie with the company’s COO, Thorsten Heins. Immediate reaction saw US-listed shares climbed 4.1 percent in premarket trade but e27 sees more needed to bring RIM back to past glory. Research In Motion’s…
JFDI.Asia’s CEO Hugh Mason sheds more light on what to expect at JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp and what the team is going through. “Two years ago, Meng Wong and I started pushing a big heavy ball up a hill”, writes JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason. “We set out…
Echelon 2012 Startup Marketplace is now officially open for submissions. e27 is reaching out to their various media partners across the region to help get the word out to Asian startups in their communities. The Echelon 2012 Startup Marketplace, formerly known as Echelon Launchpad and…
Bartop helps you expand your real life social network and allows you to meet with someone new over drinks.
Fancy meeting with someone cool over drinks? Derrick Ko recently launched Bartop.co where you get to do just that. The idea is a simple one. You browse for an…
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e27 was in Jakarta last week to check out how the local IT startup industry was benefiting from Boost. e27′s Gabriel Yang managed to grab a quick interview with Andy Zain and Ryu Kawano Suliawan of the Boost organizing team to find out how this non-profit…
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According to Sana, founder of gaming startup accelerator YetiZen, “we’d love to take in more Asian companies, and recently we’ve seen more interesting games companies apply from Asia.”
How much time do we actually spend on games? According to game researcher and developer Jane McGonigal, PhD, by the age of…
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Connect with that friend of a friend that you are interested in, all through the Little Black Book.
Noticed that cute guy/girl on the friends list of one of your Facebook friend and want to say hello, without feeling awkward? Well here’s a fun Facebook app for you. Vinod, the…
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e27′s writer, Joanna Yeo, checks out SG Geek Girls at their first ever meetup and had the chance to meet many female geeks from various backgrounds.
When I first heard of the SG Geek Girls initiative, I was excited to know that there’s finally a women’s group for…
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For our third series of how do cofounders meet, after getting some feedbacks from the community, we are going to probe deeper into the issue at hand by asking more questions. This time round, we are featuring 2359 Media founded by Zhou Wenhan and Wong Hongting.
How did…
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All three founders of Lumatic make a beeline for Singapore.
All three founders of Lumatic, the navigation software for mobile devices, are coming to/ already are in Singapore. Carlin Gettliffe is already in Singapore and will be joined by Zach Kozick and Jordan Parker.…
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Global Game Jam 2012 (GGJ) is back and set to kick off on January 27. The annual event encourages game developers to create a game (digital or board-based) from a common theme that is only announced at the commencement of the event. The catch? Teams have only 48 hours in which…
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Filipinos are keen in gathering together to share their ideas, knowledge and connect with other geeks.This is the reason why there are numerous tech communities in the Philippines, that usually involve designers, developers, mobile, start-ups, and open source.
Below are some of the upcoming tech events in the Philippines…
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500 Startups invests in Tokyo/Singapore-based interactive media platform startup, Cinemacraft, bringing total investments to US$900,000.
After a reported S$1 million dollar funding round lead by Jungle Ventures in October last year, Cinemacraft today announced further investments from 500 Startups. According to the official press…
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