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Singapore a small but important market to Greenplum

29 June 10

Greenplum Database, a solutions provider for large-scale data warehousing and analytics to some of the world's largest data-driven businesses more than doubled both revenue and new customers in 2009, despite the recession then. The company's co-founder and president, Scott Yara said, ''Although Singapore is a fairly small market compared to others, it is nevertheless an important one'. A Silicon Valley venture-funded company founded in 2003, it established its regional head...

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Asia leading in broadband growth

26 June 10

Research findings showed that Asia accounted for more than 53% of the broadband lines added in the world in the first quarter of 2010. An example is Singapore which is rolling out its its Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network, (Next Gen NBN). Global broadband connections currently top 484 million lines, resulting in a 3.12% growth in the quarter, and 12.41% in the past year to the end of Q1 of this year. The first quarter growth rate increase shows a tremendous growt...

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PayPal targets Asia-Pacific for mobile commerce

17 June 10

PayPal is looking at growing its pie in Asia-Pacific for mobile commerce. According to Informa Research, the region's mobile commerce market is expected to explode from 24 billion dollars in 2009 to 139 billion dollars in 2012. PayPal announced that it had signed an agreement with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) to drive mobile commerce in the country. This will make it easier for businesses and consumers to conduct transactions and make payments over m...

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Singapore’s Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network Opens Up Limitless Possibilities For All Sectors

15 June 10

The Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN) is expected to be deployed nationwide in Singapore by 2012 to offer competitively priced broadband speeds from 100Mbps,  scalable up to one Gbps (gigabit per second) and beyond.  It will be rolled out in workplaces, homes and schools, and even to outdoor locations. Beyond the boost in speeds, a competitive retail broadband services market will open doors to new advancements such as interactive Internet Protoco...

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Asia’s security software market to grow by 21% in 2010

14 June 10

Asia Pacific's security software market outside Japan in 2010 is expected to grow year-on-year by 21%, in comparison only 3% in 2009, according to research house IDC. One of the key reasons is the resume of previously frozen or pending projects, of which security is a major component in them. The demand for security solutions remains strong, given the volume of new enterprise and data centre projects, together with an increase in awareness for data protection, according to I...

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Yahoo: Singapore can take advantage of Southeast Asia’s online media boom

7 June 10

The number of online media on-the-move consumers are increasing in Southeast Asia, according to the second annual Net Index Study by Yahoo where Singapore can benefit from this trend. Being the business epicentre of Southeast Asia, with good connectivity and maturity, Singapore continues to attract entrepreneurs and multinationals.  Despite its small population, Singapore has influenced many key decisions that impact the region when it comes to online advertising and market...

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