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World Bank: Singapore the best country to run a business
5 November 10
According to the latest 2011 World Bank report, Singapore remains the best country to run a business. The report rates 183 countries on the ease in which they allow firms to operate. The other seven factors evaluated are - taxation, trading across borders, registering property, dealing with construction permits, closing a business, enforcing contracts and protecting investors. Hong Kong emerged in the second place, with New Zealand third, followed by UK and US in the fort...
Read MoreTechcrunch: How Singapore Could Become the Most Important City in the Emerging World
3 November 10
Abstracted from Sarah Lacy's post in Techcrunch: Web companies, luxury brands and KFC aren’t the only ones who benefit from the rising Asian middle class. As more people climb out of poverty, they demand basic healthcare products we take for granted in the West. The continent is also a huge growth area for pharmaceutical multinationals and for them, Singapore is a great hub of talent and government support for clinical trials. Read more...
Read MoreTechcrunch: Sarah Lacy on her trip to Singapore
30 October 10
Extracts of Sarah Lacy's posts: Singapore is such an incredibility easy place to come into. Everyone speaks English. It is a futuristic city. It's a no brainer place if you are a western company. Singapore is a competitive place to start a pan-Asian company. After years of investing hundreds of millions directly in entrepreneurs, Singapore is now taking a lead from how Israel created its venture capital ecosystem. It partners with venture firms, allowing them to make the be...
Read MoreLatest Startup Positions Available
20 October 10
Latest positions available: Altruik - XSLT Developers AllProperty Media - 1) Web Mobile Developer, 2) Technical Lead Appbackr Inc - Architect/Lead Developer Intalio - Senior Software Engineer Olive Media - 1) VP, Engineering, 2) Engineering Lead, Hardware, 3) VP, Business Development Social Gaming Network - Game development engineering lead ViVOtech - Software Engineer Check out details at www.iipl.com.sg/jobboard ....
Read More“China, India and the Next Frontier of Tech Innovation” – 29 Oct 2010
20 October 10
Tech entrepreneurship is spreading throughout Asia’s innovation hotspots. The region’s advanced mobile communications and Internet markets, wealth of talented and motivated entrepreneurs and solid government support for advanced technologies all make Asia a world leader in disruptive breakthroughs. The trend has spanned now to biotech and cleantech as well. Venture capital investment has arrived in a big way too, and is helping Asian startups get to the next level a...
Read MoreFrench Singapore Innovation Day – Creating Opportunities Investors and Start-ups 15 Nov 2010
13 October 10
The French Singapore Innovation Day is a business event for technological start-ups with an interest to establish a base in Singapore and for investors looking for highly innovative projects. Organized by the Embassy of France, Infocomm Investments and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, in collaboration with SVCA, the French Singapore Innovation Day brings together the main actors of the Singaporean innovation and investment ecosystem for a 2-days event compris...
Read MoreVenture Beat: VCs say Singapore’s the best hub for Asia investments
12 October 10
Singapore has increasingly become the launchpad of choice for investors. The country has an easy business registration processes, an advantageous tax regime and is located at the center of a burgeoning Southeast Asia startup boom. Investors in Asia have found Singapore to be a foreigner-friendly environment. Angel investor Joi Ito chose Singapore for his fund, Neoteny Labs, precisely for that reason. One of the most visible signs of the region’s bubbling startup acti...
Read MoreVirtual learning on internet phones take off in Singapore
8 October 10
Virtual learning on internet phones are taking off in Singapore. An example inlcudes logging into an online mathematics programme problemsums.com where a customised tutor would provide encouragement and a step-by-step guide. More than 20 primary schools in Singapore are currently using this programme. The website also provides solutions which avatars can read to the students. Tuition classes are also going online where Tutors employed by iKnow teach students via an Interne...
Read MoreSingapore an attractive location to foreign entrepreneurs
30 September 10
Singapore, a land probably with world's highest density of millionaires, has been attracting foreign entrepreneurs like Zhong Sheng Jian, the founder and CEO of the Yanlord Land Group, the largest China-based property developer listed in Singapore. According to Mr Zhong, his success is built on the experiences he has acquired from Singapore. They include organisational development, people management and property development. Singapore to him was an ideal and safe place for h...
Read MoreFacebook: Asia is fastest-growing market
22 September 10
Asia is the fastest-growing region for new subscribers to Facebook, which currently has a sales office in Singapore. The leading social networking site siad that its growth in the region was outpacing the rest of the world. Singapore has nearly three million registered users in Facebook out of a population of five million. Its Asian sales office in Singapore was set up to help regional brands in executing their marketing campaigns on the platform, given the huge Asia market ...
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