News on ETP Incubatees
January 2012
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Internet entrepreneur Vinod Nair has made commercial forays with a range of Web-based financial tools Vinod Nair, CEO and Founder of web technology company Catapult Ventures, takes information technology seriously and literally. The Business Times, 31 January 2012 |
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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 tech (besides Girls in Tech) and roped in a few of my ‘techy’ friends to attend their first event. e27, 19 January 2012 |
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Plunify's FPGAAccel lets engineers run their chip design processes faster while utilising less resources. The Business Times, 17 January 2012 |
Personal voice assistants useful, but adoption slow Personal voice assistants (PVA) such as Apple's Siri could represent the next big thing in the tech industry, but lack of defined use case and difficulty in collating all the world's spoken languages into a database mean widespread uptake of the tech unlikely to be soon, observers noted. ZDNet Asia, 16 January 2012 |
Mozat social networking platform The app market really moves at a blistering speed. It’s really hard to fathom how it would even look like in the next 2 years. MW talks to Michael Yin from Mozat to see what he feels will pan out in the next couple of years. Mobile World, 15 January 2012 |
Stream Media launches free Android game discovery platform Applorer Discoverability is cited as one of the main challenges developers face when pushing content through iOS, and with the Android Market growing fast, the problem is becoming ever more prevalent. Pocket Gamer, 11 January 2012 |
Key mortgage rate continues to head north A KEY interest rate that determines how much home owners pay on their mortgages is continuing to rise and is likely to increase further. Borrowers could be facing hundreds of dollars a month in extra repayments in the wake of the steadily increasing swap offer rate (SOR) as the benchmark rate is called. The Straits Times, 06 January 2012 |
Salad, grilled meat come together SINGAPORE - It was after one routine workout at the gym that Mr Lim Ze Yan began seriously thinking about sinking his teeth into the food and beverage industry. The 26-year-old found that he was unable to find suitable meals to supplement his workout sessions. TODAY Online, 05 January 2012 |
How do Cofounders Meet – Singapore Series #1 Inspired by the recent Mashable post on how cofounders met, we at e27 will be doing a weekly cofounder series for startups in Singapore. Too many times I’ve come across people who are constantly looking for cofounders. Through these series of “How do Cofounders Meet”, we hope that it would benefit the community and provide some insights as to how do successful cofounders in Singapore find each other. We will speak with startups to discover how they met, where their idea came from and why they decided to take the plunge together. e27, 04 January 2012 |
Kit for kidney disease diagnosis Jan 04, 2012: Singapore-based Nephron Dx has developed a diagnostic platform to detect the presence of nephrin in the patient’s urine sample, which allows detection of kidney diseases much in advance. Biospectrum Asia, 04 January 2012 |
