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[Singapore][Event] Presidential Candidate Dr Tony Tan On Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

A couple of startup founders commented that government grants “pretend to be helpful but actually suck&# , to which Dr. Tan – who chaired the National Research Foundation (NRF) , an agency which disburses grants for innovation – replied that civil servants aren’t exactly the best when it comes to “picking winners&#.

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[Malaysia] [Event] InfoSecurity World 2012 – Combating The Rapid Rise In Cyber Threats

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This inaugural event was officiated by Y.A.Bhg Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (pictured right). The central theme of this event was the enhancement of information security against the rapid rise of cyber threats. It was reported that 70,000 new security threats are discovered daily globally.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

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Governments adopting the use of the Cloud. In addition to small businesses, cloud adoption by governments has been growing in the Asia region. Cloud computing will be used to deliver both services to citizens as well as to provide internal services to the government. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Join the Fray.

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[Event] [Singapore] Techventure 2011: A Sign of Increasing Asian Technology Innovation

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Global Money Flow – From the West to Asia. But those same words could easily be applied to the Singapore-based technology entrepreneurs present at Techventure 2011. “The incubator managers have been actively making their investments in a good number of high quality startups,” says Dr Francis Yeoh, the CEO of NRF.

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100+ Startups offering free products and services in response to Coronavirus

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For #1, there are calls for action coming from the EU and UK government to companies that can accelerate the manufacturing of respirators. Hopefully this helps inspire more action-oriented entrepreneurs to contribute to solving this global pandemic in whatever way they can. I removed spam and irrelevant entries.

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[Asia] Getting Cloud Computing Right The First Time

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Global companies like IBM, NEC, Cisco and Oracle were out in full force to share about Cloud Computing, providing a nod to the rapid growth in Cloud services in Asia. The Hong Kong government was out in full force at the event as well, sharing their challenges in putting together a case for Cloud adoption by the government.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

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The class is organized, led and delivered by Startup Weekend , the global non-profit that teaches entrepreneurs how to launch a startup in 54 hours. They’ve hosted close to 800 Startup Weekend events in over 350 cities worldwide educating a staggering 57,000 entrepreneurs who’ve created over 5,000 startups. How it Works.

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