Entrepreneurship
54 Stories
Technopreneurial spirit key to creating value
News Singapore sees need to cultivate technopreneurship among students as global IT industry remains relatively resilient despite economic climate, say educators.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Venture capital, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, e-mail, knowledge, entrepreneur, industry, information technology, entrepreneurial
Robotics a catalyst for technology advancement
News Singapore educator touts robotics as platform to spur tech-savvy students to be innovative, and pick up technological skills relevant in commercial world.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Components, Battery, Robotics, Student, Electronics, Singapore, Storage, Republic Polytechnic, Hardware
Bringing online marketing to life
News Dream Axis founder, Winne Soh, talks about the marketing green field of virtual spaces and her hopes for growing Singapore's 3D talent.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Digital media, Training, Singapore, 3D, Digital media, career, marketing, founder, Second Life
A bull market for social entrepreneurs
News Amid a woeful jobs market, Stanford grads are starting their own companies, many of them with hopes of changing the world.
Tags: Web 2.0, Entrepreneurship, Corporate responsibility, Cell Phone, phone, network, entrepreneur, patient, health care, Stanford
Asia needs more open source contribution
News While companies are adopting open source software enthusiastically, there are far fewer companies offering related services in the region, says industry luminary.
Tags: Open source, Entrepreneurship, Software, Software engineering/development, Open-source Software, Database, software company, Sun Microsystems Inc., co-founder, marketing
Tim Draper: Now's the 'best time' to start a business
News Venture capitalist Timothy Draper says that despite the recession, now is a great time to start a new business.
Tags: Venture capital, Entrepreneurship, Adobe Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., General Electric Co., Investor, Stock, Coca-Cola Co., Seattle, Venture capital
'Green shoots of recovery in the UK? What green shoots?'
News CIOs from a range of sectors and industries believe that reports of green shoots of a U.K. economic recovery poking through are premature.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Director Of Information Technology, IT Manager, consumer confidence, CIO, Silicon.com, U.K., core competency, Recovery, industry
Obama meets with technology CEOs
News A handful of chief executives in the industry, including IBM's Sam Palmisano and Motorola's Greg Brown, meet with U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss the economy.
Tags: Federal Government, Hardware, Software, Investments, Entrepreneurship, Venture capital, Business plans, Motorola Inc., Applied Materials Inc., Samuel J. Palmisano
Thailand enters Gartner's Top 30 offshore service providers
News However, there are several urgent steps that the Thai government should take if Thailand is to fully take advantage of the country's outsourcing potential.
Tags: Newbie, Personal broadband, Business broadband, Change mangement, Entrepreneurship, Politics, Outsourcing, India, Thailand, Information And Communication Technology
Execs predict next Google-like tech
News On eve of company's 10-year anniversary, researchers and business pundits speculate about what technologies might someday have as much impact as Google.
Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Google Inc., phone, co-founder, Esther Dyson, professor, researcher, Internet, data center
Gates: Every surface to be a computer
News At CEO Summit, Microsoft chairman says new user interfaces, particularly touch, will change the "individual's office, the home, the living room".
Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Hardware, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft TouchWall, Midas Inc., Computer, Microsoft PowerPoint, laser
IBM bets on Brazilian innovation
News Big Blue's new initiative to stimulate development of Brazil's nascent tech industry is the latest sign of the country's rising power.
Tags: Hardware, Consumer Technology, IBM Corp., India, Training, Innovation, venture capital, entrepreneur, China, private equity
Ballmer says venture freeze will spare startups in key fields
News Though the pullback in venture capital investing will winnow the field of startups, “there’s really not a better time to start a business”, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells a Stanford University audience.
Tags: Venture capital, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, oil & gas, National Venture Capital Association, computer, software, alternative energy, CEO, Stanford
Take lessons in entrepreneurship?
Blogs Entrepreneurship is the hot new course being offered in many universities around the world. For example, Nanyang Tech...
Tags: Business plans, IT Management, Entrepreneurship, Venture capital
Salesforce to open incubation centers
News With the first of such facilities worldwide to be ready within a year, CEO Marc Benioff says move is aimed at driving software development on AppExchange.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Software engineering/development, Sales force automation, Supply chain management (SCM), Utility computing
