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M'sia wins votes for green IT incentives
News Industry players welcome US$443 million fund in 2010 budget to drive green IT, but opposition party unimpressed with government's initiatives to boost broadband.
Tags: Local Government, Taxes, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Funding, Business, Green IT, Small And Medium Enterprise, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband
New funding source for Malaysian startups
News Worth US$1.4 million, the Technopreneur Venture Management is aimed at fixing gap between pre-seed and seed funding, says its administrators.
Tags: Funding, Angel investing, Investments, Information And Communication Technology, Malaysia, venture capital, fund company, mIRC, Kuala Lumpur, venture-capital fund
Singapore's MDA rapped over conflict of interest
News Country's government agency chided by Auditor-General for allowing conflict of interest in its availing of funds to interactive digital media startups.
Tags: Funding, Audits, Digital media, TV, Singapore, Digital media, payment, Microsoft Office, audit, revenue
Microsoft files for debt offering
News The big question is what Microsoft, already flush with cash, might do with the money.
Tags: Funding, Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Debt, software company, working capital, business software company, business software, SEC, merger
Five tips for startups to secure capital funds
News update Despite downturn, Asia's promising startups can look forward to funding, but they need to do their homework before knocking on investors' doors, say experts.
Tags: Funding, Venture capital, Angel investing, Investments, Business, Chip, Investor, Asia-Pacific, life science, Israel
M'sian technopreneurs offered funding advice
News Technopreneur Association of Malaysia and Cradle Fund will give local tech innovators advice on how to enhance business ideas and qualify for investment funds.
Tags: Funding, Investments, Business, Idea, Malaysia, intellectual property, network, marketing, Kuala Lumpur, information technology
Fund will help alleged Swedish pirates hit by new law
News Pirate Bay spokesperson and Swedish politicians create fund to help alleged pirates fight accusations after the passage of new antipiracy law.
Tags: Piracy, Funding, Audio Book, Fund, Law, Piracy, Backup, Integrity Association, IP, Green
UK budget: US$1.1B cash injection for tech
News Digital technologies will share a US$1.1 billion fund to stimulate growth in the United Kingdom's "industries of the future".
Tags: Funding, Green IT, Pound, Investment, Telecommunications, Training, Manufacturing, Broadband, chancellor, financial
Malaysian tech startups get Microsoft boost
News Software giant will shell out US$84.8 million over three years and provide free software, to help startups and technopreneurs in Malaysia.
Tags: Funding, Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Business, Microsoft Corp., Start-up, Tool, Information And Communication Technology, Malaysia, Microsoft Developer Network
Another US$100 million for Twitter?
News Private equity firm T. Rowe Price and VC group Insight Venture Partners are leading the round, which will value the company at around US$1 billion, says report.
Tags: Web 2.0, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Dashboard, analytics, TechCrunch, founder, valuation, Wall Street Journal, mutual fund, Web 2.0
Govts urged to help SMEs through downturn
News APEC SME seminar recommends governments reserve part of their ICT procurement budgets toward enabling smaller businesses to ride out economic crisis.
Tags: Government, Funding, Innovation, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Asia-Pacific, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, Malaysia, Intellectual Property Right
US govt commits US$1.2B to energy R&D
News U.S. President Barack Obama cheers on green-tech businesses, announcing a big increase in energy-related research and a 10-year business tax credit for R&D spending.
Tags: Green IT, Funding, Government, Clean Technology, clean-tech industry, Research And Development Investment Tax Credit, tax credit, job, researcher, Holland
Tech transfer alliance widens global reach
News Singapore-based Technology Transfer Network adds six affiliate members from New Zealand, the United States, Canada and Germany--bringing total membership to 22.
Tags: Funding, Venture capital, R&D, Best strategies, Asia, Singapore, Europe, Germany, Canada, network
Are S'pore SMBs aware of IT help?
News More funding initiatives are available for Singapore's small and midsize firms to use for their ICT enhancements, but not all may be aware of such schemes.
Tags: Business, Funding, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Small And Medium Enterprise, Small And Medium Business, Business Process, co-founder, marketing, asset
OLPC slashes workforce in half, cuts salaries
News Founder of the project tasked with giving laptops to children in developing nations, blames tough economic times for restructuring.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Best strategies, Budgeting/cost control, Funding, Workforce, One Laptop Per Child Project, operating system, Salary, developing country, Microsoft Windows XP
