Bernard Leong

Should Facebook set up an Asian HQ via establishing a presence in Southeast Asia? With recent statistics demonstrating their dominance in the Southeast Asia market and a drip down effect into India, Cambodia and Vietnam, we provide the reasons why they should do so and the strategies how they can tackle a fragmented market like Southeast Asia.

Yesterday, I have delivered a seminar entitled “Building Online Communities: Strategies, Tools and Trends” for the Masters students in Technopreneurship and Innovation (创业与创新硕士课程).

Some time back, the Prime Minister of Singapore announced a few sweeping changes to the election system to encourage more dissenting voices within the Parliament in Singapore. He proposed the following changes namely:
(1) Permanency and Number of Nominated Members of Parliament in the Singapore Political System: Nominated Members of Parliament will feature as a permanent fixture in the parliament. The number of NMPs are fixed at 9. In addition, the Constitution and the Elections Act will be changed to allow a maximum of 9 Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs). …

My visit to the Symbian Foundation, London on 27 July 2009.

In the past two months, I have been invited to a couple of events under the sponsorship with Nokia Singapore via Text100 Singapore. In the process, it opened up new business opportunities like arranging entrepreneurs from my existing portfolio to see what can be developed for Ovi Store, funding new applications relating to the Ovi Store and also consumer interactions with the people from Nokia. Recently, I received a gift from Nokia during a meeting with their corporate communications team three weeks back and it’s the Nokia N97 with full disclosure. Here are some of the initial impressions and some things I discover about the Nokia N97 while learning about applications on different mobile phone vendors and operating systems.