Breaking new ground the Vinova entrepreneurs want to help bring the art.tech world to people in Singapore, Asia and the world. Artchu is an online art site where anyone, literally anyone, can crowdsource emerging and talented artists (from anywhere around the world) to produce original art to exactly fit a person’s need, room, wall or lifestyle.
“Art should make you happy and productive, so we are giving people the ability to get the art they want, from talented artists, and exactly as they want it. It’s so simple, and everyone who’s tried it has had a great experience and gotten a perfect piece of original art for a fantastic price. And that makes them very happy” – said Mike, Artchu co-founder.
You can check out Artchu here: http://artchu.com
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“Bé Học Số” (Direct translation should be : Kids Learn Number) is an iphone app from Vinova team that helps kids from 1-to-3 years old to learn numbers. The little kids will learn the number visually via attractive colorful numbers and at the same time vocally via native English and Vietnamese voice. The app attracts helps kids in development of coordination between ears, fingers and brain through playing. It is now free on Apple App Store. Why not check it out?
Besides, if you have little kids, nieces or nephews, let them play 
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id489783351
App Screenshots:
Splash Screen
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Near field communication
Near field communication, or NFC, allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in close proximity to each other, usually by no more than a few centimeters. It is expected to become a widely used system for making payments by smartphone in the United States. Many smartphones currently on the market already contain embedded NFC chips that can send encrypted data a short distance (“near field”) to a reader located, for instance, next to a retail cash register. Shoppers who have their credit card information stored in their NFC smartphones can pay for purchases by waving their smartphones near or tapping them on the reader, rather than bothering with the actual credit card. Co-invented by NXP Semiconductors and Sony in 2002, NFC technology is being added to a growing number of mobile handsets to enable mobile payments, as well as many other applications.
The Near Field Communication Forum (NFC Forum) formed in 2004 promotes sharing, pairing, and transactions between NFC devices and develops and certifies device compliance with NFC standards. A smartphone or tablet with an NFC chip could make a credit card payment or serve as keycard or ID card. NFC devices can read NFC tags on a museum or retail display to get more information or an audio or video presentation. NFC can share a contact, photo, song, application, or video or pair Bluetooth devices.
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10gen, a company which offers enterprises a big data database built off of MongoDB, has raised $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gen’s other existing investors Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million.
Similar to the way Cloudera commercializes Apache Hadoop, 10gen offers a commercialized version of, and training and support for the open source database hosting NoSQL platform MongoDB. MongoDB is an open source, document-oriented database designed with both scalability and developer agility in mind.
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Testimonial for Mr Mike Nguyen, Founder of Vinova
I had the great fortune of knowing Mike Nguyen some three years back in the course of my work. He was then working for the vendor that my Company, Pan Country Driving Centre Pte Ltd, engaged for the maintenance of our in-house application system.
Actually, Mike Nguyen was supporting another client of the same vendor that happened to use a very similar system and only covered his duties when the staff in charge of my Company was not around. Nonetheless, we still found Mike Nguyen very willing and most helpful.
Mike Nguyen, was accommodating as a person. Both diligent and efficient as a worker. Our Company was often delighted with his quick response and fast service in time of needs! His friendly disposition also helped in easy communication. With his strong Information Technology Master Degree background, no problem was too big for him and at times that he did not have a ready answer, he did his own research and humbly asked for more time.
Thank you, Mike Nguyen, for all the kind assistance!
And Congratulations too! I know a person of your character and calibre is destined for greater things and you have proven me right by being a partner of the new start-up, Vinova, so soon! Well done, Mike Nguyen !
Susan Ang
Admin Officer
Pan Country Driving Centre Pte Ltd
Tel : 62612246
Email : susanangkh01@yahoo.com
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