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S'pore tops Asian Internet awards nominations
By Nawaz Marican, CNET.com
SINGAPORE--The inaugural Internet World Asia Industry Awards will witness a close tie between Singapore and Hong Kong Internet companies.
Awards organizer Penton Media Inc announced the 58 finalists (including companies and individuals) in 12 categories today.
Singapore led the pool with 21 nominations, followed by Hong Kong (18), China (7), India (6), Malaysia (3) and one from Japan, Korea and Pan Asia each.
"We are pleasantly surprised by our nomination. We hope that we will continue to deliver and make an impression on the Asian Internet scene," said Patrick Grove, chief executive officer of Catcha.com. The company was nominated the Hottest New Face of the Internet.
In the Internet Service Provider of the Year category, newcomer StarHub Internet beat its more experienced counterparts in Singapore--SingNet and Pacific Internet--for a nomination seat.
"The nomination itself is an honor. This is going to put us in an advantageous position when talking to potential content partners so as to deliver better value added services to our customers in Singapore," said StarHub Internet general manager, Tan Tong Hai.
The panel of judges comprising 20 of Asia's leading Internet journalists, analysts and academics will select the winners based on a range of factors that varies from category to category and the awards will be given out on March 2 in Singapore.
The finalists in the 12 categories are as follows:
Internet Company of the Year
• Advanced Manufacturing Online (Singapore)
• Asiatravelmart.com (Malaysia)
• Boom.com (Hong Kong)
• Microland.net (India)
• Outblaze.com (Hong Kong)
Internet Visionary of the Year
• Pradeep Kar, CEO, Microland (India)
• Wong Toon King, Chairman & CEO, Advanced Manufacturing Online (Singapore)
• Yat Sui, CEO, Outblaze (Hong Kong)
• William Ding, Founder, Netease (China)
• Charles Huang, Founder, Netbig.com (China)
Hottest "New Face" of the Internet
• Netbig.com (China)
• Surfgold.com (Singapore)
• Tom.com (Hong Kong)
• Catcha.com (Singapore)
• dollarDEX.com (Singapore)
Best B2B Internet Site
• Advanced Manufacturing Online (Singapore)
• Global Sources (Singapore)
• Alibaba.com (Hong Kong)
• Asia Capacity Exchange (Hong Kong)
• MeetChina.com (China)
Best B2C Internet Site
• Discvault.com (Singapore)
• dollarDEX.com (Singapore)
• Boom.com (Hong Kong)
• Collective Juice.com (Singapore)
• Haansoft.com (Korea)
Killer Application of the Year
• 3721.com (China)
• Big Red Wire (Hong Kong)
• Easydiary.com (India)
• Justlogin (Singapore)
• Commontown.com (Singapore)
Hottest Internet Hardware Product of the Year
• Creative Technology Ltd (Singapore)- Nomad and Soundblaster
• Ziplabs Pte Ltd (Singapore) - Zappee 3000
• Valence Technology (Hong Kong) - SRSlabs.com
Best Design Shop/Designer
• Pandora Interactive (Singapore)
• Planetasia.com (Bangalore)
• Aretae.com (Singapore)
• Lemon.com (Hong Kong)
• Media Explorer (Hong Kong)
Best E-Commerce Company
• Asia Travel Network (Malaysia)
• Cybertouch Asia (Malaysia)
• First Ecom (Hong Kong)
• iMerchants Ltd (Hong Kong)
• Wizoffice (Singapore)
Investor/Venture Capitalist of the Year
• Asiatech Ventures (Singapore)
• Pacific Century Cyberworks (Hong Kong)
• Softbank Asia (Japan)
• Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong)
• Incubasia (Hong Kong)
Internet Service Provider of the Year
• Starhub (Singapore)
• Satyaminfoway (India)
• Cable & Wireless HKT (Hong Kong)
• Capital Online (China)
• Jitong (China)
The Impact Award for Charitable Contribution to the Net Community
• IandIAsia.com (Pan Asia)
• Webgrrls HK (Hong Kong)
• Archives Resource Community (India)
• Panasia Networking (Singapore)
• Enable 2000 (Singapore)
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