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Outblaze CEO Yat Siu to speak at MaD

On Sunday January 23, 2011, Outblaze founder and CEO Yat Siu will attend Make A Difference (MaD) 2011 to give an intriguing speech at one of Hong Kong’s leading annual youth forums. MaD provides an international creative platform in which students and young adults can meet change makers and learn how they too can make […]

Outblaze keynote on Game Analytics at Games Innovation Conference 2010

On Thursday 23rd December, 2010, Outblaze’s Group Operations Director, Peter Burton, is giving a keynote speech at the IEEE Games Innovation Conference at the City University of Hong Kong. The subject is Game Analytics and why it should matter to anyone in the field of gaming. Game Analytics is crucial to the success of any […]

Pumpkin Carving Competition for Halloween

With so many great artists in residence at Outblaze, what better way to celebrate Halloween than with a pumpkin carving competition?   We had a lot of fun in our Hong Kong office with this. Here’s the line-up of entries: And here are our judges hard at work trying to choose the best from so […]

Hello Kitty's Birthday Cheer

We are happy to announce the launch of a new Hello Kitty Online event. Hello Kitty’s Birthday Cheer is a birthday celebration with a charity component – something we do regularly for HKO. Hello Kitty will be 36 years old on November 1. This in-game event will benefit the charity Save the Children, which is working to […]

IBM officially opens Cloud Computing Lab in Hong Kong thanks to Outblaze

Today I attended IBM’s ceremony announcing the opening of the first IBM Cloud Computing Laboratory in Hong Kong. The event was well attended by industry leaders, media, analysts, IBM’s major partners, and senior government including Mr John Tsang, Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government. As Mr Tsang put it in his speech, the lab is […]

Young Entrepreneur Award for Outblaze CEO Yat Siu

We are coming up to the end of 2009, and ’tis the season to win awards! Once again, Outblaze has worked diligently not to disappoint its fans. Earlier in the year, we nabbed the Company of the Year Award at the ComputerWorld Hong Kong Awards, as described in my previous blog post. Last night, Outblaze […]

Come meet Marko Ahtisaari, CEO of Dopplr and Web Visionary (plus new iPhone App!)

We’ve thrown together an impromptu event in honour of Marko Ahtisaari, who will be here in Hong Kong Tuesday evening (June 23). Marko is the CEO of the business travel social network Dopplr, which helps users take advantage of collective and current intelligence on travel destinations. Marko is an ex philosophy professor, a blogger, Web […]

Outblaze wins Tech Company of the Year at CWHK Awards

Outblaze has been named Tech Company of the Year at the 2009 ComputerWorld Hong Kong Awards. Click to read the award article. The award scheme, organized by CWHK, is a yearly event to recognize the best Enterprise-class products and services in the territory’s IT market. The categories are hardware, storage, networking & communications, security, software, […]

BarCamp Hong Kong 2008 (September 6)

Come, speak and learn at BarCamp Hong Kong! The user-generated conference is back in the city that really never sleeps. This event will be bigger and better than the first one, held last December, so don’t miss it. As was the case with the first BarCamp Hong Kong, Outblaze is a proud sponsor and supporter. […]

Firefox 3 kick-off party

  It’s been in development for 34 months, contains somewhere in the region of 15,000 changes, and it is 100% organic software: these are just a few of the reasons expectations were high for the release of the new version of Firefox. To celebrate the launch of Mozilla‘s Firefox 3 the Opensource Application Knowledge Association […]