xinmsn was an
Internet portal featuring various news and entertainment information for
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
-based users. It was launched in March 2010 as a joint venture between
MediaCorp
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ...
and
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...
, and replaces the old iteration of MSN Singapore.
Since 1 April 2015, all operations on xinmsn has ceased. All operations have been moved to
Toggle
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and relaunched
MSN Singapore.
Content
xinmsn provides various types of information and news within the context of Singapore. Some of the more well-known content provided are:
* Local, regional and world news
* Entertainment news
* Weather information
* Catch-up TV (a service that allows viewers to browse and watch certain television programmes that they have missed)
* Live radio
* "Interactive" drama (a service for viewers to view drama shows shown only on xinmsn and vote on how the plot progresses)
The site also provides some information about the respective television and radio channels owned by MediaCorp.
References
External links
*
2010 establishments in Singapore
2015 disestablishments in Singapore
Mediacorp
xinmsn
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