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Rocket’s founders, the three German Samwer brothers, still have a reputation as cloners, flippers and operators of grueling, ruthless workplaces with high staff churn. Rocket executives readily acknowledge that their sites are copycats, usually of sites pioneered in the U.S. ...
In the race to wire all these homes Jasmine is mostly vying with True, backed by the deep pockets of Thailand’s richest clan, the Chearavanont family.
Another nail in the coffin: BlackBerry is no longer the only smartphone with the killer app that enabled its text users to chat with users of Symbian, iPhone and Android systems.
By Susan Cunningham Southeast Asia Globe As discount deal websites explode in the region, a Thai company shows how it's done. Deep-discount deal sites have been surging throughout the United States and Europe for almost three years, but they were late off the starting blocks in Southeast Asia – arriving only in mid-2010. Since then,... Continue Reading →
In Japan, digital music players haven't had a chance against the phone companies. Last year, mobile-phone downloads accounted for 91% of the country's $278 million in digital-music sales, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. In Korea the breakdown has been running 58% mobile to 42% online, according to the federation, but probably more than one-third of the online downloads were destined for a mobile phone.
Susan J Cunningham 