By Susan J. Cunningham Forbes Asia Philippine Long-Distance Telephone's 8.6% stake in Rocket Internet is a no-brainer: Telecom and Internet giant PLDT is a pioneer in online and mobile payments, and Rocket’s own payment system, Payleven, quickly foundered in 2012 when the first Rocket e-commerce sites were being established in Asia. For many poorer residents... Continue Reading →
* Keeping Up With Rocket’s Southeast Asian Adventures
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. ...
* Pete Bodharamik Goes Big on Broadband—Forbes Asia
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.
* BlackBerry’s days are numbered—Business Report Thailand
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.
* Coupon clash—Southeast Asia Globe
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 →
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