Received this in my inbox a couple of hours back:
19 January 2010
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http://www.hk.jal.com/cms/contents/local/jal_news_4408.html
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To all our valued customers,
This is to confirm that Japan Airlines is now Read more…
Tags: Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan, JAL, Japan Airlines
Some of you might have read about a new investment which I just made which I couldn’t announce earlier.
I’ve finally completed the investment this month and it’s now official: I’m privileged to be able to advise and invest in the company which owns and operates Singapore’s most well-read entrepreneurship and startup site: SGEntrepreneurs.com (SGE).
SGE seeks to provide the most comprehensive coverage on Singapore’s startup and entrepreneurship scene and some of the startups featured in SGE have gone on to feature in renowned international sites like Mashable, TechCrunch, KillerStartups, folksonomy, Malaysia Entrepreneurs, etc.
You can read SGE’s announcement about this investment in their latest ’state of the site’ report as well as check out the updated team bio.
This geek is definitely looking forward to an exciting journey ahead working with the good folks at SGE and if you are a startup, an entrepreneur, or toying with the idea of starting out, do feel free to ping us and pop by often!
Tags: investment, SGE, SGEntrepreneurs
Totally unimaginable 2-3 years back, but the writing’s been on the wall for a while now.
ZDnet seems to think that it makes sense.
If it does happen, would be really interesting to see it’s impact to HP. It’d probably give mySQL a lot more mileage and acceptance, unlikely to do much for DB2 even if IBM kills mySQL.
Tags: acquisition, DB2, IBM, IBM buy Sun, mySQL, Sun
I read a Gartner report just 1-2 years back that Nortel was the market leader in Unified Communications (UC). That perception seemed to hold even as I talked to people in this industry over the past 1-2 years, although the CISCO/Microsoft UC solution set was always a very strong contender for market leadership.
For a while, I thought maybe Nortel was a company that could have a strong future in UC. Alas, Avaya took over the leadership recently and that seems to have sounded the death knell for Nortel as they file for Chapter 11. Another victim of the economic crisis? Or just the overdue death of a weak company?
Tags: avaya, chapter 11, CISCO, gartner, microsoft, nortel, uc, unified communications
Just put up an exclusive interview with the founder of Match.com and Interwoven. Read it at my CNET Asia blog here.
Tags: Interwoven, Match.com, Ong Peng Tsin, Silicon Valley
Big news I guess, hard to ignore - Jerry Yang, Co-founder of Yahoo! leaves as CEO!
Well, the way I see it (and I could be wrong), he’s just taking the fall for a failed M&A which shouldn’t be entirely his fault. But too bad they need a fall guy and he’s the one.
Isn’t it so typical of companies? A co-founder/director does a great job all the way from the start and is made to look like a complete villian because of some silly corporate decisions which he/she has to take the blame and leaves in shame? Seen it before, a bit too often.
So they wanna try merge with Microsoft again? Well, they now have an excuse. But If I’m Microsoft, I wouldn’t take the risk at this economic downturn and even if I wanted to, probably can’t find a bank that’ll lend me that much money. So if a deal is reached, my guess is that it’d be at a much lower valuation which might cause Yahoo!’s shares to drop further. Lose lose.
Shares can soar now, but my take is that it’d come tumbling down like a roller coaster in due time. What a waste for such a great company. Personally I think that the slimmest hope for the company now is to keep Jerry on the board of directors and hope that he’ll still contribute to the company’s growth and direction. Then again, that’s about as likely as asking Bill Gates to join back Microsoft, so… good luck Yahoo!
(Signing off from Seoul)
Li Ka Shing, the Hong Kong Tycoon who invested into facebook just announced the ‘Facebook phone‘ through one of his mobile network operator investments. Interesting… I guess this has been cooking since he invested into Facebook? But what would a facebook phone do? Sure sounds gimmicky to me. You decide.
(in Seoul, this post is pre-published)
Tags: facebook, li ka shing, phone
I was highlighted to this rather crazy news..the thing that interests me about this particularly is that just recently I actually joined the directorship of a local startup Qotion.com. Qotion currently has a business model rather similar to Bankrate’s as a internet finance startup comparing different bank products and rates, just like Bankrate’s 
Tags: 15million, bankrate, blog, internet finance, qotion, sales, web 2.0 finance
You and I both know this is not a financial blog. But this is after all about possibly the biggest fallout from Wall Street and news that concerns everyone, though not easy to understand. Friends and I have been talking about what will happen to Temasek’s investment in Merrill Lynch if Bank of Amercia (BofA) buys it out. How much will Temasek lose? The following news is from BusinessWeek :
Mondays better not get any more manic than this.
Wall Street expected to spend today trying to contain the damage from a bankruptcy filing by Lehman Brothers (LEH) after the fourth-largest investment bank failed to find a buyer for its broken balance sheet over the weekend. Read more…
Tags: AIG, American International Group, bank of america, Bear Stearns, BofA, LEH, lehman brothers, merrill lunch, Paulson Policy, temasek, Wall Street
How do you know corporate valuations are getting ridiculous especially with a loss-making social network like facebook? When a one-man social network is looking at a billion dollar valuation
But kudos to this social networking site, they are he is definitely a lot more successful than many others!
Tags: plenty of fish, Social Media, social networks, valuation
