Archive for November, 2007
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Playing online is a hobby for a lot of people around the globe nowadays. Technology revolves so fast everyday theres an innovation to every gadgets that gadget manufacturers like nokia the famous mobile company in the whole world. And a lot of games online are popping out the famous online games here in Asia are […]
Best Shopping Cart Software
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007A lot of webmasters don’t know how to manage their online products due to lack of knowledge when it comes to managing their digital or tangible products. What they don’t know is there are a lot of shopping cart softwares to use. So it will not be too confusing if a lot of people buys […]
China makes it harder for publishers
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007There’s a good post of the China Law Blog today in which they reveal details of the new Catalog for the Guidance of Foreign Invested Enterprises (Revised 2007) or 外商投资产业指导目录（2007 年修订) from the National Development and Reform Commission in China.
Of particular note to publishers (print and online) is this section:
Continued restriction and prohibition of participation […]
You don’t need a fancy venue
Monday, November 12th, 2007Fun post here on the 2point6billion.com blog (that’s China plus India’s population in case you wonder where the number comes from) on the “biggest trade fair of the greater Himalayas”. The Lavi Trade Fair has, apparently, been going since the late 17th Century and is living proof that business will be done where […]
Conferences on my mind
Monday, November 12th, 2007As an organiser and consumer of conferences, they are often on my mind. I am aware that there is a degree of dissatisfaction with the “PowerPoint and talking heads” model and that most of the interesting interactions at most events take place outside the conference room itself (by the pool, at coffee breaks, […]
Kenfair explained…sort of
Friday, November 9th, 2007There is a magnificently complicated document on Kenfair’s website today. The legal masters of obfuscation have been burning the midnight oil.
Shares are trading again (and are up $0.15 at HK$1.30 as we speak) and a deal has been done which will see the shareholdings substantially restructured. I prepared the mindmap you can see here to […]
DH Gate puts prices up front
Thursday, November 8th, 2007I met Celina Chen when she spoke on the same panel as me at ad:tech in Beijing a couple of weeks ago. She is COO of DHGate.com of which, I’m afraid to say, I wasn’t previously aware.
This is a catch-up week and I’ve just looked. It’s a very interesting twist on the B2B sourcing model […]
Kenfair suspended again
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Our favourite coal mining and trade fairs conglomerate, Kenfair, has just announced that it has suspended its shares again. Having missed the market’s 30% rise when they did the same thing in late September, pending acquisition of the coal mine (!), they now seem set to miss the ride back down.
This time they say the […]
The right price?
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Citibank has upped its price target for Global Sources to 40x 2008 projected earnings. That pushes to price target about $10 above its current position to $45.
A similar valuation would imply that, even 9% down as it is today, Alibaba is over-valued by about 3.5 times. And that's based on very optimistic projections for next […]
Alibaba moves into events
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007They now, of course, have enough money to buy the whole Chinese coal-mining industry (see here if the reference isn’t clear to you). So far, however, it seems that our friends at Alibaba are going to stick to their core business and focus on providing B2B media services.
As expected, and frequently denied, the company is […]