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US regulator warns of Facebook pre-IPO scams
AFP, Published on 16/03/2011
» A US financial regulator warned investors on Tuesday to be wary of con artists peddling non-existent shares in social media companies such as Facebook ahead of their going public.
Paypal to help set up e-commerce hub in China mega-city
AFP, Published on 30/12/2010
» US online payment service Paypal has agreed to help set up an international e-commerce hub in southwestern China as more foreign companies cash in on the country's fast-growing Internet sales market.
Thailand's sunrise and sunset industries
Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/12/2010
» Health care, automobiles and food and beverages are all set to become more important "sunrise industries", while textiles will likely become less important in Thailand.
Word of honour
Database, Published on 08/12/2010
» Chairman Areepong Bhoocha-oom of your ToT promised to quit if the auction for 3G expansion does not take place in the next two weeks and two days; Mr Areepong, who also is the permanent secretary of the Finance Ministry, staked his word of honour and a considerable second income on the outcome of the agency's ability to organise bidding before New Year's Day on an estimated 19 billion baht worth of work to make ToT the ultimate word in 3G service in a world moving to 4G service; he promised that the contracts for the work will be signed in February; most people already know the winners of the contracts.
Will customs reform move forwards in Thailand?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/11/2010
» Paying special bonuses to government officials for "fines levied against the private sector" has "actually encouraged distortions and contributed to corruption."
Blowing it all, almost
Database, Published on 11/08/2010
» Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd fuelled one of the year's best stories in technology, with a low-life achievement of the non-technology type; he faked expense accounts and acknowledged sexual harassment - but not actual relations - with an employee; Hurd make his reputation as an incredibly good CEO who took HP back to the top in almost all fields, and then the married father of two blew it all; well, make that "almost all" and only including the reputation; Hurd will have to struggle along on the $28 million "golden parachute" deal he got by resigning - $12.2 million in severance pay and 350,000 shares of HP stock, in all just a little short of 900 million baht; of course some of that will go towards what the smarmy ex-CEO called a "settlement" with the woman he harassed, who in turn said nice things about how surprised and saddened she was that Hurd was dumped from HP.