Hans Lombardo

A popular bilingual employment Web site in China, Zhaopin, is earning ten times the revenue it earned in one year ago. Zhaopin averages 30-40,000 pages per day, considered excellent in China’s nascent market, and advertises more than 800 jobs at a time. “The great thing about Zhaopin is that it is run by an executive […]

Hongkong Telecom has leased capacity on US firm INTELSAT’s 702 satellite for an Internet backbone link. The Asian telecom will use a 45 mbps channel on the satellite for carrying data from the United States to Hong Kong and a cable link for data going the other way. According to Joseph Ma, Hongkong Telecoms director […]

With the Adfinity adserving system, the Asian venture of 24/7 Media is expanding its ad network in Asia by making ground in Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, China and Singapore. The ad server solutions provider has its regional headquarters in Hong Kong and sales offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore. The company has an aggressive plan […]

In Singapore, a 19-year-old Web master has been arrested by authorities for alleged involvement in organized crime. According to local press reports, Singaporean Lester Chang was listed as the creator of a Web site dedicated to a well-known triad leader. He potentially faces a heavy fine and a jail sentence. The site, in English and […]

US firm Cisco Systems, Inc. is providing Internetworking solutions to four prominent service providers in China. “Service providers in China clearly recognize the advantages of optical Internetworking,” said Graeme Fraser, general manager of Cisco’s Optical Internetworking Business Unit. “These providers are building networks that will ensure China’s significant role in the Internet economy.” According to […]

Hong Kong is poised to become Asia’s leading e-commerce distribution center, according to a leading venture capitalist. “Hong Kong has tremendous strengths for e-commerce,” said Hanson Cheah, executive director of AsiaTech Ventures. “It has been the Asian headquarters for many things. It is a wonderful place for distribution from, with its world class logistics.” AsiaTech […]

On the last day of 1998, Orientation added a Thai country portal to its rapidly growing international network of portals. “This is the perfect culmination to a feature packed year for Orientation,” said company spokesman Phil Ingram. “We have launched six regional products and six country products in six months – that is an average […]

Outblaze, a startup partially backed by Hongkong.com Studios, formally launched Instant Portal, a solution for Web sites that want to provide their own branded portal services. Instant Portal’s services include e-mail, message boards, mailing list and chat facilities, all of which can be labeled by Web sites. Sign up for Instant Portal is free but […]

Wisers Information Ltd., a technology based startup founded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in July 1998, is actively looking for capital injection. “We definitely need venture capital,” said Ringo Lam, the chief executive officer of Wisers. “Although the University paid for the development costs of the technologies, we only got HK$1 million to […]

Singapore-based consortium StarHub has successfully concluded its purchase agreement for complete ownership of CyberWay, one of Singapore’s three Internet service providers. “This acquisition of an IASP [Internet Access Service Provider] is in line with our business plan to be a totally integrated info-communications company,” said Graham Moore, chairman of StarHub’s senior management team. “I wish […]

A leading European provider of Web-based e-mail, X and Mail, is seeking to develop business in Asia, particularly in Hong Kong and China, for its Xwebmail software. In January, the French software firm is touring Asia to look for potential partners to customize Xwebmail for use with 16-bit Asian characters. “We feel that these markets […]

AT&T Jens, a Japan-based commercial ISP and joint venture between AT&T and 25 Japanese companies, has reduced the international call rates for AT&T@phone Internet telephony and fax services offered in Japan. Available now, the rate reductions cover 16 popular international destinations among the 130 countries accessible with the service. Rates to the US have been […]