Hans Lombardo

[SINGAPORE] Cybersia.com (SEA) Pte Ltd. soft-launched a global Chinese community site, Chineseroots.com, in Singapore on Friday. Like renren.com, Sina.com and China.com, Chineseroots.com hopes to capture a chunk of the 50 million overseas Chinese population. The Web site features 10 content channels : Homo Sapiens, Affairs of the Heart, Ink & Paper, Take A Break, Eat […]

NASDAQ-traded Adaptive Broadband Corp. has secured a US$6 million contract from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to deploy Adaptive’s Multimedia Integrated Digital Access System (MIDAS), a satellite-based technology for automatic circuit restoral of terrestrial data networks. ICBC will use MIDAS to back up the its terrestrial network of leased fiber optic Digital […]

iLink.net, a 80-20 joint venture between Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited (PCCW) and Dotcom Pacific Limited, launched its Internet data center in Hong Kong. With the data center and managed data services, iLink.net intends to exploit the exponential growth of electronic commerce in Asia. The company is targetting e-commerce vendors, corporate co-locators, Internet service providers, Internet […]

Internet World Asia, owned by Penton Media, is bringing its successful Internet device fashion display to its Hong Kong show. The fashion exhibit, a big hit at the Internet World Fall show in New York City, will be held at 1999’s Internet World Asia at Hong Kong, hosted in the Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition […]

Talks for an alliance between a Hong Kong broadcasting company and a Chinese government national television company could thwart Pacific Century’s cable Internet strategy. The possible tie-up between Hong Kong television company Televisions Broadcasting Ltd (TVB) and China Central Television (CCTV), China’s state-owned national television company may play havoc with Pacific Century CyberWorks attempts to […]

San Francisco-based MyWeb Inc announced Thursday that it will introduce its set-top boxes in the Shanghai region next month. The company says it will also introduce its TV portal localized for users in the same area. MyWeb introduced its services in Beijing in July and the company claims that up around 90 percent of all […]

Hong Kong newspaper mogul Jimmy Lai said Thursday that there was no immediate prospect for Internet businesses in China. In a press conference, Lai said that he would concentrate on developing his Internet business in the Hong Kong market. Lai is well known for provoking the ire of the Beijing Government by printing controversial articles […]

Is Hong Kong’s stock market finally going to get a real Internet company? Sources indicate that China.com Corp. (CCC), the second Asian Internet company to list on NASDAQ, is contemplating spinning off Hongkong.com on to one of the Hong Kong boards. To bring Hongkong.com public, observers say that CCC is contemplating whether to conduct a […]

As part of its regional expansion plans, Cable & Wireless Tuesday announced the launch of its Internet business in South Korea. The Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Information and Communications has awarded Cable & Wireless Asia with a licence to provide Internet access and value-added services. The telecom is targetting business customers in Korea with […]

DoubleClick Inc., a leading Internet advertising network in the U.S., has announced the formation of DoubleClick Asia with operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and mainland China. To set up the DoubleClick Asia, the company formed a joint venture with regional Internet play AsiaContent.com Ltd. which, sources say, controls 55 percent of the venture. DoubleClick […]

Asia Capacity Exchange (ACE), a regional online market place for telecom capacity, has expanded its offerings to include a bandwidth trading service. Through ACE, deals can now be struck for bandwidth throughout the Asia Pacific and between Asia Pacific and other global destinations, including TPC-5, NPC, US-China and US-Japan cables. The launch of the bandwidth […]

CyberWorks Ventures Ltd, the venture arm of regional broadband player Pacific Century CyberWorks, will through an investment of HK$39 million (US$5 million) subscribe to 5 percent of CASH On-line, an online stockbroker and financial information provider. CASH On-line is a 85 percent owned subsidiary of Celestial Asia Securities Holdings Limited (CASH Group), an established trading […]