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Mark your calendar 19 Jan 2010 - the date when SUN finds its new destiny
The current European competition policy stipulates that M&As and JVs need to be subject to its approval process, if certain conditions are met, as part of its Councial Regulation (1989). The general criteria is if the total global turnover ...
European Commission objects to the SUN acquisition deal by Oracle
In Oct, I raised a bet that Oracle would be able to get a green light from the EC regarding its acquisition of SUN. Well, the news that EC issued a statement of objections against it for competition concerns has certainly raised a few eyebrows ...
Are Americans becoming socially isolated - result from a US survey?
Today, I came across a survey 'Social Isolation and New Technology' published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Though I am not familiar with it and according to the information from its website, it is "one of seven projects that make up...
Social Media tidbits - McKinsey in Facebook
I received a copy of the Nov issue of the McKinsey Newsletter in my mailbox this morning. As expected, it publish articles in various areas that provokes thinking and feeds nutrients into the cerebral cortex. As China has been touted as t...
If Facebook is a country, it\'d be the worlds\' 4th largest - a 4-minute clip that puts Social Media in real terms
I came across this video from the Teachertube which tells us how widespread of Social Media has become. The numbers shown are just staggering and huge no matter which scale we use to measure it. Following is some of the numbers quoted out of th...
Why 97 percent, Twitter?
In the Web 2.0 Summit this week in San Francisco, Dan Frommer wrote up an interview between Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, and John Battelle. Some of the comments that Williams made caught my eyes wide open.The one question that stands out is w...

