Bernard Leong

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Google has released an interesting statement today that in light of cyber security, they have decided not to censor search results on Google.CN and accept the possibility of shutting down the entire business operations if the Chinese government will not allow them to operate an unfiltered search engine. With a multi-national company of such magnitude having the possibility in moving out of China, what are the implications that one can explore in the realm of business? I will draw a couple of thoughts from history to examine this event. …

Should Facebook set up an Asian HQ via establishing a presence in Southeast Asia? With recent statistics demonstrating their dominance in the Southeast Asia market and a drip down effect into India, Cambodia and Vietnam, we provide the reasons why they should do so and the strategies how they can tackle a fragmented market like Southeast Asia.

The news is finally out: Google is to launch an operating system named as the Chrome OS (bearing the same name with the browser. As stated from the official Google blog: “The Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks…. will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.” Note also that the OS will run on both X86 and ARM chips and the operating system is running on top of a Linux kernel. Here are the three reasons why Google has decided to launch an operating system in the midst of a crowded space of competitors of not just Windows but Mac OS X and Linux as well (from a business perspective):

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Two months back, I broke the story regarding Facebook overtaking Friendster in Malaysia and predicted that the surrounding countries in the region will also fall after. After looking at an updated world map of leading social networks in the globe (by Vincenzo Cosenza – translator of Facebook Marketing Bible in Italian), the domino effect is continuing across the whole of Southeast Asia. Facebook has now overtaken Friendster in Southeast except Thailand and Phillipines. Note that Hi5 is still the most dominant social network in Thailand, and Phillipines remains to …

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After the talk in Unconference 2009, I have received some queries about social networking sites in China. Based on what I have known, Xiaonei is not the number 1 SNS in China, but 51.com. Other than these two top social networks, there are other social networks which are also dominant within the Great Wall. As Gang Lu mentioned during the panel that the Chinese internet landscape has now moved from cloning era to an reformation era, where the sites are innovating within after realizing that some of the cloned …