In Asia, e-business is even more preponderant than in America and it is likely to stay that way.
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She is the founder of Silicon Asia, an e-newsletter, consulting and events group focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital.
In 1997 he started Boom.com, Asia's first e-broker, in Hong Kong.
Simple economics suggests that the 40-fold increase in, er, e-commerce does not mean that Asia's struggling economies will grow by the same.
But before you start shorting the stocks of stodgy old companies slow to the Net, consider that it will be some time--a long time--before e-commerce really pays off across Asia.
Should a company like Gazprom, for example, lose access to the U.S. bond market on a sustained basis, it would not only pay more for the funds it raises elsewhere (e.g. in Europe or Asia) but would likely find itself unable to attract the volume of funds required to meet its development needs.
On the Guinness Atkinson site, for example, investors can subscribe to monthly "e-Briefs" with focuses such as Asia and alternative energy.
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In addition, the 10.8-inch Sharp Galapagos tablet has arrived at the FCC from Asia, a large Linux-based e-reader.
"The International Finance Center is Hong Kong's premier IT address, " says Lane Leskela, research director for e-commerce intelligence services at Gartner Group (Asia Pacific).
And, in spite of Dr. Mahathir's grand Muli-Media Corridor idea, the country is also lagging behind much of developed Asia in technology, Internet development, e-commerce etc.
Tiffany currently operates about 274 stores (115 in the Americas, 65 in Asia-Pacific, 55 in Japan, 34 in Europe and five in the U.A.E.), compared with 246 stores (102 in the Americas, 57 in Asia-Pacific, 55 in Japan and 32 in Europe) a year ago.
It may not be long before Amazon and other e-tailers export their increasingly sharp marketing models to Asia, says Visa's Perlman.
But how fully Asia is able to participate in the "e-tailing" of cyberspace is still very much in doubt, at least in the short term.
You know, Casio ain't the only game in town when it comes to these e-dictionary units that seem to be so popular in Asia.
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And in South Asia, around India, we endeavor to contain Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani-based extremist organization that threatens India, attacked Mumbai, and we find ourselves working with partners in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Maldives to build their capacities to deal with this organization independently.
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In 2012, Southeast Asia leading online games payment provider, MOL AccessPortal, formed an e-commerce payment company, MOLPay.
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He identifies Asia and Europe as the source of a large percentage of the world's junk e-mail, as well as other countries that are well insulated from American prosecution and lack strong cybercrime laws.
The company currently operates 275 stores (115 in the Americas, 66 in Asia-Pacific, 55 in Japan, 34 in Europe and five in the U.A.E.), compared with 247 stores a year ago.
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