Another Hong Kong infomediary, Arena, boosts shipyard efficiency by enabling shippers, exporters and manufacturers share information.

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Last month, I noted that in the decade since that initial attention, all those infomediary companies have gone bust.

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The San Francisco-based start-up is attempting something that was attempted before about a decade ago during the dot-com boom: to act as an infomediary between consumers and advertisers.

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