For the better part of this year, what seemed to dominate news of the business world in terms of major company takeovers is the grand deal between The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox. Already approved by antitrust regulators and somewhere on the stage of finalization, this agreement would have Fox cede many of…
When the name Elon Musk is mentioned, two others tend to pop up in mind: Tesla Motors and SpaceX. The South African-born business magnate had established his prodigious entrepreneurial prowess in both the iconic electrical automaker and the private aerospace manufacturer and space transport service, among many other ventures such as tunneling service The Boring…
It can be said that there are two sorts of Chinese cuisine in the world, “Asian” Chinese and “American Chinese”. The latter is a historical development brought about by Chinese immigration to the US in centuries past, where they began adapting their traditional cooking practices and recipes to the available ingredients and their customers’ tastes.…
Before there was Starbucks, there was Dunkin Donuts. Well, that statement comes across as a bit of a stretch, but in a way that is how things appear. While the famous coffee chain was founded in 1971, Dunkin Donuts had its start earlier, in 1950. There was indeed at time when the chain’s dual offering…
India is often described as one of the last frontiers where the internet infrastructure has yet to be utilized to its utmost. That is not entirely true; it is merely that only now have major tech and online companies have begun to set up in that country, from Chinese smartphone manufacturers to American online marketplaces.…
Barring sudden unforeseen developments, the acquisition of choice assets from 21st Century Fox (movie studio and TV network among them) by Disney is pretty much a done deal. There is only detail that until recently has not been resolved, the matter of the UK-based pay TV giant Sky. That asset was part of the original…
For quite some time the Department of Transportation and Communications, now the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), has been musing over how the country’s commercial telecommunications market has been all but cleanly divided up into only two national corporations, PLDT/Smart and Globe Telecom. One way the DICT’s National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) sees to…
