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By TaiTran, August 27, 2012 6:53 pm

• Share price drops.
• The ban is only on legacy products. Galaxy S3 unaffected.
• $1b fine is too cheap to secure #2 position and #1 in China & Asia-Pacific.
• $1b fine is too cheap compared to $25b profit from copying since 2007.
• Good publicity: Samsung is set in consumers’ mind as #2 smart phone maker.

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By TaiTran, August 26, 2012 9:28 am

A comment on criticism by Carly Fiorina and Gordon Bethune.

The biggest challenge to Facebook right now is going mobile.

Effectively, Facebook is still in product development phase. It needs a war-time leader, a geek not a slick businessman.

The mobile app, mobile ecosystem industry is still growing without an emergence of a dominant giant. How many business CEO are there who are experienced to run a mobile company?

Mark would do well to take the advice of people who have done it before…

Carly Fiorina

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By TaiTran, August 24, 2012 10:59 am

Which one is your favorite?

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By TaiTran, August 22, 2012 4:45 am

Over 4 years after I speculated that it was unlikely McDonald’s would come to Vietnam, the giant fast food chain visited Vietnam to explore opportunities.

McDonald’s will find itself competing with:

1. Approximately 90 KFC stores
2. Approximately 90 Lotteria stores
3. Approximately 60 Pho 24 stores
4. Approximately 22 Jollibee stores, which owns 50% Highlands Food which owns Pho 24
5. Countless street food bread, sticky rice stalls and local noodle houses

This comes after Starbucks.

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