Vietnamese Google killer Xalo still searching for a solid strategy with a new design, can other Vietnamese search engines advise them?

A lot of Vietnamese search engines hope to become the Vietnamese version of Google, some Baidu and the remaining Naver. It turned out a good vision and a lot of money cannot make a good product, not to say a successful, solid, sustainable one.
Brand it like Ya-who!?
Xalo.vn might be the latest example. After its launching [...]

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TheGioiBan joined Facebook clone bandwagon, will it follow FaceViet?

It seems that the Fadbook for Vietnamese bandwagon has only just begun. After Guongmat, Tamtay, FaceViet, Zoomban (now stopped), new comer TheGioiBan.com (TGB) has just entered the market with some exciting features. It seems that TGB is the product of a group of overseas Vietnamese, as they revealed in a comment to my blog entry [...]

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My crazy comments on the future of Google

I wrote a comment on Google’s future recently on New York Times. Repost here for Vietnamese entrepreneurs as a food for thought. Some day I will come back with a fun prediction on who will be the Google of Vietnam.
WHY GOOGLE SHOULD BE WORTH MORE THAN P&G, MICROSOFT AND GE COMBINED
I would predict GOOG surpass [...]

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Zing Chat prepares to sword Yahoo Chat

VinaGame is final testing its Zing Chat IM for an official launch in early November. In fact they bought the popular QQ IM from Tencent and localized it for the Vietnamese market.
VinaGame is more known in Vietnam for its online game. Some PR work in Vietnamese media stated the company’s revenues at $40 million (amazing!). [...]

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