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Through SingTel, after they have signed the agreement with Apple to bring iPhone to Singapore sometime this year.

What about Starhub’s customer? Can get or not?

10 months of football, 10 times Manchester United have won it, and 10 more days to another Champions League final. WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO !!!!!

Scored the most goals, conceded the least, has the league top scorer in Cristiano Ronaldo, worthy champions once again

For those who need their daily dose of Indonesian sinetron or any other movies that are only available in Indonesia will have their wish granted by Starhub. They mentioned “The channel showcases the best programmes from top Indonesian channels RCTI (Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia), TPI (Televisi Pendidikan Indonesia) and Global TV, and viewers can look forward to news and entertainment programmes such as Indonesian sitcoms, mega sinetron (cinema electronic/ TV soap), variety shows, documentaries, music and reality shows.“

The announcement from Starhub here.

What do you do if you have $44.6 billion in cash and stock? Buy Yahoo!. *gosh* how many zeros are there?

I’m sure this is a move to rival the increasing dominance of Google in the Internet space. What will happen to Yahoo! Mail, Flickr, Yahoo Groups after Microsoft has bought Yahoo!? *wondering*

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion…… Today, the market is increasingly dominated by one player who is consolidating its dominance through acquisition.

Read Microsoft PressPass announcement of this proposal to buy Yahoo!

What do you think about it? Is it for the better that instead of Google vs Microsoft vs Yahoo! now, it’ll soon be Google vs Microsoft + Yahoo!?

There are LOTS of wealthy people in the world, but not many of them uses their wealth for other than themselves or their family. Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett are two of the most wealthy people in the world, and whose life can serve as a good example to all of us on how to spend our wealth. I just finished reading Melinda Gates goes public article, and felt kinda overwhelmed on what they are doing for the world. Bill Gates will retire from Microsoft in June this year, and he will concentrate on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation currently has assets of $37.6 billion, have gotten $3.4 billion and will get an additional $41 billion from Buffett. I’ve read enough about wives of very rich husbands who spends their money lavishly, but Melinda Gates doesn’t seem to be such woman. If you read that article, you can see how passionate she is with helping very poor people in Africa and India infected with AIDS and other diseases that has no cure now.

Tell me, how many super wealthy people have that passionate heart to put their hand on one young woman suffering from AIDS and tuberculosis who was “just bones” in Calcutta? How many woman can make the richest man in the world to be less lopsided and more compassionate about the well-being of poor people half-a-globe away from US? The more I read that article, the more I’m impressed with Melinda Gates.

Another good point that I can pick up from that article is how they raised and educated their kids. I’ve also read enough stories about wealthy parents who didn’t educate their kids well enough by giving them too much money. “The Gates children are reaching the age where they want to understand their parents’ passions. In 2006, Melinda and Bill took the two oldest children to South Africa, showing them slums and an orphanage in Cape Town.” I’m sure that trip alone will have a big impact in their children’s heart. When you have LOTS of money, should you give all to your children? I don’t think so. Let me pick up the last paragraph from that article. “As Bill says about their children, “They know the money is overwhelming.” And of course the kids have asked whether their parents will provide for them as generously as they do for those poor people who receive their billions. “We say, ‘You’ll be fine. You’ll still be very well-off,’” Bill says. While he and Melinda plan to give away 95% of their wealth in their lifetimes, they have not yet decided how much of what’s left will go to the children. Melinda says they will follow Warren Buffett’s philosophy: “A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.“

I like that philosophy