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...GoTo’s announcement follows lay-offs at other regional tech companies including Sea, owner of commerce site Shopee and JD.ID, the Indonesian arm of Chinese ecommerce group JD.com....
...It also owns online travel agency Tiket.com....
...While JD.com pleasantly surprised the market with its results, both Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding reported zero top line growth for the first time since their listings over a decade ago....
...First-quarter results from ecommerce group JD.com and travel booking platform Trip.com will paint a portrait of China’s consumption recovery....
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...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Wingefors made his first million pounds at the age of 23, after selling his second-hand comic and video game business for shares in the acquirer, Aim-listed Gameplay.com, though he lost it one year later...
...The funding round comes ahead of a planned public listing by GoTo next year....
...GoTo, the name of the merged Gojek and Tokopedia entity, and Grab are set to list by the end of the year....
...News of GoTo came hot on the heels of Singapore-based Grab’s record merger with a blank cheque company in April. GoTo will have its work cut out....
...Tuesday: European food delivery group Just Eat Takeaway.com reports earnings....
...Indonesia’s two biggest start-ups are merging to create ecommerce group GoTo, with a potential stock market value of $40bn....
...Get in touch with us anytime: Due.Diligence@ft.com. TCI thinks Canadian National veered off course with $34bn bid Chris Hohn isn’t afraid to say what’s on his mind....
...Intriguing move this week by China’s JD.com, one of Alibaba’s main rivals, which started paying some of its staff in digital renminbi....
...Zenith, zenith-watches.com and see Watches of Switzerland....
...Yoichi Goto’s first skiing trip to China was a pleasant surprise....
...Finally, I love all the speakeasy bars downtown: Bar Goto on Eldridge Street is a must....
...Zenith has an amazing heritage: every watch is made by hand in Switzerland, and adventurers such as the skydiver Felix Baumgartner wear them. £7,200; zenith-watches.com The one artist whose work I would...
...mamta.badkar@ft.com Twitter: @mamtabadkar...
...The first Japanese clients to appear in the Louis Vuitton archives are the politicians Goto Shojiro and Itagaki Taisuke....
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...And then add a prayer for the family of Kenji Goto — and countless others too. gillian.tett@ft.com Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...In 1998, he launched Goto.com, an online advertising business that soon changed its name to Overture Services and listed on the stock exchange before being snapped up by Yahoo in 2001 for $1.6bn....
...Robert-Jan Broer, an industry watcher who blogs about time pieces at Fratello Watches.com, defends the redesign, saying that it respects the spirit of the original....
...www.zenith-watches.com … Shamballa bracelets I am wearing black onyx, seed pearl and white gold beads, Tibetan style. I always wear a lot of bracelets....
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