Facebook’s Global Plan: Find The Next Billion Users
September 27th, 2012
Courtesy of Quartz, an article on Facebook’s global strategies: Facebook’s 242 million users in Asia represent just 6% of the continent’s population. Can you say growth opportunity? This is the story of Facebook’s rapidly unfolding plan to take over the world, or at least the world wide web. It’s a tale that’s been hiding in […]
Read more »A BRIC Wall?
September 27th, 2012
Via Mark Mobius’ blog, an interesting commentary on the BRIC’s economic growth and continued prospects: A global pattern of easing economic growth in the first half of 2012 has impacted the “BRIC” nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China. However, I don’t think the BRIC economies have hit a brick wall. While some market participants […]
Read more »India: Venezuela’s New Petro-Amigo
September 27th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, an interesting look at the blossoming relationship between India and Venezuela: Venezuela’s gigantic oil reserves are coveted the world over – especially the Orinoco extra-heavy crude belt, which is one of the planet’s few remaining largely untapped reserves of hydrocarbons. Investment conditions in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela may not be ideal, but […]
Read more »A Somali Spring?
September 27th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a report on Somalia: After the twin suicide attacks that killed 14 people in Mogadishu last week and an assassination attempt on the president a little more than a week before that, predictions of a Somali Spring would seem to be, at the very least, premature. But buried beneath the grisly headlines […]
Read more »What Can Myanmar Sell?
September 27th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at what Myanmar may export to help drive its economy: Myanmar used to be a major exporter of many products – from rice to clothing to its world-famous red rubies. But crippling sanctions left the country with few willing buyers aside from China and India who just wanted […]
Read more »Laos: Country Snapshot
September 21st, 2012
Via Emerging Frontiers blog, a detailed look at Laos: Overview Laos has 6,586,266 people dispersed unevenly across a country that covers 236,800 sq km. The country borders Myanmar and China in the north, Vietnam to the west, Thailand on its eastern border, and Cambodia in the south. Following a period of conflict and civil war, […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.