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BUSINESS (ii) 1-800 BizFone service where we do not charge callers who dial in but for which we charge the parties who engage us to provide such a service. BizFone is an automatic and interactive voice response service especially customized to meet unique requirements of our business partners. Through a programmed 24-hour call handling mechanism, callers can dial a designated hotline, respond to a menu of options via the key pads of the phone and participate in contest promotions, tele-ordering, recruitment, consumer poll, survey etc. Services like transcription of calls, collation of information can also be provided at minimal cost, to add value to the advertising campaigns of our corporate partners. JOINT VENTURES, STRATEGIC ALLIANCES AND INVESTMENTS In the bid to build comprehensive websites which offer a myriad of portal services to our users, as well as to build our market presence, we have and will continue to pursue strategic relationships with prominent, internationally renowned, and well established businesses which offer content, technology, distribution capabilities as well as marketing, e-commerce, and cross-promotional opportunities. We capitalise on such strategic relationships to expand our presence geographically throughout Asia and to build our brand names internationally. Joint Venture – AsiaOne Reckon We entered into a 50-50 joint venture with Reckon Online Holdings Pty Ltd (“Reckon”) on 29 February 2000. The joint venture is conditional upon Reckon assigning its rights to the “Quicken” name, logo, marks, products and services (“Quicken Rights”) to the joint venture company, subject to the consent of Intuit Inc., the owner of the Quicken Rights. As at the date of this Prospectus, the negotiations with Intuit, Inc. are still in progress. Reckon, the licensee of the Quicken name, logo, marks, products and services in Asia-Pacific, is a leading e-finance services provider for personal and small-to-medium business users. The joint venture company plans to develop and set up an online financial portal business in Singapore. Joint Venture – FantasticOne We hold a 40% stake in a joint venture company, FantasticOne, pursuant to a joint venture agreement we entered into with The Fantastic Corporation (“Fantastic”) on 22 March 2000. Publicly listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Fantastic is a global provider of end-to-end broadband multimedia solutions. Its headquarters is based in Zug, Switzerland, and it also has regional headquarters in New York and Singapore and offices in nine other key markets. Fantastic’s solutions enhance the sensory experience by merging the quality, emotion and reach of television with the interactivity of the Internet. Fantastic’s global partners include Lucent, NTT Communicationware Corporation, Inktomi, Deutsche Telekom, Loral Space and Communications, British Telecom, Reuters, MTV Europe, and Telecom Italia. FantasticOne has an issued share capital of $9 million as at the date of this Prospectus. We will use our experience in media gathering, distribution and marketing, development of Internet and regional content, to establish the profile of FantasticOne regionally. Fantastic will support the joint venture with its broadband multimedia software technology and solutions, branded channels and operational broadband services. FantasticOne will focus on mass market content and offer one-stop solutions to media producers of branded broadband content and to media distributors operating data broadcast networks enabled by Fantastic. FantasticOne will bring broadband solutions and services closer to the Asia-Pacific markets, allowing the creation of local content that caters to the markets’ uniqueness, cultures, tastes and languages for mass consumption. 71
BUSINESS While the Internet has stimulated the development of digital content and a coherent set of open standards for the creation of multimedia, data broadcasting further allows broadcasting and the Internet to converge into a single seamless digital medium. Compelling content and applications including text, pictures, graphics, audio and video can therefore be broadcast at very high speeds to Internet Protocol devices such as personal computers, television sets and mobile devices. FantasticOne aims to capitalise on the opportunities generated by this transition. Strategic Investment – Asianbourses.com On 2 March 2000, we invested $6.38 million in Asianbourses.com, representing a 20% stake. Asianbourses.com, incorporated in Singapore on 25 January 1995, is a financial information infrastructure company. Asianbourses.com intends to undertake the following:- (i) develop high granularity databases on financial markets; (ii) develop data-warehousing and data-mining tools using supercomputers to produce advanced, high intensity real-time and comprehensive investment analysis content; (iii) create original analytical investment content; (iv) deploy content over a Unified Messaging System; (v) distribute products and content for financial institutions using information dissemination technology; and (vi) operate a virtual funds “exchange” subject to regulatory approval. Asianbourses.com’s business complements our core business and fits into our vertical integration strategy. Asianbourses.com is currently working with The Business Times and AsiaOne to develop a new website to be called AsiaOne Markets. AsiaOne Markets will have stock information on key Asian exchanges, as well as historical data and tools for technical analysis and other relevant facts and figures. AsiaOne Markets will replace BT Stocks when launched. Asianbourses.com is also working with Zaobao.com to provide stock analyses and financial news for investors on stocks listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Strategic Alliance – Healthanswers.com.sg On 12 April 2000, we entered into an agreement with HealthAnswers (Singapore) Pte Ltd (“HAS”) to jointly create a co-branded health and medical website (the “Co-branded website”). Under this agreement, which is for a period of five years, we shall provide a gateway on AsiaOne.com to the Co-branded website. The Co-branded website will provide answers to the health concerns of our users. It will also provide content relating to health issues including but not limited to diseases and conditions, healthy body, healthy lifestyle, news, resources, and questions and answers. Contents on the Co-branded website will be updated regularly. We have agreed with HAS to share the advertising revenue generated from the Co-branded website based on a sharing formula. 72
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PROSPECTUS DATED 23 MAY 2000 SPH AS
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CORPORATE INFORMATION Board of Dire
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