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SHANGHAI, Oct. 29 – Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways and Air China have agreed to partner to form the country’s biggest cargo joint venture in Shanghai in anticipation of rising demand.“The venture is expected to be launched ahead of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo but still requires regulatory approval,” Kong Dong, chairman of Beijing-based Air China, told Shanghai Daily yesterday. “We are confident that the JV will benefit from Shanghai’s growing cargo demand. The city handled 3 million tons of

Joint Ventures are a amazing tool for leverage which I perceive as “the ability to do more with less”. A JV partnership is when you partner with individuals in a way that benefits both parties requiring very little time and money. Example: I want to boost my massage practice and my friend Kim wants to build her hair-dressing business. We both know that a large percentage of our new sales end up being repeat customers. So I go to her and say “hey Kim, let’s do a joint venture. I’ll give you some

MySpace’s acquisition of leading Facebook music application iLike earlier this year gave it a strong foothold for distributing MySpace content inside Facebook. But now, the two companies are officially talking about how they might further share data. That’s according to The Telegraph . “Hypothetically speaking, as nothing has been formally arranged yet, MySpace could become a Facebook Connect partner – which would allow people to share content they liked from MySpace with their Faceboo

The Hong Kong airport authority is keen to buy a stake in its Shanghai counterpart but the two sides haven’t held talks about the issue, said a senior official of the Shanghai Airport Authority yesterday. “The two sides may look at a stake tie-up to enhance their cooperation, but it depends on the process of the Shanghai Airport’s full listing of the group,” said Li Derun, executive vice president of Shanghai Airport. The operator of Shanghai’s two airports has been considering injecting i