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PLDT, Rocket Internet create m-payments JV
2015-01-06 13:20:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) and Rocket Internet have signed a definitive agreement to establish a global joint venture for payment services with a focus on emerging markets. Each of the two partners will hold a 50 percent stake in the joint venture. This project was envisaged as a global partnership that was initiated by the pre-IPO investment of PLDT in Rocket in 2014.
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New mobile payment contender looms as Rocket and PLDT team up
2015-01-06 12:41:04| IT Services - Topix.net
A few months before its lukewarm IPO late last year, Germany's Rocket Internet took a $446 million investment from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company , the largest telecoms operator in the Philippines. At the time, Rocket and PLDT said they were going to work together on mobile and online payment technologies - and now we know more about that arrangement.
SpaceX Seeks to Defy Odds With Ocean-Platform Rocket Landing
2015-01-02 15:00:00| TechNewsWorld
SpaceX next week will try for the first time to land the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket on a custom-built ocean platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The experiment originally was scheduled to take place in mid-December but was postponed to Jan. 6.The Falcon 9 first stage is some 14 stories tall and will be traveling at a speed of nearly a mile per second.
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The past, present, and future potential of NASAs nuclear space rocket program
2014-12-24 17:30:12| Extremetech
Shortly after Apollo 11, Wernher von Braun, one of the fathers of rocket science, proposed that we develop a reusable Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) rocket to colonize the Moon. Today, NASA engineers are still struggling to pick up where he left off. An interesting technical report that NASA prepared for the Space 2013 Conference and Exposition has recently been released. In it, we can find some of the latest, and oldest, ideas for a NASA-made nuclear thermal rocket that would take us back to the Moon.
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Lockheed's third MUOS satellite encapsulated in ULA's Atlas V rocket
2014-12-23 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Lockheed Martin's third mobile-user objective system (MUOS) spacecraft has been successfully encapsulated into its payload fairing, making it ready for its scheduled launch on the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket on 20 January 2015.
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