Chairing both Cheung Kong and Hutchison, he stays current with a roster of operations that extends from development to telecom, utilities, retail, online media and petrol.
The company raised undisclosed funding from telecom firm YTL, online sales site Lelong.my and an ex-Groupon COO, but this injection announced today will go towards expanding its regional footprint with another launch before the end of the year.
A spokesman for O2 said Apple stores were having "technical issues" connecting to the telecoms company's online systems.
It wants member countries to introduce laws compelling important firms in industries such as transport, telecoms, finance and online infrastructure to disclose details of any attack they suffer to a national authority, known as a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team).
The telecom giant directed its online security experts, including Chandra McMahon, Verizon's chief information security officer, to do their own investigation of the hack.
Other portfolio companies include hot cloud storage company Box, cloud telecom company Twilio, and online signature company DocuSign.
In early November, Obama announced that he strongly opposed efforts by telecoms companies to get online "fast lanes" for customers that pay more for internet.
* * * Late last year, I came across a Russian manual called Information-Psychological War Operations: A Short Encyclopedia and Reference Guide (The 2011 edition, credited to Veprintsev et al, and published in Moscow by Hotline-Telecom, can be purchased online at the sale price of 348 roubles).
But acquiring customers outside of telecoms, and bringing them online, can be a very costly process, Roumeliotis said.
Telecom services are suitable for online businesses and the biggest shipping fleet in the EU is supported by class infrastructure.
