Starbucks updates loyalty scheme and extends iPhone app – Marketing magazine
Former Lotus and Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie hiring for new start-up, Cocomo – Boston.com
RIM: Jefferies Says Moving Toward Licensing BB Software – Barrons.com
Michael Geist – Challenging Counterfeit Counterfeiting Data
Researchers Say Infographics Can Save Morons From Themselves. Really? | Co.Design
Communities Dominate Brands: Smartphone Form Book 2012 part 3 – For Nokia it is Elopwatch
British business hopes plunge | Irish Examiner – 74 per cent chance of recession according to Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets
Communities Dominate Brands: The Convergence of Megatrends? When All Roads Lead to ‘Mobile’
Darknet Rising: Private, Secure and Anonmyous Networks Emerging | The Penumbral Report
Asian Social Media Users Create, Western Users Consume [STUDY]
Some Venture Funds Hit ‘Pause’ on Big Deals – WSJ.com
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The 5 Things Yahoo’s New CEO Scott Thompson Should Do Right Away | Fast Company – probably easier to write the article than the job Thompson has inherited
Chinese Women’s Role in Household Consumption Increasing | The China Observer – still impressive high rate of savings
President Lee Myung-bak talked a lot about controlling high prices. – WSJ – growth and price inflation both considered issues
Getting to Know Chow Tai Fook – WSJ – world’s largest jewellery company
UK retailers face “carnage”: Warc.com – partly economics, partly industry structure due to etailing
Luxury automakers face off in China: Warc.com
Kodak Preparing for Chapter 11 Filing – Mike Spector and Dana Mattioli – AllThingsD – bullets for the IP wars between mobile device makers
Walmart Labs buys mobile agency Small Society — Tech News and Analysis – less interesting than the Kosmix purchase. Walmart bones up on wireless ninja skills
Samsung Chinese wafer fab gets OK
Korea’s Kakao Talk Passes 1 Billion Texts Per Day
$100 Million? Microsoft Has Even Bigger Plans – investment in marketing Windows Phone
Recipe search | guardian.co.uk – great use of the Guardian’s APIs
I, Cringely » Prediction 3: Intel buys Qualcomm – would this pass antitrust muster?
I, Cringely » Prediction #2: Amazon and Bezos supplant Apple and Jobs – a learning organisation like Sony back in the day
I, Cringely » Prediction #1: A new CEO for Apple – expects a Greek tragedy
BufferBloat: What’s Wrong with the Internet? – ACM Queue – why your broadband pipe isn’t what the adverts promised
App Downloads Soar – But Why is Germany Lagging? | Silicon Allee
The 16 Best Google Chrome Apps
Kimono designer dresses up iPad to breathe life into fading tradition | The Japan Times Online – kimono fabrics for iPad covers
Nobody Goes to Facebook Anymore. It’s Too Crowded. « Uncrunched – negative network effects
Yahoo names PayPal ex-president Scott Thompson as CEO | VentureBeat
New Microsoft patent: Walking directions that avoid crime-ridden neighborhoods – GeekWire
Nokia: Phone Charging Using Solar Power Comes With Many Challenges | PCWorld
China Telecom in milestone UK mobile deal – FT.com – (paywall)
Google Strikes A Blow For Android Consistency By Requiring Stock Theme | paidContent
Java Phones Make A Comeback In Late 2011, But Don’t Dump Android Just Yet | mocoNews
Spain rescinds private copy tax, adopts anti-piracy law – Telecompaper – targeting sites rather than end users
2012 search predictions: the experts’ view | Econsultancy
Will Google be forced to ban its own browser from its index? | guardian.co.uk – line blurring between paid and earned media
Ray Dalio’s Richest and Strangest Hedge Fund : The New Yorker