How the U.S. Can Reinvent Manufacturing » Techonomy
Baidu Ramping up LBS Effort to Tap into O2O Heat | TechNode
Chrome Extension Protects Your Privacy on Facebook, Google
Facebook Tries to Monetize By Annoying; LinkedIn Adds to Value of its Site – Forbes
F.T.C. Staff Prepares Antitrust Case Against Google Over Search – NYTimes.com – interesting that it is being compared to the Microsoft case, which I don’t think is particularly pertinent
McDonald’s gets flak for removing menus from counters ‹ Japan Today – interesting change, presumably designed to rush customers into higher value meal buys
Nokia finishes offloading Vertu, rumors claim Vertu plans a matching switch to Android – Engadget
Investors like New York Times‘ ‘paywall’ progress — paidContent
Huawei, Chinese Telecom Company, Finds Warmer Welcome in Europe – NYTimes.com
Microsoft strategy analysis: Microsoft forced to be more like Apple
Contribution of open source to Europe’s economy: 450 billion per year | Joinup
Communications Data Bill: Their secrecy, your verdict – Simon Says…
A decade in PR – How agencies’ fee income has changed
Microsoft expands Motorola patent case to target Google Maps
Put This On • Seven Things Better Bought Used It’s sometimes… – interesting how much of this is down to changing economics and processes. Globalisation and progress aren’t always positive
Why the iPod Still Matters to Apple – interesting particular use cases (context rather than convergence) and as a gateway product
Yahoo’s Search Share Is Imploding – Business Insider – no real surprise here, apart from the fact there isn’t a realisation in the report that search is the glue in the Yahoo! network for the other properties effectively cross-selling users across properties…
APAC to become biggest ad market: News from Warc.com
Luxury CEOs get even more pessimistic | Material World
Household wealth to surge | Warc.com – doesn’t mean relief for the declining middle classes of western economies
Apple Hires Away Top Samsung CPU Designer to Build Custom Apple Chips
Facebook guidance on Promotions
Gambling | Facebook Help Center
Why Every Pitch is a Digital Pitch
Have we lost 41 percent of our musicians? Depends on how you (the RIAA) count | Ars Technica
Global PC Shipments Expected to Decline in 2012
The story of Ireland told to the world from Manchester – The Irish Times
NTT DOCOMO and MasterCard to offer NFC payments in 41 countries— MasterCard PayPass merchants to accept DOCOMO’s iD-brand mobile credit payments — | Press Center | NTT DOCOMO Global – interesting move by MasterCard
PG tips adds scratch card Facebook App – conversion rate is going to take a hit, going to a microsite
China says U.S. report on Huawei based on “untrue evidence” | VentureBeat
Sorry, Samsung, iPhone Is Not Your Mother’s Smartphone
Did Apple and Google really spend more on patents than R&D?Technovia