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Mercedes Benz G63 AMG

Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 « Gear Patrol – I can’t work out if the Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 is amazing or stupid. It is based on the G Wagen which is a proper off-road vehicle. The 6×6 platform used was developed for the military like Germany’s KSK special forces unit. The Mercedes Benz G63 AMG adds a ridiculously overturned engine. AMG then has to go over every inch of the Mercedes Benz G63 and change chassis and components to adequately handle the power.

Business

16th annual CEO survey – pwc – (PDF)

Consumer behaviour

Chinese women aspire to be housewives | Market-interactive.com

Study: Twitter debates don’t represent opinions of general public (Wired UK)

Share Everything: Why the Way We Consume Has Changed Forever – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities

Design

BMW announced it’s i3 Coupe concept this week. It was buzzword compliant with plug-in technology; but the most interesting thing for me about it was the way in which the car shows the current range that could be travelled as part of its in-car instrumentation.

range

It was a duh moment of genius simplicity in terms of user experience design for vehicles.

Economics

China: Beyond The Miracle | Zero Hedge – interesting piece of analysis

Q&A with Jim ‘BRIC’ O’Neill: Grillo’s good, China’s fine, Europe’s fading – Quartz

The fourth euro crisis cycle of panic has officially begun – Quartz

Euro zone unemployment hits a record high of 11.9% – Quartz

Finance

Why delinquent student loans are the fuse on America’s next debt bomb – Quartz

Rigging the I.P.O. Game – NYTimes.com – this reminds me of the first day ‘pop’ that my former client VA Lnux had when they IPO’d

UK and US toe the edge of a “regulatory trade war” over banking – Quartz

Hong Kong

Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Breaks Down His Kung Fu Samples by Film and Song

How to

How to RSVP in an Entrepreneurial Way | AlwaysOn

Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet TAGS v3 Jisc CETIS MASHe

Nintendo games on a Mac – Matt Gemmell

Creation Pinpoint™ | Dashboard for Understanding What Doctors Talk About Online. – New SM listening/monitoring tool for pharma – allows you to monitor only what HCPs are saying

Korea

Microsoft Seeks Software License from South Korea Military – Korea Real Time – WSJ

London

Evening Standard – FIFTY BEST: Independent coffee shops – as a Foursquare list

Catching Up with the City Boy Who Spilled the City’s Secrets | VICE United Kingdom – interview with Geraint Anderson formerly a columnist in thelondonpaper

Luxury

Collectables – British Airways Business Life. – modern items that are collectable

Marketing

The Agenda for the Global Marketer – ad people worldwide – interesting white paper (PDF)

Outside looking in – EIU – challenges CMO faces in dealing with the board

Media

Tumblr to Introduce Mobile Advertising to Help Achieve Profit – Bloomberg

#LFW: The ELLE UK Twitter report | ELLE UK – since when was fashion a democracy? Elle uses Twitter as an arbiter of taste. More related luxury content here.

Digital Media in China – Digital Media Asia

Social media policy | immediate future. – library of social media policies

Pottermore Reaches Out To Harry Potter Fan Sites – affiliate marketing doesn’t pay that well

Online

TelecomTV | Reality bites: Fed-up with Facebook, the kids are are going somewhere “cooler”. – can’t say that I am surprised beyond the fact that network effects had been such a break on the retreat

5 things that may change on your Facebook timeline – CTV

Facebook algorithm stopping you see the content you subscribe to, unless brands pay | The Wall Blog

The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens | The Verge

The Decline and Fall of Social Networks

Andrew Mason on being fired by the Groupon board

Security

Penn Schoen Berland – Execs say cyber-attacks a top priority – PSB is a sister agency

Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf | Reuters

First SOPA, Now Your Privacy: Facebook, Google Flex Lobbying Muscle in Europe | Mother Jones

Software

Google controls too much of China’s smartphone sector: ministry | Reuters – 90 per cent market share

How Are You Feeling Today? A New Mood-Measuring App Can Tell You | Co.Create: Creativity Culture Commerce

Jolla Wants To Build A Foursquare Phone, A Facebook Phone | TechCrunch

Microsoft Might Owe Denmark More Than $1 Billion in Unpaid Tax

Keeping the Wolfram from the Data

Fontastic – A Processing library to create font files

Who’ll win the consumer video codec battles?

Resurgence in Neural Networks – tjake.blog

Journo & Literate CoffeeScript

Learning How to Code Is A Waste of Time – Forbes

Technology

PC market to decline for a second consecutive year in 2013, says IDC

Library Camp London – Audio Recordings & Writeup | Terence Eden has a Blog

Intel will make 14nm FPGAs for Altera

Logitech reorganises to focus on mobile products

Why Nobody Can Copy Apple | cek.log

Telecoms

Exclusive-Skype’s Jonathan Rosenberg, Father of SIP, Bolts Back To Cisco – VoIP Watch

Wireless

Why the Galaxy S4 won’t be shedding its plastic roots | CNET News