Chinese consumer
Catering to the self-expressive Chinese consumer – less focus on the corporate brand, more on the product level brand for the self-expressive Chinese consumer. More related content on consumer behaviour
Beauty
Beiersdorf Could Complement P&G – Euromonitor International – if it did happen let’s hope it would be better than what has happened to Braun
Consumer behaviour
Global Social Unrest – Euromonitor International – youth unemployment, perceived income inequality and feelings of being outside society. Rather sounds like the Scarman Report from the early 1980s after the Brixton Riots
China Fuels Solitary Cigarettes Growth Region’ – Analyst Insight from Euromonitor International
Innovation
3D-Printed Batteries Could Be the Solution to Our Lithium Woes | Motherboard
How to Squeeze 1,000 Terabytes of Data onto a Single DVD | SiliconANGLE
Luxury
The Evolving Luxury Landscape in Asia – Euromonitor International
Media
Measuring the iTunes video store | asymco
Reuters Institute survey reveals growing global popularity of live blogs | PressGazette
For HBO and Apple, a long process to partner on TV | The Verge
Online
Social media analytics in action | guardian.co.uk
Marissa Mayer Has Quietly Cut 1,000 Jobs At Yahoo – Business Insider – quarterly appraisals. I hope that the planning cycle has moved beyond the 6 weeks of planning and run hell for leather to execute that used to happen each quarter
Security
Schneier on Security: US Offensive Cyberwar Policy – interesting comparison with the cold war nuclear stand-off
The creepier web tracking technology that will replace cookies – The Globe and Mail – profiling systems
Deep Packet Inspection: Market Analysis & Forecasts | ARCchart
Software
WeChat Gets In-App Purchases; Pics Slick But Will Users Like It?
WhatsApp Surpasses 250 Million Active Users – Digits – WSJ
Line Opens Sponsored Channels for Third-Party Apps – consumers rewarded for interacting with brand content in LINE
I, Cringely IBM to customers: Your hand is staining my window – this all feels likes the early 1990s again when IBM changed its business model around mainframes to book more profit in the short term and were caught by the short and curlies and ended the career of John Akers
Web of no web
TelecomTV | DT launches its M2M development kit/community/platform
Wireless
Wi-Fi Alliance kicks off 11ac certification – Rethink Wireless – interesting given that there are already 802.11ac products on sale
Microsoft Explored Deal for Nokia – WSJ.com – it wouldn’t make sense on balance. Microsoft has what it needs from Nokia already, though Naviteq maybe an interesting buy. More content on Naviteq