Month: January 2014
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Ford Trend Report + more news
Ford trend report 2014 Ford Trend Report – The Ford Motor Company’s inhouse futurist pulled the Ford Trend Report together. At my most cynical I could see it as a cost effective PR stunt. The Ford Trend Report could also be used mostly about consumer attitudes and behaviours Economics Davos wrap: beware the EM middle…
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ChinaLeaks + more news
ChinaLeaks ChinaLeaks: Exposé on Chinese elite’s offshore accounts comes at sensitive time | South China Morning Post – ChinaLeaks is a data set of some 22,000 documents received by the ICIJ that relate to members of China‘s political elites including relatives of Xi Jingping. The documents show how professional service firms helped them hide assets…
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Observations from Shenzhen, China
I spent some time in Shenzhen recently and here is some of the things that I found during my stay. The pace of development is slower than it was before, the number of cranes I saw and ready-mix concrete wagons on the road was less than before. There is still a lot of building work…
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Tangerine ten questions
If you don’t follow Tangerine NY’s blog, I would recommend that you do for the curated mix of zeitgeist and Tangerine ten questions interviews. The Tangerine ten questions: Where are you right now?What did you want to be when you were a child?How do you think we can keep talent motivated?What are you reading now?What…
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Galaxy Gear + more news
Galaxy Gear No shanzhai Galaxy Gear smartwatches – Shanzhai is the innovation / counterfeit ecosystem in Chinese manufacturing. They make fake iPhones and feature phones with a built in razor, or modelled after a Coke can. So why should Samsung be worried about a lack of Galaxy Gear clones? Shanzhai manufacturers have many faults, but…
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Mobile laboratory: Hong Kong
According to a commentator in the Hong Kong Economic Times: Hong Kong consumers spend 129 minutes a day on their mobile devices, 90 per cent of that time is using applications and mobile internet-enabled services. According to Hong Kong government statistics mobile penetration is 223% compared to 128% across the EU, though many of these…
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Bakrie Group + more news
Bakrie Group and Path Indonesia’s Bakrie Group leads Path’s $25 million Series C round – Indonesia is the world’s largest muslim country. It is also the country where BlackBerry was popular. If you’re not Indonesian, the Bakrie Group won’t sound that familiar. The Bakrie Group is a conglomerate, it has interests across various industries including…
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Cathay Pacific vs. British Airways
I flew to Hong Kong with Cathay Pacific and had a stopover in Europe and it reminded me why I love to travel with them. My flight from the UK was with British Airways, who used a long haul plane on a short haul route meaning that some people got a flat bed to have…
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Shadow banking + more news
Shadow banking Expect wild 2014 with China crackdown on shadow banking – I am not so convinced given the vested interests in shadow banking. Shadow banking ‘wealth management products’ are sold by state banks like ICBC. Local government is funded by land sales to real estate developers, who are funded by shadow banking. The article…