Category: china | 中國 | 중국 | 中華
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Connie Chan + more things
I love Connie Chan blog posts and presentations. In this talk she covers how Asian applications manage to squeeze so much more features into their apps than their western equivalent to provide a fuller eco-system of services that she terms super-apps. Connie Chan isn’t only smart, but manages to talk about Chinese eco-systems in a…
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WhatsApp Business & other news
WhatsApp Business Introducing the WhatsApp Business App | WhatsApp blog – a free-to-download Android app for small businesses. Our new app will make it easier for companies to connect with customers, and more convenient for our 1.3 billion users to chat with businesses that matter to them. Here’s how: Business Profiles: Help customers with useful information such…
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Financial services post-Brexit + more news
Interesting analysis on where the financial services industry is going to move their units post-Brexit to continue working in the EU. Post-Brexit London: 4 EU Cities Vying to Cash in on London’s Financial Services Exodus from Euromonitor International One of the key issues of concern for the financial services sector has been the lack progress…
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GoPro quits drones & other news
GoPro quits drone business GoPro quits the drone business – The Verge – because of the grip that DJI has on the drone market. GoPro had expanded into drones in the face of declining growth in the action camera market. You can start to see drone footage being cut into extreme sports videos providing a…
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Innovation stuckness + more 2018 trends
There are a number of people who have done great trends / predictions for 2018. I thought that I would focus on what I would like to see across three trends: innovation stuckness, lean web design, machine learning ethical considerations, buffer bloat and redefining what a technology start-up is. Smartphones are stuck in a period…
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Munich migration + other news
Munich Windows migration And we return to Munich migration back to Windows – it’s going to cost what now?! €100m! • The Register – interesting to see this war over Munich public sector computing still being fought in the background by Microsoft two decades later. I remember working at Edelman when its open source competitive…
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Marzipan & other news
Marzipan Daring Fireball: Marzipan – Gruber posits that Marzipan is a unified development environment that allows programmers to create apps optimised for iOS and macOS. Marzipan means that the only have to write the app only one time, rather than having to rewrite completely for each platform. It makes more sense than the original Guzman…
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China marketing agency landscape
China marketing agency changes Over the past two decades the China marketing agency landscape had got used to go-go growth, just by showing up. The Xi-era of China has seen the end of the go-go years in economic growth in China. This economic maturation was one of the factors picked up on Arun Sudhaman’s analysis…
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Facebook API + more news
Facebook Is Shutting Down Its API That Marketers Lean on for Research – Adweek – big for proprietary agency tools, social media tools and ad platforms that rely the Facebook API – it shows how vulnerable the ad tech sector is Spicing up Hong Kong’s Café scene | Marketing Interactive – great write-up of Café…