Category: luxury | 奢華 | 사치 | 贅沢
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Funds of funds + more news
Funds of Funds Funds of Funds May Actually Increase Risk, Study Finds – NYTimes.com – this feels counter-intuitive at first, until you realise that funds of funds are a synthetic financial instrument from the prospective of the end investor. Synthetic financial instruments led to problems like the 2008 financial crisis and the Savings and Loans…
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Pepsi cola + more news
Pepsi cola PepsiCo Gives Pepsi-Cola a Renewed Marketing Push – WSJ.com – You just can’t go dark on brands and expect them to hold their value (paywall). At a corporate level PepsiCo had tried to focus more on functional / healthy foods and so had under invested in Pepsi cola as a brand. Market share…
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Invisible birdcage + more news
Invisible birdcage China’s Internet: The Invisible Birdcage | Sinocism – interesting article on the business factors driving the Chinese internet. Linguistic and cultural difference has created a vibrant domestic internet scene. The invisible birdcage in question is the Chinese eco-system of sites and services that mean China’s netizens need not stray far. Inside the invisible…
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IBM fellows + more news
IBM fellows New IBM Fellows push computing frontiers – IBM fellows are the company’s most prolific innovators. This batch of IBM fellows is interesting because it is a good indication of technology areas which will be hot: question-and-answer systems, a holistic approach to hardware and software design (like Apple), mathematical modelling for environmental risk management,…
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Son of ACTA + more news
Son of ACTA US Proposals For Secret TPP ‘Son Of ACTA’ Treaty Leaked; Chock Full Of Awful Ideas | Techdirt – the draft proposals for son of ACTA look like an overreach: You have to remember this son of ACTA overreach is intentional. There will be lots in there that the Design The rise of…
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Nintendo + more news
Nintendo Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata Promotes Game Consoles Over Smartphones – NYTimes.com – The president of Nintendo told video game developers Wednesday that smartphones were driving a trend toward lower quality, and economically unsustainable, video games. – So much to unpack in this Nintendo speech. Mobile gaming is about more accessible gaming, filling in shorter slots…
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Ron Conway + more news
Ron Conway Ron Conway’s Confidential Investment “Megatrend” — “O2O Commerce” – for those of you who don’t know Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley angel investor who is hyper-connected and said to have the golden touch. Online to offline (O2O) commerce has been big in Asia where QRcodes provided the connective tissue between apps and…
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Cross border NFC services + more
DOCOMO and KT Agree to Launch Cross border NFC Services— To develop international services building on partnerships with key players — | Press Center | NTT DOCOMO Global – interesting move, I wonder if the big five wireless companies in Europe (Telefonica, Vodafone, France Telecom, Three, Deutsche Telekom) can do something similar in terms of…
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Instapaper + more news
Instapaper Instapaper Founder Marco Arment’s Journey From Bagel Jockey to Publishing Pioneer | Fast Company – I learned the value of giving people little delights [while working at the bagel shop]. Those small details and experiences are the reason why people like luxury cars. That uncertain reward is why people play the slots or Candy…