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Reading Time: 1 minute Can Chinese internet pioneer Sohu finally pull off a comeback after missing the mobile era? | SCMP.com – interesting parallels with Yahoo! in the west, but without the incompetent board and Carl Icahn Anti-China Bonds Between Hong Kong and Taiwan Are Growing – The Atlantic – The year was 1984: China was in the early … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서
Reading Time: 2 minutes Disney posted this beautiful trailer of the Mulan-live action adaption this weekend. I presume it was to try and take the sting out of a black mermaid earlier this week on Chinese social media. Kudos to my former work neighbours at Leo Burnett London for this lovely bit of craft in a McDonald’s UK ad … Read moreThings that made my day this week
Reading Time: 3 minutes Looking back on the career of Jony Ive, its hard to believe where the company came from. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple he picked through much of Apple and didn’t like what he saw. He did see something in Jonathan Ive and the small cadre of product designers left at Apple. Ive’s moving on … Read moreThe Jony Ive post
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inside China’s booming streetwear scene – Inkstone – great video on China’s booming streetwear scene that’s morphing into someithing very different Tesco Is Said to Work With Israel’s Trigo on Cashierless Stores – Bloomberg – if Chinese cashier less stores experience is anything to go by, this might not be a good idea ‘Adapt or … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서
Reading Time: 3 minutes BMW NEXTGen event included a concept car the BMW Vision M Next. What I found most interesting about this is how BMW whilst looking forward with the i8 and the M Next; is still stuck with designs resembling the Giorgetto Giugiaro designed M1(E26) of the late 1970s. Don’t get me wrong, when I was a … Read moreFive for Friday | 五日（星期五) | 금요일에 다섯 가지