55% of mobile search conversions happen within an hour | Econsultancy
Why Tech Companies May Really Want All Those Extra Visas | MIT Technology Review
German Techno DJ Westbam: New Album Features Pop Collaborations – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Are Yuppies Ruining London? | VICE United Kingdom – the price of the average home has increased by 94 percent, while wages have risen by just 29 percent. And rent is set to increase twice as fast as house prices in 2013, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
CISPA’s Immunity Provision Would Allow Corporate Hacking | Motherboard
Commodity prices | The Economist
The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Rolling Stone
Newspapers’ alternative regulation plans: the key differences | Media | The Guardian – most of this makes sense, except for the omission of a hotline; presumably so that when it is bargained back in the newspapers can get movement on something they are more concerned about
SpinMedia Buys Vibe Magazine, Cuts Print Edition, Staff – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD
Fast Company puts twist on advertiser’s content | Crain’s New York Business
Nokia Lumia executive Steven Overman resigns | BGR
Apple R&D Spending, 2013: Apple Ups Research & Development Spending | BGR
Galaxy S4 Not the Game-Changer We Expected | SiliconANGLE – more of a meta-review
Mountain Dew to Introduce a Sponsored Web Site – NYTimes.com – smart move by Mountain Dew
So just how easy is it to build a brand using social media? | Excapite – search still matters
The New York Times paywall has hit a growth wall – Quartz
UPS: Asia still looks shaky – Quartz
Huntsworth sells £36.5m stake to Asia PR group BlueFocus | PRWeek – this is an interesting move
Bogus gov online test tells people on dole they’re just SO employable • The Register
UK way behind Germany and Italy in robotics – not terribly surprising that continued underinvestment dogs UK businesses same as it has done for the past 50 years
Goldman Sachs’ boss Lloyd Blankfein says we must stick with austerity
Why can’t private banks break China? – making the same mistakes as other companies have when entering China
What kind of woman is willing to share her husband? – changing social norms in UK muslim communities
Krugman’s uncanny accuracy shows why more eyes should be on Japan
Zynga Hemorrhaging Users Like a Shotgun Wound – not surprised, gaming is like the film business