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Documerica
The U.S. National Archives collection of Documerica photos that were originally taken on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1971 – 1977. There is such a great selection of images in Documerica released under a creative commons license and I love using them in slideware. Documerica featured the work of between 70 and 120 photographers
Business
Chinese Way of Doing Business – In Cash We Trust – NYTimes.com
MasterCard usage is growing five times faster in emerging markets than in the US – Quartz
BP to use Angolan gas to fuel European homes – Telegraph – to plug the gap that mature UK fields aren’t filling and provide alternative supply to Russia
Consumer behaviour
Hotel Guests Turn Away From TV and Toward Streaming Media
Is Dunbar’s Number Up? – University of Toronto
Economics
China Magazine Floats Idea of Selling Parts of Currency Reserves – Bloomberg
George Osborne faces £24bn dilemma on UK bank stakes – FT.com
Chart of the Day: European Unemployment Hits New Record – which will take longer to turn around than the economic numbers
Chinese manufacturers are beset by a global slowdown and rising wages – gradual change in the structure of the Chinese economy
Career mistresses, and the truth about women holding up half the sky in China – Campaign Asia – great article about consumer attitudes of Chinese women. Family cramps aspirations, financial gain is a key driver
London property being snapped up as quickly as before 2007 crisis – Reuters
BBC News – MPs question government’s infrastructure spending plans
A rate cut won’t help Europe because investors still lack confidence in European banks
The danger is that UK companies will spend their cash abroad – Telegraph – because it makes more sense than the economic uncertainty in the UK
Finance
Rethink listing rules after ENRC: top investor – Telegraph
Bank lending to bounce back as bad debts fall – The Independent
FMCG
Junk foods avoid ad ban by targeting children online | The Guardian – not terribly surprising
Innovation
Oslo Copes With Shortage of Garbage It Turns Into Energy – NYTimes.com
How Skynet Might Emerge From Simple Physics
Luxury
China calls time on expensive watches in face of crackdown – FT.com
Media
Clarification to Guardian’s Wrong Article, Again… | Socialbakers
Facebook’s Declining User Growth Rate – AllThingsD – law of big numbers
Five reasons why this is the worst earnings report Facebook has ever issued – Quartz
‘Facebook is dead’ among young people | PRWeek – it will be interesting to see if they can turn this around. Especially interesting that this is the message coming from BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat and 1Xtra news editor Rod McKenzie
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Predicts the Future of Streaming Video – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD
Deloitte’s UK Media Consumer survey ’13
Digital Marketers Say It’s Becoming More Important to Rank in Global Search Engines
Auction System Helps Place Digital Outdoor Ads – WSJ.com
Meme
Twitter Users Mark ‘Ed Balls Day’ Anniversary | Orange UK
Online
Yahoo acquires 4 million user to-do app Astrid, service to continue as is for 90 days – The Next Web
Free Speech on the Internet: Silicon Valley is Making the Rules | New Republic
Security
Proposal seeks to fine tech companies for noncompliance with wiretap orders – The Washington Post
Why your personality will be scored in the next 5 years | VentureBeat
Software
Surface Tension: The effect of Surface on Windows revenues | asymco
Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, more from iOS later this year | 9to5Mac
Jony Ive paints a fresh, yet familiar, look for iOS 7 | 9to5Mac – a move away from web 2.0 reflection metaphors. More here The Flattening of Design – NYTimes.com
Technology
I, Cringely The Decline & Fall of IBM – I, Cringely
Web of no web
Here’s the Real Reason Why Virtual Reality Doesn’t Work Yet
Google gets people ready for Glass with new how-to video
SoLoMo: Kotak Bank Celebrates Foursquare Day in 200 Banking Branches | VisibleBanking.com
Microsoft IllumiRoom is a coffee table projector designed for the next-generation Xbox | The Verge
Wireless
Samsung Marketing Advertising Budget Casts Dark Shadow Over Android | BGR – 9.2 billion dollars marketing spend, that’s one hell of a competitive advantage
Apple’s Share of Worldwide Tablet Shipments Falls Below 40% in 1Q 2013 – Mac Rumors
Active antennas invade next-gen smartphones
Softbank posts 50% operating profit margins in its mobile business
BlackBerry’s CEO is correct: There’s no future in tablets – I think that this is a cross form factor phenomena of commidisation driven by the Android operating system