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Nielsen
Why Google will crush Nielsen | guardian.co.uk – Nielsen is a global, independent measurement and data company for fast-moving consumer goods, consumer behavior, and media. The independence of Nielsen is something that Google can’t replicate. Nielsen covers 100 countries that have over 90 percent of the world’s GDP. Nielsen also covers about 80 percent of global advertising spend. Nielsen has grown into new markets through strategic acquisitions
Beauty
Cosmetics groups move deeper into China – FT.com
Business
Working with Chinese contractors | Guardian Professional – interesting balanced analysis of China in Africa. Classic construction industry mess-ups in terms of costing but no great conspiracy
Consumer behaviour
Islam could be dominant UK religion in 10 years – census analysis — RT News – indicator of massive demographic change
Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just using the word correctly. — Food for Thought — Medium
Baby Boomers: Every Silver Lining Has a Touch of Grey – CRM Magazine
Inside the Brain of a Boomer: How Cash-Rich Demo Sees Ads | News – Advertising Age
Tranisitioning into Retirement: The MetLife Study of Baby Boomers at 65 – (PDF)
The Sandwich Generation | Pew Social & Demographic Trends
MediaPost Publications Marketing To Baby Boomer And Senior Customers – Part I 01/07/2013
Reports and Insights | Introducing Boomers: Marketing’s Most Valuable Generation | Nielsen
Culture
A Beginner’s Guide to Tom Moulton, inventor of the remix and the 12″ single – FACT Magazine – A Tom Moulton mix appearing on a disco 12″ credits was generally a sign of quality
Design
5 tips for building apps for Baby Boomers – iMediaConnection.com – not sure about the responsive web design comment. I think that this is more like avoid bad web design
Economics
The biggest mistake 60-year-old men make about the economy – history doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes
Asia-Pacific may soon have more outstanding corporate debt than the US, the euro zone and the UK combined – Quartz – I would imagine that the majority of it is Chinese corporates, in particular conglomerates like LeEco and real estate developers
Obama Talks About How To Build A Rising, Thriving Middle Class – Transcript
Exclusive: EU threatens trade duties against China’s Huawei, ZTE | Reuters
Challenging domination of oil’s powerful few – FT.com – post LIBOR scandal investigation. Market dynamics around Brent crude could be similarly exploited (paywall)
A new forecast points to a plunge in oil and gasoline prices
Finance
Argentina mulls opening its banks to money launderers – Quartz
HSBC Signals 14,000 Jobs Cuts in $3 Billion Savings Plan – Bloomberg – “You’re getting cost cuts as a means of sustaining performance and that’s not a great sign,” said Simon Maughan, an analyst at Olivetree Securities Ltd. in London. “What HSBC is showing you is that there is very little growth in the banking industry for years to come.”
FMCG
Here’s why McDonald’s needs to slim down its menu
How to
Statistical Formulas For Programmers
13 Ways Brands Can Boost Their Facebook Edgerank Status
Ideas
Open 24: Politics of Things: What Art & Design do in Democracy | SKOR
Innovation
Exxon Takes Algae Fuel Back to the Drawing Board | MIT Technology Review
Amazon buys Samsung display subsidiary Liquavista
A Benz With a Virtual Chauffeur – NYTimes.com – interesting that Daimler-Benz engineers are skeptical of 100% driverless cars in next five years
Dirty medicine – Fortune Features – if I was a major pharmaceutical company I would be financing a Hollywood film and a book about Ranbaxy to put the generic competition back in the stone age
Japan: Where medical miracles are waiting to get out of the lab – Fortune Tech
‘Liberator’: Proof that you CAN’T make a working gun in a 3D printer • The Register
Luxury
The UK’s fastest growing tourist group endures the slowest visa process – Quartz
Media
NYRB 50 Years International Reportage reviewed Gabriel Debenedetti | New Republic – what hard news misses
Tech City News announces ‘transatlantic tech news alliance’| Journalism.co.uk
Senior Execs Not Convinced About Social’s Worth – expect to see similar headlines around big data in a few years when the cost | benefit analysis is done
Why E-Mail Newsletters Won’t Die | Wired.com
Online
But Wait. Didn’t Yahoo Try a Deal Like This Before? – NYTimes.com
Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem – AllThingsD
A better, brighter Flickr « Flickr Blog
Social Media Pose Riddle for CIA – WSJ.com
Top 20 sites in Russia by visitors and time spent – Digital Intelligence – VKontakte still huge
SK to revamp Cyworld – but is it too late as Koreans have moved on to the likes of KakaoTalk, Twitter and Facebook?
Security
Software
Silicon Valley’s assault on Mobile’s Gated Kingdom • The Register – interesting primer on OTT services, which is like web 2.0 for telecoms
BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer | The Verge – too late? Andrew Orlowski doesn’t think so: BlackBerry Messenger unleashed: Look out Twitter and Facebook • The Register
iTunes users spending at the rate of $40/yr. | asymco
DRM in HTML5 is a victory for the open Web, not a defeat | Ars Technica
Facebook’s iPhone Culture Builds An Overzealous Home On Android | TechCrunch – it is interesting that Facebook employees choose iPhone though. Says a lot about the appeal of the platform to tech early adopters
Web of no web
How two Valve engineers walked away with the company’s augmented reality glasses | The Verge
Wireless
Communities Dominate Brands: Q1 Numbers in Bloodbath Year Four: Smartphones Galore
Five Google I/O Announcements That Matter Outside Silicon Valley – Bloomberg
Report: Smartphone sales up 61% in Southeast Asia, Android dominates with 70% share – The Next Web