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Jego
China Mobile Launches Jego Mobile App to Grow International Business – China Real Time Report – WSJ – Jego is like Skype Out. You get a certain amount of call minutes each month and a Hong Kong number. The Jego software feels clunky, and it is limited in terms of western payment platforms that it uses. The big issue with Jego is that the call quality is bad. I am not too sure why that is the case. On a 3G network with good reception and where Skype works perfectly, Jego calls are like an FM radio tuned between stations.
Consumer behaviour
Teens, Social Media, and Privacy | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
Don’t hate Mondays—they’re the best day to apply for a job – Quartz – I am sure that this is spurious data but nonetheless
FMCG
Case study: Fyffes turns bananas into comic strips – Digital Intelligence
How to
Matt Cutts Answers If Every Page Needs To Have A Unique Meta Description – avoid duplicates is the main takeaway
Marketing
British Airways: Plane Detecting Billboards | Digital Buzz Blog
BehaviorMatrix℠ – Applied Behavioral Analytics – Don’t just listen. Understand.
I Believe in Advertising | Absolut Vodka: Absolut Unique Access – interesting WhatsApp campaign
Media
Time shifting viewing ‘becoming the norm’ – Digital Intelligence
YouTube’s Mobile Apps Get Their First, ‘Native’ Takeover Ad | Digital – Advertising Age
The shifting pay TV industry in two charts — Tech News and Analysis
Millennials’ Most Frequently Consumed Video Content? Still TV Shows
Finnish Internet Users are Most Avid Consumers of Online News
Online
Responsive design vs. adaptive delivery: Which one’s right for you? | VentureBeat
Google’s Broken Promises & Who’s Running The Search Engine? – incisive and interesting analysis by Danny Sullivan of Google. On a related tip: Erik McClure: Google’s Decline Really Bugs Me
Retailing
Most ‘Great Singapore Sale’ print ads failed to draw consumers: Ipsos – Campaign Asia – (paywall)
Walmart Employee Food Drive – Business Insider
Software
Ballmer reflects on time with Microsoft: ‘I’m big, I’m bald and I’m loud’ | BGR – an eye on the future in this interview, smarter than his peers at Microsoft
Why Do Companies Still Use Microsoft Windows For Displays? ← Terence Eden’s Blog
Microsoft’s dystopian pitch for remote work by David of 37signals – but an honest reflection of the way technologies like Blackberry have been used
A VC: Android and iOS Demographics In The US
Marketing to the Multi-Platform Majority – comScore, Inc – reg wall
Technology
Forrester’s Asia Pacific Predictions for 2014 | Forrester Webinar – Business controlled IT budget growth will accelerate in APAC come 2014
iPad Sales Q1 2014: iPad is disappointing, UBS says | BGR – market share or profit share?
Web of no web
The Mind Bending Future of Computer Science | Socialnomics – slide fodder
Japan Today | Smart watch review – it sounds like Sony had a sounder design approach but Samsung has advertising
Wireless
Apple & Samsung take massive 109% of mobile industry profits while competitors lose money – looks very like the PC industry