Month: February 2014

  • Social hygiene

    Social hygiene – preamble This post is part of an on-again, off-again series of posts about eight trends that I think are shaping things. In this one I wanted to deal with a concept that I call social hygiene. Social way of life and social hygiene Social as a channel has become engrained into our…

  • Occupy Central + more news

    Occupy Central Occupy Central — commonly used phrase – Occupy Central was the most commonly used new phrase used by the Hong Kong press in 2013. Occupy Central was derived from international movement Occupy Wall Street, but Occupy Central had a distinctly Hong Kong focused agenda. But experts said it was surprising that the regional…

  • Bright Smart & more news

    Bright Smart Securities Bright Smart plans IPO for online broadcaster – Hong Kong broker Bright Smart Securities said it plans to spin off an online broadcasting business. An online broadcasting business is a bit of an odd game for Bright Smart Securities to be in – given that they mostly do options and share trading…

  • The Sony post

    If business books were ever written like a Greek tragedy, they would probably read a lot like the history of Sony. If you follow this blog at all you will notice that I occasionally review past technologies or gadgets and Sony is the brand which featured most prominently with six posts so far. This is…

  • DuPont plastic & more news

    DuPont plastic counterfeited Chinese “counterfeit” DuPont plastic prompted Aston Martin’s giant recall – Surely physical testing would have shown that the counterfeit Dupont plastic product wasn’t to spec? It makes me wonder about the inbound quality control at Aston Martin on materials. It makes sense that counterfeiters would go after a brand like DuPont plastic.…

  • Dinner porn + more news

    Mok-bong – Korean dinner porn as content Unravelling South Korea’s dinner porn | Dazed – Korean dinner porn is actually about loneliness and vicarious eating for dieters. Korea seems to have spawned this dinner porn on local stream apps. They call it ‘mok-bang’ or literally eating room Business TelecomTV | Microsoft names new CEO: guess…

  • Novartis & more news

    Novartis Novartis slashing thousands more jobs in global reorganization, shifting many to India – FiercePharma – Novartis moving jobs from Switzerland to India as a bet that it will improve margins and the work will be of equivalent standard. The challenge for Novartis is the amount of intellectual property walking out between the ears of…

  • Mexico + more news

    Mexico More of America’s new cars will come from Mexico than Japan this year – Quartz – globalisation at work, will the Chinese car brands enter the US with kit assembly plants in Mexico or will they export directly from China? Economics ECB ‘alarm bells ring’ at inflation fall | Irish Examiner – oops there…

  • Blocked websites + more news

    BBC News – UK government tackles wrongly-blocked websites – yes its a complete screw-up. UK government has blocked websites for a wide variety of reasons from child porn to protecting Premier League match video piracy Consumer behaviour Data point: Holding on to tradition in a fast-changing world | JWT Intelligence Ideological segregation and the effects…