Month: January 2019
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3 year phone contracts + more things
Paying for Keeps | CC Insight – 3-year phone contracts will suppress smartphone market even further, that includes 5G handsets (the why 5G in a handset is a whole other question). 3-year phone contracts will also likely encourage SIM only shopping. More wireless related content here. MOFT – World’s First Invisible Laptop Stand – of…
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DLD 2019 & things that made last week
Scott Galloway presented at DLD 2019, Munich this week. DLD is a German version of Paddy Cosgrave’s Web Summit. You get attendance from the EU, the German government and German banking and industry as well as the tech sector. For those that don’t know him, Scott Galloway is a business professor at NYU’s Stern School…
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Things that I am reading at the moment
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly I have been a subscriber to the US edition of Wired magazine for longer than I care to remember. We’re living in a different time now and the future that Wired features isn’t as thrilling as it once was. Kevin Kelly was one of the founding editorial team and…
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Airlines + more things
Fliers Find an Old Friend on More Planes: Empty Seats – WSJ – Airlines’ average passenger loads first crossed 80% capacity in 2007, after climbing from 55% in 1978. Ryanair and other discount airlines must skew these numbers, which means that other airlines must run almost empty flights on some routes. Friends Don’t Let Friends…
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Apple and Jaguar Land Rover in China
Apple and Jaguar Land Rover blamed the Chinese economy for their recent financial results. The truth is probably more complex. What factors are affecting affecting Apple and Jaguar Land Rover that aren’t directly related to the Chinese economy? The reality is that Apple and Jaguar Land Rover are being buffeted by very different forces, some…
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ICYMI | 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우
Ogilvy consulting – the digital transformation arm of ad agency Ogilvy put together their annual trends presentation, which is worth going through. Ogilvy Consulting came out of Social@Ogilvy, Ogilvy Red and OgilvyOneMore related content here. About Placement asset customization on Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network | Facebook Ads Help Center – via James Whatley Evaluating…
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K pop bandwagon & things that made last week
Puma have got on the K pop bandwagon to sell sneakers to Indonesians. Historically Korean brands have been most adept at getting on the K pop bandwagon. It is as common as chips in Korea. They have started to extend these K pop bandwagon campaigns abroad. Foreign brands have started to get in on the…
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Cathay ticketing error + more things
Cathay ticketing error … again: first-class fares at tenth of original price – Is there problems in Cathay’s Pacific backend algorithm that is causing the Cathay ticketing error? This is the second time that a Cathay ticketing error has happened recently. More related posts here. NGT48 pop idol Maho Yamaguchi’s apology for home assault sparks…
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Is it China, or western companies in a financial crisis? Part 1
I was talking to friends about Apple’s letter to investors on January 2. This was almost a month after Jaguar Land Rover had disclosed sales problems in China. The key question that came out was how much were Apple milking the Chinese situation? Was the bulk of their problems really down do China? Or was…