Category: luxury | 奢華 | 사치 | 贅沢
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Windows Phone + more news
No New Windows Phone Models on Tap for Barcelona – Nokia It’s shaping up to be a rough Mobile World Congress for Microsoft, with little new expected on either the hardware or software front for Windows Phone – not necessarily that rough, the handsets could be lost in the noise. No new Windows Phone models…
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Zegna + more news
Zegna licenses brand name to eyewear manufacturer to expand category – Zegna had previously made their eyewear products on their own. The Zegna deal is yet another indicator of how eyewear manfacture is becoming a global oligarchy in terms of market dynamics. This oligarchy has implications in terms of market power for luxury brands like…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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ChinaLeaks + more news
ChinaLeaks ChinaLeaks: Exposé on Chinese elite’s offshore accounts comes at sensitive time | South China Morning Post – ChinaLeaks is a data set of some 22,000 documents received by the ICIJ that relate to members of China‘s political elites including relatives of Xi Jingping. The documents show how professional service firms helped them hide assets…
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Galaxy Gear + more news
Galaxy Gear No shanzhai Galaxy Gear smartwatches – Shanzhai is the innovation / counterfeit ecosystem in Chinese manufacturing. They make fake iPhones and feature phones with a built in razor, or modelled after a Coke can. So why should Samsung be worried about a lack of Galaxy Gear clones? Shanzhai manufacturers have many faults, but…