Category: luxury | 奢華 | 사치 | 贅沢
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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…
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Revlon China + more news
Revlon China Revlon to shut down China operations – US cosmetics company Revlon says it was shutting down its operations in China to cut costs. The move will cost 1,100 people to lose their jobs. Revlon accounted for just 2 percent of the companies global revenue, so the decision to leave China must have been…
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Secret handshakes + more
Secret handshakes Secret Handshakes Greet Frat Brothers on Wall Street – Bloomberg – when I was growing up it was the secret handshake of freemasonry that was supposed to unlock success. Or if you moved in the right circles, it was the secret handshakes and phrases that indicated that you had attended a certain public…
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Beyonce + more news
Beyonce Beyonce Sells 1 Million Albums on Apple’s iTunes in Five Days – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD – non-piracy aspects at work affecting the sale of the latest Beyonce album. Beyonce is arguably the most popular performer in the music industry right now. Beyonce has amplified her work through making visual albums. Despite…
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Roaringwild + more news
Roaringwild ROARINGWILD ONLINE STORE – Roaringwild is a Shenzhen-based streetwear brand. Roaringwild is part of a wider domestic streetwear eco-system including Shanghai label Colorbaner. Although it is streetwear, it is a world away from the collage and naturalistic handwriting style. Instead it takes a minimal futuristic approach. There are references Roaringwild pieces to Dieter Rams…
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Geomerics + more news
Geomerics ARM Acquires Geomerics | EE Times – Geomerics isn’t a household name. Its a small software company that was spun out of Cambridge University. Geomerics specialises in software that helps designers, including games designers make digital objects seem more real. Geomerics is most famous for Enlighten, a software tool that simulates light in real…
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Taobao models + more news
Taobao models Modelling for Taobao, what a way to make a living｜WantChinaTimes.com – Taobao models face a number of challenges in their working lives. Their work is unstable by nature. More surprising, was poor social opinion of Taobao models in China. All of which add up to personally challenging roles for the young women who…