by Tom | Oct 12, 2011 | Business, Reading
Guardian Makes Editorial Schedule Public, Invites Readers to Contribute. Interesting experiment, and I hope they continue it. A good way to make the process of journalism more comprehensible and therefore more valuable.
by Tom | Oct 11, 2011 | Business, Reading
Daniel Soar reviews ‘The Googlisation of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)’ by Siva Vaidhyanathan, ‘In the Plex’ by Steven Levy and ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ by Douglas Edwards · LRB 6 October 2011. Great summary of the way Google works. My take-outs: we...
by Tom | Oct 11, 2011 | Business
Pay at the top: to each according to results? to social contribution? … or to systemic privilege? summarises some rather depressing contributions to the debate. Are high executive and banking pay related to results? Or to social value added? Or does executive...
by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China
I hadn’t really got the idea of guanxi – a “network of connections and favours” – which helps oil the wheels of Chinese business. This article helped a lot: Why Latin American Companies Can’t Thrive In China –...
by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | Business
Fortune 500. Fascinating interactive chart based on rank, revenue and profits of Fortune 500 from 1955. I enjoyed seeing quite how short the life of companies can be and how unexpectedly curved their trajectories can be.
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China
Google doesn’t seem bothered about competing on search in China, preferring to focus on its advertising platforms such as DoubleClick and Android. Gives an interesting peek into their key priorities.
