Archive for 'Business and Employment'
Iphone in China
The 3G Iphone has just been unveiled by Steve Jobs at the WWDC. The world wide launch date is July 11th when it will go on sale in 70 markets including Canada, Hong Kong and Australia.
The inclusion of Chinese handwriting recognition suggests they have their eyes on the Middle Kingdom. If you ever go to [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Business and Employment, China, Shanghai, technology.
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Canadian Suits From Shanghai
I’ve just been checking out Indochino’s online tailoring website.
Indochino is a Canadian company with offices in Vancouver and Shanghai. It runs a website that sells made to measure suits over the Internet for as little as $199, which can be a great bargain if you don’t mind waiting for your suit to to arrive from [...]
Posted: May 3rd, 2008 under Business and Employment, China, Internet, Shanghai, e-commerce.
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Fashion Beyond Flickr
You can now see pictures of Jenny’s new collection on her website (www.jnfashionstudio.com), but this was only possible after we moved her pictures from Flickr to Picasa.
Flickr is an Internet photo sharing site that has been broken in China since the beginning of June. The site works, but you can’t see any images unless you [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Business and Employment, Internet, Shanghai, culture.
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All Our Customers Are Money Launderers
We don’t like bankers very much at the moment. They spare us from keeping our pennies in a shoebox under the floorboards, but sometimes banks enrage us with their arrogance and inflexibility. We are reminded how Jesus got picked a fight with the money lenders while he got on well enough with prostitutes and homosexuals. [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2007 under Business and Employment, Shanghai.
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High Street Old-Timers Strut their Stuff Again (M&S)
This Guardian article shows that Marks and Spencer’s have bounced back to profits of £1 billion last enjoyed in 1997. Success was attributed to new innovative marketing campaigns, a successful restrcutring under Stuart Rose and new look shops.
They had big problems as they failed to compete with cheaper more modern high street competitors leading to [...]
Posted: November 30th, 2006 under Business and Employment, ITGS, e-commerce, technology.
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