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Nov 2
(via China’s Digital Media Are Super-Accelerated And Super-Competitive | paidContent) Business in China, check out the slides in this article.  Makes me want to head to Beijing for a few years to get a hang of the market.  (All despite my previous post about food…)

(via China’s Digital Media Are Super-Accelerated And Super-Competitive | paidContent)

Business in China, check out the slides in this article.  Makes me want to head to Beijing for a few years to get a hang of the market.  (All despite my previous post about food…)

Posted 6 months ago

Business in China, China, Startups,

Nov 2
What influences your decisions at the store – produce, or country of origin? A friend-of-a-friend who worked for the FDA said she avoided produce from China.  I don’t consider the FDA to be supremely critical, but I don’t purchase food products from China if I can help it.* *Recent scandals about reselling used cooking oil, the issues with milk and formula, etc. freak me out.

What influences your decisions at the store – produce, or country of origin?

A friend-of-a-friend who worked for the FDA said she avoided produce from China.  I don’t consider the FDA to be supremely critical, but I don’t purchase food products from China if I can help it.*

*Recent scandals about reselling used cooking oil, the issues with milk and formula, etc. freak me out.

Reblogged 7 months ago from npr

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Produce, China,

Oct 5

Rebecca MacKinnon, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said that any attempt by Alibaba to buy Yahoo was likely to be “highly controversial”, given the negative reaction in Congress last year when Chinese equipment maker Huawei attempted to become a supplier to Sprint, the US telecoms company.

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China group’s eye on Yahoo fuels privacy fears - FT.com

This is going to sooner than later.  Maybe not a sale specifically between Yahoo and Alibaba, but between China and the US.  China has a number of investors with cash on hand interested in technology.  There are also a number of tech companies who want to break into China.

I say, get this going!  With the current economic climate, I can’t say I am at all surprised.  I’m only surprised it has taken this long for China to pursue the big names to buy and invest in… 

I am actually looking forward to all of the incidental conversations that will come from a big Alibaba-esque buy:  What do we do with information?  How is my aggregated information treated?  How is my personal information treated?  What does this do to China and the US, politically? 

How many US C-level executives have spent significant time based in China in the recent past? Or India?  It’s very few from what I’m familar with.  This may have to be a future topic to research.  

Posted 7 months ago

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China, Tech, Online, Information privacy, Privacy,

Apr 25
I’m headed to Guilin later this week for a mini-holiday.  Actually, I bought tickets late last year because: They were on sale  I still haven’t been to mainland China A mini-holiday is always brilliant Anyway, reading up a bit and ran across this blog post and felt compelled to make this china + beer image.  It’s Monday and I can’t wait for today and tomorrow to end so I can hop on a plane and see something new!

I’m headed to Guilin later this week for a mini-holiday.  Actually, I bought tickets late last year because:

  • They were on sale 
  • I still haven’t been to mainland China
  • A mini-holiday is always brilliant

Anyway, reading up a bit and ran across this blog post and felt compelled to make this china + beer image.  It’s Monday and I can’t wait for today and tomorrow to end so I can hop on a plane and see something new!

Posted 1 year ago

China, Beer,

Mar 22

I’m thinking about visiting China (a few days, maybe a week…):  where should I go?  Shanghai?  Beijing?  Let me know…

Posted 1 year ago

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China, Travel,