iTV-Asia Weekly Update

    Jean Liu

    Marketing and Strategy Leader,
    IBM Global Technology Services – Greater China Group

    Alvin Foo

    Head of Mobile,
    Google Greater China

    王瑾 Vivian Wang

    红樽坊负责人

    Frank Coleman and Jon Pageler

    Frank Coleman - Sr. VP of Communications and Public Affairs, Distilled Spirits Council
    Jon Pageler – Sr. VP of Communications and Public Policy (North America), Diageo

    Asher Esakoff

    Business Director,
    Mailman Group

    CURRENT NEWS & ARTICLES

    Asian Scientist
    Added on Jan 24, 2012
        The US National Science Board (NSB) recently came out with a study that reports that U...
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    Frustrated Chinese Internet User
    Added on Jan 24, 2012
        Everybody in China knows that data transfer rates here, even between domestic servers...
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    Exclusive Chinese Social Network
    Added on Jan 24, 2012
      The most powerful engine of brand awareness in China is, undoubtedly, social media. The count...
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    Beijing Shopping Street
    Added on Jan 19, 2012
      A recent spate of articles on blogs - and in the New York Times – have been debating wh...
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    Smokestacks
    Added on Jan 19, 2012
        The air quality of Asian cities is famously bad, and the US-based Health Effects Insti...
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    SunEdison Solar Installation
    Added on Jan 18, 2012
        MEMC, announced on Monday, January 17th that the company intends to build 1 GW worth o...
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    Chinese Oil Rig
    Added on Jan 16, 2012
      Last week saw the first of what is likely to be a new round of sanctions against Chinese oil...
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    Golden Dragon
    Added on Jan 03, 2012
      With the official dawn of the Year of the Golden Dragon still three weeks away, it seems time...
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    Chinese Flag Over Keyboard
    Added on Dec 29, 2011
      Reports came out on Monday, December 26th that hackers had posted private details from 90 mil...
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    Chinese and Japanese Flags over Tiananmen
    Added on Dec 27, 2011
    On December 25th, as the children of the United States were laying snug in their beds with visions o...
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    Social gaming in China
    Added on Dec 26, 2011
    As cloud computing is rapidly becoming more than just a buzzword, it’s inevitable that cloud a...
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    Google
    Added on Dec 23, 2011
    James Fallows is famous among both technology journalists and China journalists (his Postcards from...
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    Qihoo 360 Logos
    Added on Dec 23, 2011
    Who’s jumping on China’s cloud computing bandwagon next? It looks like Qihoo 360, one of...
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    Rows of Dawning servers
    Added on Dec 23, 2011
    MorganStanley predicts that by the end of 2012, Cloud Computing- including Infrastructure-as-a-Servi...
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    Windows 8 Tablet
    Added on Dec 23, 2011
    Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 have long been the also-rans of the mobile world. As Android, Sym...
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    Augmented Central Park
    Added on Dec 22, 2011
      If there’s a candidate for “next big buzzword” waiting in the wings after c...
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    Obsolete servers
    Added on Dec 21, 2011
      China is rightly famous for it’s ability to construct infrastructure on a massive scale...
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    China Telecom Customer
    Added on Dec 20, 2011
      In recent years, Chinese companies have been going global. Almost all of China’s larges...
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    Chinese webcafe
    Added on Dec 19, 2011
      Over the last several years, China has become famous for it’s vast clubs and gangs of i...
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    Haier showroom
    Added on Dec 08, 2011
    With China’s export-driven economy hitting diminishing returns on account of the strengthening...
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    semiconductor wafer
    Added on Dec 06, 2011
    The Semiconductor Industry Association of the US recently announced that the revenues of the global...
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    NTT Data
    Added on Nov 30, 2011
    Not every company in Japan has had a bad time of it lately. NTT Data, a software and systems integra...
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    Geely Acquires Volvo
    Added on Nov 30, 2011
    November 26th saw the official inauguration of the China International Chamber of Commerce for the P...
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    Tokyo Main Board
    Added on Nov 24, 2011
    The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) announced today that it will merge with the Osaka Securities Exchange...
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    Japan's Galapagos Problem
    Added on Nov 24, 2011
    A recent poll cited Japan as having the lowest penetration of smartphones in the world, with only 16...
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    Obama at APEC Summit
    Added on Nov 24, 2011
    The 2011 APEC summit closed November 14th after five days of meetings between heads of state of 21 n...
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    Compact Generations: The Four “Generations” of China’s Young Consumers
    Added on Nov 16, 2011
    The thirty-three years since China’s period of “Reform and Opening” began feel mor...
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    Chinese Youth Retail Trends: 10 Ways the Consumer Market is Changing
    Added on Nov 11, 2011
    In 2010, the Bergstrom Group did a study of the ways in which the youth market was changing in China...
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    China’s 2011 National People’s Congress (NPC): Fine-Tuning the Economy With an E
    Added on Nov 10, 2011
    What do the decisions made at China’s 2011 National People’s Congress meeting have to do...
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    China Consumer Market Strategies 2011: A Report from Booz & Co and AmCham Shangh
    Added on Nov 09, 2011
    In the increasingly sophisticated China market, domestic companies are becoming more and more compet...
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    Theme Diner in Beijing
    Added on Nov 08, 2011
    We know the trends in retail marketing in China- but what companies and industries are taking advant...
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    China’s 12th Five-Year Plan: How it Actually Works and What’s in Store for the N
    Added on Nov 07, 2011
    In October 2010, the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee approved the country’s...
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    Japanese Carmaker Supply Chains Battered by Thailand Flooding
    Added on Nov 07, 2011
    Japan’s big three carmakers, already reeling from the fallout of Japan’s March tsunami,...
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    Shenzhou 8 Docks with Tiangong: China’s Space Ambitions Coming Closer to Reality
    Added on Nov 04, 2011
    On Wednesday, China’s unmanned Shenzhou 8 space capsule successfully docked with the Tiangong...
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    The G20 Summit: Will China Bail Out the Euro?
    Added on Nov 03, 2011
    This year’s G20 summit in Cannes, France is being held this week, and the topic on everyone...
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    Socially Conscious Investing in Developing Asia: What are the hot business model
    Added on Nov 01, 2011
    Everyone knows that investments in developing world offer potential returns far beyond their rivals...
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    Is Chinese Export Growth Over? Why Chinese Suppliers Remain Optimistic
    Added on Nov 01, 2011
    Lately, between flagging growth in the EU and US, high CPI inflation, and an increasing wariness of...
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    Is Managing Accelerated Growth in China an Inside Job?
    Added on Nov 01, 2011
    The rapid growth of the Chinese economy, combined with the lack of market penetration in many lower-...
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    Alibaba Seeks Assistance From Temasek to Buy Back Yahoo Stake
    Added on Oct 12, 2011
    Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce platform, is currently seeking financing from Temasek, Sin...
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    Fukushima Prefecture Tourist Industry Tries to Recover From Devastating Year
    Added on Oct 12, 2011
    Resorts in Fukushima Prefecture, even in areas far from the areas affected by the Fukushima Daiichi...
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    China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Acquires Major Shares in Domestic Banks
    Added on Oct 12, 2011
    Central Huijin, a unit of China’s national investment arm purchased major portions of China...
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    Nissan Launches Almera Sedan in Thailand
    Added on Oct 11, 2011
    Nissan debuted the Almera compact sedan in Thailand on October 10th, their second car launch in the...
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    Bank of Japan Must Prepare for Downside Risks – Maasaki Shirakawa
    Added on Oct 11, 2011
    Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Maasaki Shirakawa warned the bank’s board that the bank needs to...
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    Sinopec Buys Canada’s Daylight Energy
    Added on Oct 11, 2011
    China Petrochemical (Sinopec) announced October 10th that the company has agreed to acquire Canadian...
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    International Firms Trying Hard to Build Image in China
    Added on Oct 10, 2011
    German chemical company BASF SE set up a community group in Chongqing municipality to seek the opini...
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    China's Tenpay, American Express Join for International Internet Payment Service
    Added on Oct 10, 2011
    Tenpay, the Internet payment subsidiary of Chinese technology firm Tencent, and American Express hav...
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    Chinese Automaker to Deliver Buses for London Olympics
    Added on Oct 10, 2011
    The Anhui Ankai Automobile signed a contract with Britain's Big Bus Tours sightseeing company to exp...
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    Mongolian Government Approves Oyu Tolgoi Agreement
    Added on Oct 08, 2011
    After two years of negotiations, the Mongolian government has agreed to back a 2009 investment plan...
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    Sony in Talks to Buy Out Sony Ericsson Joint Venture
    Added on Oct 08, 2011
    Inside sources have recently disclosed that Sony is in talks with Ericsson regarding taking 100 perc...
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    Hsieh Fu Hua Steps Down as President of Temasek
    Added on Oct 08, 2011
    Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s US$160 billion sovereign wealth fund, announced last week that t...
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