Below are a list of business-related links from this past week (mostly in terms of China). Thanks to Matt S and Sinocism for most of them. The number in (brackets) is the book chapter that more detailed information about the topic can be found.
- A Silver Lining in China’s Smog from The Wall Street Journal (Ch 18)
- A Mysterious Gathering of Chinese Tech Royalty from The Wall Street Journal (Ch 12)
- Top China college in focus with ties to army’s cyber-spying unit from Reuters (Ch 13)
- On the Reliability of Chinese Output Figures from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Fransisco (Ch 1)
- China’s Teen Gamers Revealed, From In-Depth Demographics to Deepest Desires [INFOGRAPHIC] from Tech In Asia (Ch 14)
- China Has 160 Million Active Android Users, 85 Million on iOS (INFOGRAPHIC) from Tech In Asia (Ch 13)
- China Natural Gas Frenzy Explodes on Price Hike Rumors from The Wall Street Journal (Ch 17)
- Shockingly Unshocking: ‘Cybersecurity’ FUD Has Been Big Big Business For Contractors from Techdirt (Ch 13 and art of cui bono)
- How China’s exploding market for apps is exactly like Hollywood from Quartz (Ch 13 & 14)
- In China’s Competitive Marriage Market, Some Now Seeking ‘Budget’ Spouses from Tea Leaf Nation (Ch 4)
- Will China’s Renminbi Replace the Dollar as the World’s Top Currency? from ChinaFile (Ch 1)
- A New Mobile Operating System That Hopes to ‘Kill Apple Eventually’ from Tea Leaf Nation (Ch 20)
- And The Award For History’s Least Creative Rebranding Goes To… from The Wall Street Journal (Ch 12)
- Gartner predicts 3D printers will cost less than a PC by 2016 from Network World (Ch 7)
- China builds on border trade from People’s Daily (Ch 5 & 7)
- Android Trojan Found in Targeted Attack from Secure List (Ch 13 & 20)
- Credit system to rein in matchmaking agencies from Shanghai Daily (Ch 4)
- The Iron Rice Bowl Is Back: Why Young Chinese Want to Be Civil Servants from TIME (Ch 9)
- China Unicom Net Profit Up 68.5% from China Tech News (Ch 15)
- Boeing delivers 1,000th airplane to China from Xinhua (Ch 17)
- Quarter of U.S. firms in China face data theft: business lobby from Reuters (Ch 13 and art of cui bono)
- How Booksellers Have Turned a Page on Online Competitors from Caixin (Ch 2)
- A Beijing taxi driver knows better about taxi apps from Technode (Ch 12 & 13)