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Digital Culture in China: NUMBERS & TRENDS

Here is a recent presentation I’ve done about the numbers and trends on Internet usage in China […]

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Economics Information Technology Trend Watching

Internet in Brazil: Internet surpasses ATMs in banking transactions

The Internet has become the channel most used banking services in the country, reveals the Diagnosis of Retail Payment System of Brazil report by the Brazilian Central Bank for the year past. The network already accounts for nearly 31% of bank transactions, exceeding the self-service terminals (ATM) […]

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Economics Information Technology Trend Watching

Internet in Brazil: Active Internet users grew 14% year-on-year

The number of active Internet users in Brazil in September 2011 was 46,300,000, an increase of 14% over the same month last year. With the new number, Brazil beats Germany, France and the UK in number of active users at home or at work. The Brazil ranks third in the list of countries that monitor the internet using the same methodology […]

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Consumer Behavior Economics Information Technology

Information Technology in Brazil: bill that creates tax incentives for the production of tablets is enacted into law

Tax incentives for the production of tablets in Brazil were enacted into law recently, according to publication of the provisional measure that stimulates the manufacture of the devices in the country free of PIS and Cofins in the Diário Oficial da União. Devices that have “a central processing unit with input and output data through a touch screen area exceeding 140 square centimeters with no keyboard” will benefit from the new law. […]

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Consumer Behavior Economics Information Technology Trend Watching

Consumer Behavior in Brazil: Internet is the media that most influences buying tablet computers

The Internet is the medium that most influences the decision to buy a tablet for the Brazilians, according to market research firm Ipsos in nine Brazilian markets. The comments by word of mouth are second in time to help the user decide to purchase […]

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Design Information Technology Innovation Software Trend Watching

Gary Flake demos Pivot and asks “is it a turning point for web exploration?” talk at TED

Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing […]

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China Consumer Behavior Economics Information Technology Trend Watching

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Chinese consumers choosier, web-savvy

Chinese consumers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their tastes and expect a wider range of better products, according to a report released Monday that says local companies lead foreign ones in using e-commerce to expand sales […]

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China Consumer Behavior Economics Information Technology Trend Watching

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Digital revolution drives retail

Chinese companies appear to be taking much more aggressive steps than their foreign counterparts to embrace the Internet as a sales channel, according to a recent survey […[

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China Economics Information Technology Trend Watching

Internet in China: Who Owns the Chinese Internet?

In an article in Caixin, George Washington University Law Professor Donald Clarke looks at the contractual role of foreign IT companies operating in China […]

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Design Innovation Software

Watch Drew Davidson’s “Design for Fun: What Makes a Game Good, and a Good Game?” talk at MIT Media Lab

Drew Davidson likes to play with blocks in his sandbox, as he demonstrates in a show-and-tell to interactive media colleagues. In this case, the playground is an online game called Minecraft, a two-year-young internet sensation with millions of followers, developed single-handedly by a programmer named “Notch,” A.K.A. Markus Persson [..]