When The New World opens up at two special theaters, one in Tokyo and one in Osaka, moviegoers will not only see and hear the movie, they will also be able to smell the movie. And it won’t smell like popcorn or shrimp chips.
During emotional scenes, romance and anger, fragrances sill be dispensed.
NTT Communications is the, […]
Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo recently shared a few anecdotes that, I think, speak volumes about business in China.
He told of a time that he visited China when he was still CEO of Warner Brothers There was a point when they were negotiating the establishment of theaters in China where they could show Warner Bros. flicks.
He said about the […]
Jack Ma, born in the year of the dragon, speaks of himself as ugly and smart.
Taobao , the Chinese version of eBay.com was started in the midst of hte SARS epidemic. In fact, 600 of Alibaba’s employees were quarantined because another employee was diagnosed with the disease. Undeterred they launched their new venture.
Here are a […]
I admit it, I am a bit slow. This is old news and may have been discussed elsewhere. But I haven’t seen anything….could be because I don’t get out much.
There was the corn ball from Falun Gong that disrupted the Hu’s speech recently. Well, there still seems to be some fall out.
The Chinese embassy has […]
Jack Ma started Alibaba with 18 friends and $60,000 of their own money…none borrowed from VCs, parents or otherwise.
He came upon the name at a San Francisco restaraunt when talking to a waitress. He liked it because Alibaba is pronounced the same everywhere in the world and ‘open says a me’ business opportunities to everyone […]
There are four countries that are driving the global growth of stock markets. Three of them are in Asia - China, Russia and India. The fourth is Brazil (it’s not in Asia. But, then you knew that, right?)
According to the IMG these four countries account for 30% of growth. That’s a lot out of four […]
Shanghai Tang knows what Chuppies like. If you are planning on going into the luxury item business in China you might want to ask her.
Which is more important to the Asian market - creativity or prestige?
If you answered prestige you are right. But, that’s not the American way, is it? We want to create something and […]
The Committee of 100 is a national, nonpartisan organization composed of prominent American citizens of Chinese descent. The members of this group pool their resources to address important issues that concern the Chinese/American community but, imho, more importantly foster better US-Greater China relations.
Recently, this group tasked the polling firm ZOGBY to conduct an extensive survey […]
In a previous blog I wrote that Mphasis dealt with American Hostility.
Now, I think Mphasis doesn’t care. Electronic Data Systems Corp. offered $380 million to purchase 52% of the company. Now that!, makes me angry.
The past month alone, Mphasis’ value shot up 15%! Infosys is trading at more than 35 times its expected 2006 […]
Sake - the SA is pronounced like the so in sod. And the KE is pronounced like the ke in Ken. Not like ‘key’. If you say it right you will already sound cool.
Last year, exports from Japan to the US were almost 3 million liters, up nearly 70% from 5 years ago and double what […]
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