Shanghaiist sports editor Maggie Rauch writes a biweekly column in Chinese for the 21st Century Business Herald. Below is a translation of her column from yesterday on today’s men’s basketball game between China and the USA.
China plays the United States in men’s basketball tonight at Wukesong Arena, in what is for Chinese fans one of [...]

This is an interesting article from Kiwi’s Sunday Star Times.
Journalist Greg Ninnesson reports in Marriage made in Hell for upset pizza franchisees that some of Hell Pizza’s franchisees are not pleased with the new mandatory supply arrangements.
No wonder: A monopoly is bad for the whole economy because it leads to inefficient allocation of capital and [...]

“Tian Liang is an older brother. Kenneth Fok makes me more beautiful”
— Olympic diver Guo Jingjing on the men in her life, diver Tian Liang and playboy Kenneth Fok

For sports apparel brands, the Olympics are arguably the most important stage for marketing. So how did the sports marketers fare with the Chinese market in these Olympics? Here’s a look at how things played out for Adidas, Li-Ning, Nike, Puma and Speedo.
Adidas

Adidas reportedly shelled out 70 million euros to be an official Olympic sponsor. [...]

Benchmarking Overview:
In 1912, Henry Ford of The Ford Motor Company watched men cut meat during a tour of a Chicago slaughter house. The carcasses were hanging on hooks mounted on a monorail. After each man performed his job he would push the carcass to the next station. Less than six months later, the worlds first [...]

If you ran a construction company and had a world-class bricklayer, would you make him carry bricks? More than likely, if you have a world-class bricklayer, you would probably have one person carrying bricks to him and another mixing mortar.
By doing so, the world-class bricklayer can ply his trade more efficiently and make a beautiful [...]

Conferences, barcamps galore abound in this city, sign up quickly for the Open Web Vancouver conference, including:
2 jam packed days of technology talks

keynotes: Tim Bray on the future face of the web and Zak Greant on Visionary look at open source

Web 2.0 Design Patterns, Models and Analysis by Duane Nickull

some of my favourite PHP speakers; [...]