It’s easy to get lost in the quant - take a look at the numbers: the mobile youth market is worth over $250 billion. However, numbers are meaningless without the qualitative. So, following the earlier post on Youth Trends in China, here’s a short presentation on Chinese Youth vintage fashion from Youthology.
The innovative nature [...] [...more]
We hear a lot about youth not spending like they used to on music. Change it appears has not favoured the record industry. However, one can’t deny innovation such as Radiohead’s flexible charging models and the subsequent fan response as a vindication that while the charging models may be suspect, the $250 billion mobile youth [...] [...more]
Having failed miserably in the U.S. Disney plans to launch a mobile phone service in Japan next year offering customers animated content.
Disney will use mobile phone carrier Softbank Corp’s network and the two would jointly develop handsets, according to Nikkei business daily.
Disney’s entray into Japan as a mobile virtual network operator is likely to trigger further competition in an already saturated [...] [...more]