Sino-Japanese Relations in Africa
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/08/31/rising-sino-japanese-competition-in-africa/ During late August, the Japanese Prime Minister stated at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development that Japan would begin investing more money($30 billion dollars) in African support. This appears to be an attempt to gain some political leverage in Africa. China has already had continuous support of several African nations, but Japan is […]
Samsung is blowing up, literally
The Note 7 Meltdown Will Haunt Samsung for a Long, Long Time http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/12/technology/samsung-note-7-recall-battery-fires-stock/ The article discusses Samsung’s new phone, the Samsung Note 7. This phone is Samsung’s flagship phone but due to a faulty battery, there have been several dozen cases in which the devices have caught on fire or have just straight blown up. […]
Wal-Mart: Trading Made Simple
https://www.tradegecko.com/blog/incredibly-successful-supply-chain-management-walmart In class we have discussed trading networks. From the general seller-to-buyer graphs, to including a middle man trader between the sellers and buyers. However, when in class we have only really looked at a basic level of these graphs, with typically only one level of traders (perhaps to simplify all of the trading), […]
How Ideologies Impact Web Structure
http://qz.com/780675/how-do-internet-censorship-and-surveillance-actually-work/ The internet seems to be a nebulous entity: uncategorizable, wild, and purely connective by it’s nature; however, this is not always the case as the structure of the internet varies from country to country and by ideology to ideology. As such, the internet’s nature and the freedom users experience online is tied directly […]
The rotten foundations of China’s real-estate market
This article discusses China’s rapidly expanding real estate market. Despite prices increasing by 30%, there is still an rising demand for new property. To meet the demands of the people, new housing the size of Singapore would need to be built every year until 2030. Most people are looking for property in the big cities, […]
Apple and their growing product line
In class we’ve talked quite a bit about matching markets, and finding the best prices such that every person values an item more than any person values that item. In real life, we see this concept happening quite often. Particularly in companies that are trying to monopolize your technological ecosystem like Apple, Microsoft and Google. […]
Netflix’s Power in the Entertainment Industry Network
Netflix has seized the entertainment industry by storm. One attribute of Netflix’s rise can be pointed to its production of original content. Its production of 30 original series this year, compared to only 1 in 2013 (House of Cards), makes Netflix the top producer of programming among all cable stations and networks. Along with Netflix’s […]
Open Source Software in an Internet-Driven World
Advanced software packages are not cheap. They often require the purchase of a personal license, which can cost hundreds of dollars per year unless subsidized by an employer, university, etc. However, there is an increasing movement to make such packages more accessible to the public: companies have been making their work open source, which means […]
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