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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Google Continues Offline Ad Campaigns For Chrome In The Netherlands	Google is really serious about using offline media to push its Web browser. After running ads for Google Chrome in the UK, it has today started a similar campaign in The Netherlands, too. Like in the UK, we're getting reports on billboards appearing all over the country in combination with digital advertising appearing on Facebook and other sites. Also like in the UK, Google is distributing its message through Metro, a free daily that can be picked up in many public places all over the country....	December 16, 2009
NSFW: Undressing models and messing with Daniel Ek. There are apps for that	Day two of Le Web and I’m hard at work: perched on the edge of a gigantic bed in the speakers’ lounge, having an important meeting with my friend Andy. Our agenda: trying to come up with amusing ways to fuck with Daniel Ek of Spotify. Ek (pronounced “Eek” – he’s Swedish) recently became our favourite comedy target after we heard a Spotify employee telling a girl that he sometimes acts as Ek’s (”Eek’s”) bodyguard at important gatherings....	December 13, 2009
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds’ Bed To Tweet During Sex. Not Kidding.	When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend’s wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding though, that’s another story. This man, who is choosing to stay anonymous, has set up this Twitter account for the sole purpose of automatically tweeting when the newlyweds are having sex. I’m not kidding. Read the entire tweet stream from the bottom up if you want the full story. But basic...	December 12, 2009
The European Gang Hits Le Web, Compares Silicon Valley To Europe	TechCrunch writer Paul Carr forced me to write about his on-stage panel discussion at the Le Web conference, and as usual when people threaten me with violence, I was happy to oblige. But it was really a good thing he twisted my arm, especially considering the fact that there was more than one TC’er in the panel: TechCrunch Europe editor Mike Butcher was also very much present. The other panel members were all Europeans, too, which may well have something to do with the fact that the topic...	December 10, 2009
Banker Bonuses: Is the U.K. Government Shooting Itself In the Foot?	Our colleague Matt Tuner over at Financial News Online has done some interesting calculations. According to Turner , The value of the UK Government’s 84% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland fell Wednesday by almost as much as the government is hoping to gain in revenue from a special tax on large banker bonuses. Check out these numbers: Around £640m was wiped off the value of RBS in the three and a half hours after Chancellor Darling presented his pre-budget report. The government own...	December 09, 2009
British Bankers Book Flights To Geneva	U.K. bankers are getting a large lump of coal in their stockings this bonus season. Treasury Secretary Alistair Darling said the government is planning a one-time 50% charge on bank bonuses larger than £25,000 ($40,725). Bloomberg News Bankers are, of course, aghast, with many predicting the end of London as a global financial hub. A year ago the same U.K. government determined that President Barack Obamas plan to cap compensation was too extreme. But with an election looming, the U...	December 09, 2009
Markets Gyrate On Debt Concerns	US stocks slide amid a raft of sovereign debt related news, including a downgrade in Dubai and a warning to the US and UK. DJIA drops 104 (1%) to 10286, S&P 500 loses 11 (1%) to 1092, Nasdaq Comp falls 17 (0.8%) to 2173. Dollar rises again, crude, gold, stocks all drop. Markets jarred by continued debt problems in Greece and Dubai, and warnings to the US and UK. But the key word there is “continued.” Greece and Dubai’s problems aren’t exactly new (neither are the US o...	December 08, 2009
The Difficult Arithmetic of Chinese Consumption	How fast does consumption need to grow in China in order for a meaningful rebalancing to take place? Probably a lot more than you think. This is arithmetically the case because China is starting from such a low base. At roughly $1.2 trillion in 2008, total Chinese private consumption is only a little more than that of France (around $1.0 trillion) and still less than that of Germany (about $1.3 trillion, not to mention the UK’s $1.4 trillion and Japan’s $3.2 trillion). This fact a...	December 06, 2009
NSFW: Sleepless in London. It’s scary outside the bubble	I’m tired. Very tired. It’s a little after 4am San Francisco time – noon GMT – and I’m sitting in the arrivals lounge Heathrow airport, thanking the lord for Boingo hotspots and trying to commit these few hundred words to cyberspace before the daylight finally penetrates my brain and my whole body goes into jet-lag meltdown. And to think I was so organised 24 hours ago. My column was written – 1000 words on a big subject of the week; a big subject that I now c...	December 06, 2009
MySpace Music Finally Lands In The UK	MOG may well be hitting a sweet spot with its All Access service, but it's only available in the United States for now. Its most obvious competitor, MySpace Music, was too (apart from Australia and New Zealand) until a minute ago when the company made its official debut in the United Kingdom just over a year and two months after it was launched stateside. Looks like the Telegraph's sources were only a couple of months off, ultimately. Anyway, MySpace users in the UK can now enjoy the same free...	December 02, 2009