The Haier, the better

How many Chinese brands do you know? Well, chances are you’ve heard about Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s PC division, but apart from that there are few other known examples in our part of the globe. Considering that China is expected to become the world’s largest exporter in 2010, maybe it’s time you learn some of China’s top brands, according to Financial Times (via the Globalist).

1. Haier (electronics)
2. Lenovo (computers)
3. China Mobile (cell phones)
4. Tsingtao Brewery (brewing)
5. Ping An (financial)
6. Bank of China (banking)
7. CCTV (television)
8. Air China (airlines)
9. Huawei (telecommunications)
10. Sohu.com (internet)

My Technorati cosmos doubled in a day

A few days ago Technorati suddenly said that the number of links to my blog are about 354, up from about 177 in no-time. Naturally I began to wonder why this figure is double the amount from the day before? It seems that Technorati has been doing some changes to the way they count incoming links and now displays links from blogs over the last six months. I’m unsure if this is the reason though.

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CEO turns sailing blogger

Arne Mårtensson steps down as Group CEO of Handelsbanken, one of Sweden’s largest banks, to go sailing round the world for three years. He also declines renominations to the boards of Handelsbanken (where he is chairman), Ericsson (vice chairman), Sandvik, Skanska, Industrivärden, Holmen and Vin&Sprit.; During his trip he will be writing a blog on http://www.yaghanvoyages.blogspot.com/.