With today's reports about potential massive layoffs at MySpace, it bears noting the different characteristics that have driven the site globally.

For example, while they may share the same name, MySpace UK and US are quite different,...

The Social Media team for Ogilvy Beijing created this great graphic to explain the personality differences between social networks in China. Unlike other parts of the world, where Facebook or other social networks dominate, Chinese users tend to join with their peers from a similar background. Another posting that may...

Due to government blockage and cultural differences, China has a home-grown Social Media landscape with categories that reflect the outside world. Our China Social Media team put together this infographic to explain some of China's Social Media equivalents. The team created another graphic about Japan's Social Media.

Any...

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Formerly a highlight of any visit to Hong Kong, the last street food vendors of Hong Kong are being shut down one by one. Known as "dai pai dong," the restaurant featured in this video, located along the escalator in Central Hong Kong, was shut down about three weeks ago. The video was shot by a team that included Tem...

Asia's diverse cultures, languages and levels of economic development have always made it an exciting place to work.

Now, however, Asia's wide range of digital ecosystems have created wildly divergent virtual worlds that few people understand. These virtual worlds are, however, having a very real impact on Asias economics,...

Eric Weiner, bestselling author of Geography of Bliss and fellow former foreign correspondent lists the options for our breed.

This list was originally composed thinking in terms of a 40-something foreign correspondent who had spent enough years living rough out in the field. Now, with the slashing...

Herdict, an Internet censorship tracking service launched by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has started aggregating their user-reported Internet blockages.

Iran and China stand out in the reported number of blockages of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube. Interestingly, Mexico has quite a few blockages as...

The recent blockage of YouTube in China brought a hitherto little-known site to prominence.

That site, Herdict, is brainchild of Jonathan Zittrain, author and Internet academic extraordinaire, who wanted to unleash Web 2.0 tools for tracking online censorship.

A collaborative approach to reporting of Internet...

Early this month the Financial Times launched China Confidential, a high-end, China-focused news service headed by former China bureau chief, James Kynge.

I recently interviewed Rob Grimshaw, the London-based Managing Director of FT.com, who explained in a video interview (below) why people would pay 2,000 pounds per...

Despite the economic crisis, author Eric Weiner still defends an assertion in his recent bestseller, Geography of Bliss, that Iceland is one of the happiest countries on earth.

Given that the country has gone bankrupt can that still be true?

(Cue banker joke: What is the capital...

The most amazing session I attended this year in Davos was a 2-hour Dignity Day event in a local school auditorium.

Speakers included the schoolchildren, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel, who sang Biko a capella.

Hearing Desmond Tutu speak was an incredible experience. I...

This morning I attended a breakfast with Israel president Shimon Peres who lashed out at a Spanish court probing Israel officials for alleged "crimes against humanity" relating to a 2002 Israeli attack in Gaza.

This is an accidental video exclusive, since no other journalist attending used a video...

Fresh from a meeting with some of the high profile economists here in Davos, Time Magazine and Fortune columnist Justin Fox summarizes their pessimism, with particular worry for the financing shortage faced by emerging markets.

In a separate video, Pascale Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization, described...

After explaining at length in Davos how he foresaw the economic crisis, George Soros says that he made a "pretty good return" from the market turmoil.

Soros did not offer up any investment tips, but the man who broke the Bank of England said he had been once again looking...