danniliu's blog

Have you ever thought about using Twitter to advertise your business? Recently, a family-owned Turkish restaurant in the gentrifying East London attracts lots of people. What first drew those people, though, wasn’t the food. It was the commentary on the restaurant’s Twitter feed. The restaurant’s uniqueness impressed many customers.                           This is just one successful case of using Twitter. The truth is small businesses, such as florists, pubs and restaurants can all make good use of the free and popular…read more

Marriott, a popular hotel, recently disabled personal hotspots intentionally while charging its customers high fees to use the hotel’s own Wi-Fi network at the same time. This behaviour is really short-sighted: the hotel basically forced the customers to pay twice for the same service, and in the end, it had to pay a large amount of fine. What is worse, its reputation was totally destroyed, and one can imagine the long term profit will be negatively affected since not many customers will want to stay in Marriott in the future…read more

               vs.           If a mining company tries to mine in or near  the First Nations territory, there is  always a danger that the First Nation will try to sabotage it. This is happening to Taseko Mines Ltd. which is planning to mine copper and gold at Fish Lake. Tsilhqot is set to declare a vast chunk of Chilcotin as a tribal park, covering the company’s Fish Lake site.  If the native tribe wins the claim, the mining company will not…read more

There is a rumour that Tesla is going to add automated driving or driving assist system in the Model S which is a luxury sedan. Actually before there were some automakers already started to develop this technology, such as Volkswagon and Mecedes-Benz. This new technology is basically to install a radar and a camera in front of a vehicle to detect all the obstacle. Furthermore, this allows car to park themselves and automatically maintain a safe distance from the car in front of. I believe this is a future tendency…read more