I really admire Xu’s blog, ” Sustainability”.

First, it’s about environment problem with economy concern. And all the sustainability problems are becoming the “human problems” or “world wide problems”. So in my opinion, Xu chose a very hot topic and tried to make it attractive. Xu use a picture and the picture is pretty beautiful. What’s more, the picture is about water which Xu talked about most in his blog. In this way, Xu gives us a good example about how to choose the image you need and try to connect with your blog.

On the other hand, XU listed his resources and the links. It looks professional and the whole blog looks more organized.Viewers love neat and organized work. Xu also tried to show us the urgency for BC to come up an effective means to optimize the water management.

However, lack of examples, data, solid evidence is a big problem of this blog. If Xu can use more evidence to support his idea and show us more about what we have down for the sustainability and what we can do in the future, this would be a perfect blog. I prefer to combine with data and research report more than just statements.

Resources:

Sustainability

I love the name. “Google+ gets a C-” as a title, makes the blog more attractive.The viewers can have a good impression of this blog at the first sight. So it’s pretty good for Lizzy to have this title. It’s much better than “Google+ fails” or “Google+ doesn’t successful.”

Personally thinking, the writer use YouTube as an example, which makes a good start of the blog because YouTube is well-known and viewers know exactly what the writer means by talking about Google accounts and YouTube. After that Lizzy illustrates her idea by showing her personal experience so that she can show the fact more firmly. “My friends don’t use Google+,so I won’t use it.” It’s super direct but it targets on the point that Lizzy trying to let us notice. She did a good work because she makes it simple but not wan.

However, this blog has some problems. The first is that Lizzy didn’t insert a picture of Google+ so failed to make it with more fun. And the next thing I suggest Lizzy to do is that she can add some research data or something more official and solid to show how the Google+ gets a C-.
Resource:
http//blogs.ubc.ca/lizzycomm101/2013/11/18/google-gets-a-c/

Lafayette, the French company whose flagship store on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris is reportedly the second-most-visited site by Chinese tourists in the French capital – the first being the Eiffel Tower – has just one store in China now.The Hong Kong-headquartered luxury retailer, which owned by British, has always consider

Asia as its biggest market. Its new store will be set in Shanghai.
It seems that luxury store like Lafayette has targeted to China mainland recent years.
But the issue is, is it a good thing? Will it hurts the current revenue stream of China’s local luxury brands? The foreign luxury brands has occupied and conquered the high social status market in China and restrict the creativity of the luxury industry located in China. Besides, China need to develop the service industry in order to complete the economic transition.

Meanwhile, some white-collar’s desire to show off one’s taste for elegance locks middle-class Chinese into a competitive struggle to sport the latest and best Italian clothes, designer handbags. And when it comes to function, most of the time one can get by just well with good generic brands versus expensive luxury goods.

In the waning days of 2013, what challenge is more daunting than turning around BlackBerry ?  Competing with Apple , Samsung, Microsoft , and a growing crowd of Asian manufacturers is unattainable. The latest  news of BlackBerry —-announced that CEO Thorsten Heins would be replaced by John Chen. After the news posted, the company’s stock fell 16% in one day.

In fact, it looked like the only option besides letting the company die a slow death in a vicious market. However, it seems that BlackBerry want nothing but to keep the company intact as it turns things around. Although, other companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google were interested in buying small pieces of BlackBerry, but as Reuters reported Friday, the company’s board rejected each suitor. Even Lenovo in China Beijing want to make a deal with BlackBerry but got refused by the safety problem.

Chen’s bio boasts that he saved Sybase from bankruptcy.It’s true but Sybase couldn’t escape from being acquised. So I can understand why the suck fall down but I won’t blame that to Chen because the whole market is in a mess and the future looks no luck for BlackBerry right now. Let’s hope the change can give BlackBerry a fresh start.

“We cannot afford to stand still,” Cha said at Fortune Most Powerful Women Asia, an inaugural gathering of mostly Asia-based powerful women in business, politics, education and the arts. “Because other people are already moving ahead.”

Cha’s non-governmental advisory group is pulling recommendations for government leaders and regulators to consider. All the recommendations are as part of efforts to keep the financial situation on the run. We all know that Hong Kong “may have neglected” the development of certain areas such as the real estate market,especially the conflict between demand and supply. In the meeting, Cha said the advisory committee is encouraging the government to put resources into development of new growth areas. The real estate market is a mess and disordered. I believe the new growth parts can focus on culture industry and bank finance serving.
Cooperations are also important for Hong Kong. The opportunities are not only in China but also Indonesia and India, countries with “huge population growth, and good indications that their economies will go quite far. So　I am sure that Hong Kong will still be one of the best developed cities in Asia.

You might be an honor roll student, varsity athlete, and great humanitarian, but if you’re not the son or daughter of an affluent person, good luck getting off the wait list. At least that’s what George Washington University just confessed by revealing it gives preferential admissions treatment to applicants who need less financial aid. It’s the latest in a series of “affirmative action for the wealthy” cases.

But why should we pay more and more money to enter a university. I am a university student now, I have enjoyed my life in my university. But I also realized that my father has to pay my bills. It is twice as expensive as my classmates’ university costs in China.The brilliant fundamentalism is the reason why we need to pay so much money.   For example, GW just built a new $130 million “super dorm” and $33 million textile museum. It is not alone. The University of Pennsylvania’s gym recently underwent a $10 million renovation to include an Olympic-sized swimming pool, co-ed sauna, juice bar, golf simulator, and climbing wall. Kenyon College, a liberal arts school, has a $70 million athletic center with similar country club features. To offset the costs of their cozy amenities, colleges are also more dependent than ever before on tuition money.

Twitter began trading  at $45.10 per share at 8th November  after pricing its IPO last night at $26 per share. Or, put another way, Twitter (TWTR) left more than $1.3 billion on the table. Or, put even another way, more than twice what the company will generate in revenue this year.It is too low for twitter in most people’s opinion, while, is this a good thing or not?

To be sure, Twitter wasn’t trying to grab every last dollar. They saw Facebook (FB) take that approach last year, and believed that it helped contribute to negative sentiment against the company, both among the investors and the employees.

Twitter itself obviously wanted a bit of price pop for PR and employee morale purposes, but here’s something else employees could be thinking about today: Had Twitter priced at lower price at share and used the extra proceeds to give out holiday bonuses, it would have worked out to a lot of money  per employee.

With today’s high costs of life and increasing expense, there’s no wonder why so many people fail to make timely payments on their loans.Some people get into serious legal dispute.Struggling to pay off debts is so hard that people can destroy their lives easily.If you are overwhelmed by your financial situation and want to get back on track you should start to be serious with your debt.Slipping into a financial mess is quite easy, especially if you have to handle more than one loan. Being late on debt payments is constantly deteriorating your financial situation and before you know it your credit score will be disastrous. Having a bad credit score means that your chances of obtaining another loan will be very slim.So as a student, how can we have our financial record perfect?

There is a way called debt consolidation.Debt consolidation is a debt reduction process that allows you to combine your assorted unsecured debts such as credit cards debts into one payment. Instead of sending your credit card payment to 7 or 8 banks at different due schedule, you would make one payment to the debt consolidation company and that company will take care everything for you. It means you can compress the mess of information and  complicated details. I love this way! We need to make things simple.Thus we can stay efficient and powerful.

Private bank is to  manage the assets of rich people or high net worth individuals,which owned and operated for profit by a very powerful group of elite international bankers.

Nowadays ,Chinese private firms have rushed to apply to set up private banks, under government regulations designed to open up the much-hyped market. But the nascent sector still has a long way to go before better serving the real economy and facilitating financial reform.Over 20 listed private companies on China’s A share market have so far tried or showed interest in establishing private banks, causing related shares to surge for a string of days.( CHINA DAILY NEWS\)

With the rapid rise of Chinese economy, a rapidly growing number of rich people in China, and highly concentrated wealth,the development of private banks is rising urgently.It believes they can aid cash-strapped small businesses and mitigate financial risks.

The boom in Internet finance may well pave the way for private capital to enter the banking sector.However, private capital should stay alert to risks when entering the banking sector as bankruptcy may risk a spillover that could have an impact on the economy.

Excitement and volatility are nothing new to an emerging market. Private banks may have a chance to develop to a boom today; the emerging markets may not stay the way they are. Although emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. In practice, private investors must be able to handle risks.