Larry Page’s new role model: Warren Buffett; Here’s how billionaire Mark Zuckerberg defines happiness: “To me, happiness is doing something meaningful that helps people and that I believe in with people I love.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 14 Jul (Tues)
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Life
- Here’s how billionaire Mark Zuckerberg defines happiness: “To me, happiness is doing something meaningful that helps people and that I believe in with people I love.”: BI
- Larry Page’s new role model: Warren Buffett: BI
- The CEO of a $2.8 billion startup says his favorite interview question is something we’ve all been answering since we were kids: BI
- What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Authors: Forbes
- Rihanna reveals the hidden rock ‘n’ roll world of accountants: FT
- How To Improve Your Writing: 5 Secrets From Hollywood: Barker
- Beyond Bias: Neuroscience research shows how new organizational practices can shift ingrained thinking. Strategy&
Investing Process
- Tiny signs of a coming scandal – and how to spot them; Cultural decay can be picked up at an early stage by insiders: FT
- What the Delay of FASB’s Revenue Recognition Standard Means: CFO
- Deep Due Diligence Needed in Emerging Markets Deals; CFOs need to be comfortable with the integrity of the financials, management, and employees of the target company in emerging markets deals.: CFO
- The Hows and Whys Behind Spinoffs; Such Deals Can Unlock Value for Investors, but They Offer Little Margin for Error: WSJ
- The New Supercompetitors: Companies that realize the power of their capabilities can shape how industries evolve: Strategy&
- Ex-Toshiba president Nishida comes under scrutiny in accounting fraud probe: JT
- Can corporate accounting ever be reformed?: Fortune
Greater China
- China’s Elusive Quest For ‘Values’: Forbes
- China ETF Switches Its Strategy After Stock Trading Halts: Bloomberg
- Stock market rout another blow to fading ‘Chinese Dream’: Reuters
- Xiaomi success inspires every man and his dog to make smartphones in China: Reuters
- Start Your Own Smartphone Company for $1,000 in China: Bloomberg
- So you’re a leveraged stock market investor with poor timing in China?: FT
- China’s A shares: contagion danger; The turmoil on China’s stock markets threatens to spread to the property sector: FT
- China Crackdown on Margin Lending Hits Peer-to-Peer Lenders; Margin lending scrutiny forces lenders from booming gray market: WSJ
- After Chinese Stock Plunge, a Hole Shows in Xi’s ‘China Dream’; Rally may have been last hurrah of credit-driven growth model: WSJ
- China Can ‘Never’ Have a Warren Buffett If Beijing Props Up Stocks, Property Mogul Says: WSJ
- Beijing’s Maneuvers Disenchant Global Investors; Some international fund managers say anti-plunge efforts have undermined market-reform plans: WSJ
- What Xi learned from his father: Nikkei
India
- Why India is no match for South Korea; Both countries were roughly the same size in 1990 (about $300 billion in GDP): Forbes
- No Exit for Investors as India Dithers on Stock Exchanges’ IPOs: Bloomberg
- Scams, unexplained demises and the Indian civil service; Two thousand people have been arrested in latest corruption scandal: FT
Japan & Korea
- ‘Blessing Or Curse’? Korea Faces Daunting Question: To Build Or Not To Build Its Own Jet Fighter: Forbes
- Small Shareholders Vent Samsung Frustrations, Side With Elliott: Bloomberg
- Mario Creator, Wii Designer in Spotlight at Nintendo After Iwata: Bloomberg
- Hedge Fund Creation Picks Japan Low-ROE Stocks in Snub to Trend: Bloomberg
- A Nearly 400-Year-Old Japanese Trading Company Asks: Who Am I?: Bloomberg
- Tesla’s next big frontier could be South Korea: BI
- Korean Zombie Companies Threaten Banks’ Books as Economy Slowing: Bloomberg
- Infamous shareholder activist Murakami who was convicted of insider trading in 2007 returns to fray in league with daughter: JT
ASEAN
- Penny stocks still languishing despite consolidation; Some two-thirds of the 37 mainboard companies shed value after meeting minimum trading price rule: BT
- Indonesia’s Property Market Seen Going Through Same Maturation Cycle as China’s: JG
Macro
- How Governments Lose Trillions Mismanaging Property: Bloomberg
- Junk-Bond ETFs Show Just How Desperate Traders Are for Liquidity: Bloomberg
- ‘Clawbacks’ Could Backfire; clawback is seen having the perverse consequence of driving up salaries further.: NYT
- Big Investors Are Holding the Highest Amount of Cash Since Lehman’s Collapse: Bloomberg
Healthcare
- Can an Infection Trigger OCD? Proposed link between infections and psychiatric disorders is still under review but gaining more recognition, resources among scientists: WSJ
- What it’s like to get a drugstore test from the startup that’s shaking up the medical industry; Imagine if you could go to a pharmacy, fill out a form, have your finger pricked, and one day later, get the results of a blood test.: BI
- UK’s new biomedical research centre teams up with industry: FT
- New Frontier for Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy Is Recovery From Stroke; Researchers testing the effects of DBS on the brains of rats hope to begin testing its effects in humans: WSJ
TMT
- The Real Threat Posed by Powerful Computers: Artificial Stupidity; Computer scientists say the real worry is a computer program that rapidly overdoes a single task, with no context: NYT
- The Untold Story of the Man Who Saved the Xbox From Oblivion. Twice: Bloomberg
- The wearable tech market could reach 385 million people and change how we ‘consume and use information’: BI
- Slack, the app that wants to be a digital spine for business: FT
- The Real Threat Posed by Powerful Computers: Artificial Stupidity; Computer scientists say the real worry is a computer program that rapidly overdoes a single task, with no context: NYT
- The Fall and Software Rebirth of Middlemen: Techcrunch
- Major players are bringing voice assistant tech to the fore: JT
- Helen Grenier, who created the Roomba and robots for industry and the military, is now building drones. They’ll become “like appliances-the next generation of video camera,” : Fortune
Consumer & Others
- Fantasy Sports Create Billion-Dollar Startups; FanDuel scores $275 million as daily fantasy sports market heats up: WSJ