The Benefits Of Being A Total Zero; How a 60-year-old woman turned her $35 domain name into a $1.5 billion business – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 18 Jul (Sat)

Life

• The Benefits Of Being A Total Zero: Techcrunch
• How a 60-year-old woman turned her $35 domain name into a $1.5 billion business: BI
• 5 Ways To Use Life’s Challenges To Make You Better, Not Bitter: Forbes
• Capitalism: Morality and the money motive; Growth’s guilty secret: the capitalist system is able to lift people out of poverty but struggles to create a just society: FT
• Angela Merkel’s incredible rise from quantum chemist to the world’s most powerful woman: BI
• From Gladiators to Mickey Mouse: Disneyland Turns 60: WSJ
• This guy came up with a brilliant way make his résumé stand out and heard back from 8 companies in a month: BI
• Heineken CEO explains the counterintuitive strategy that helped him become one of the company’s youngest leaders: BI

Investing Process

• Deloitte Anjin is drawing criticism over lax supervision of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), which allegedly committed accounting fraud by hiding billions of dollars in losses. KT
• China LNG shares dive after research report says stock ‘wildly overvalued’; “They have no business. All they have are something like 12 memoranda. It’s basically a paper company. They just use their money to pump up the stock. They pump and dump: SCMP
• Hanergy Tests Hong Kong’s Power to Protect Investors; At issue is SFC’s request for documents related to Hanergy’s Beijing-based parent company: WSJ
• Regulators to seek penalty on Toshiba for false accounting: Star
• Investors Follow Their Conscience; Some advocates argue that ‘socially responsible investing’ can help boost a portfolio: WSJ

Greater China

• China banks lent $209bn for stock rescue; Scale of official support casts doubt on equities rebound: FT
• How China Is Hiding Its “Hard Landing”: Zerohedge
• Despite Beijing’s Big Push, Investors Remain Wary; Extraordinary measures halt plunge, but benchmark index remains 500 points below target: WSJ
• Foreign investors seek reform of China stock suspensions: Reuters
• Why Can’t China Make a Movie Like ‘Baahubali’?: Forbes
• The Netflix of China? Alibaba buys US$382 million stake in film and TV production company: SCMP
•  The games that got the Chinese share market rolling off the cliff: SCMP
• China’s biggest state banks recruited into stock market rescue: FT
• China ended years of speculation about its official gold holdings by revealing an almost 60 percent jump in its reserves since 2009 to 1,658 tonnes worth $60.9 billion, which makes up 1.6 per cent of its total foreign exchange holdings: CNBC
• Q&A: China’s market tumult: FT

Japan & Korea

• Top court again suspends imprisonment of CJ head for hospital treatment: KH
• As dust settles, skeptical market awaits the synergies; Cheil and C&T merger will give Samsung a new corporate look: JA
• Lotte succession almost done, but not over yet: KT
• South Korean shipbuilders shaken by loss fears: FT
•  Samsung Heir Apparent Has No Time for Victory Lap; Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong prevails in shareholder vote on merger, but faces formidable tasks: WSJ

ASEAN

• Singapore’s biggest danger: complacency: BT

Macro

• S&P warns China and US pose credit risk: FT
• SEC Denying More No-Action Requests; No-action letters are the SEC’s informal view on whether a company has just cause to exclude a shareholder proposal from its proxy: WSJ

Energy & Commodities

• Coal Miners Struggle to Survive in an Industry Battered by Layoffs and Bankruptcy: NYT

Healthcare

• Researchers discover a way to deliver drugs to the brain using a remote control: BI

TMT

• At Zappos, Pushing Shoes and a Vision: NYT
• Google spelled out how YouTube is destroying TV: BI
• Uber, not Tesla, will be Apple’s competition in the automobile industry: BI
• Microsoft’s new web browser is up to 112% faster than Google Chrome: BI
• Blockbuster’s CEO once passed up a chance to buy Netflix for only $50 million: BI
• The secret to Etsy’s explosive stock growth is something Google and Facebook have been begging app developers to start doing: The process is known as “deep linking,” and only a few thousand of the millions of apps in existence currently : BI
• Mobile technology widens its reach in Africa: FT
• Yahoo Warns Alibaba Spin Off May Have Tax Issues; New public company will be called Aabaco; Completing the spinoff is important for CEO Marissa Mayer who has failed to show meaningful growth in the company’s core ad business: WSJ, FT
• Drone Startups Take Flight in Asia; Entrepreneurs are providing services that appeal to local markets in new ways: WSJ

Consumer & Others

• Science explains why lobster is so incredibly expensive: BI