Toys R Us bankruptcy auction cancelled, retailer will live on as branding firm
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-10-03-toys-r-us-bankruptcy-auction-cancelled-retailer-will-live-
Lenders hope new company will maintain licensing agreements and eventually invest in new retail stores
Xbox Live Rewards will transition to Microsoft Rewards in June
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-02-xbox-live-rewards-will-transition-to-microsoft-rewards-in-
Xbox owners will be rewarded for Bing searches and shopping at Microsoft retail stores
Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores | TechCrunch
▻https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/21/apple-launches-coding-camps-for-kids-in-its-retail-stores
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Apple this summer is expanding its lineup of Apple Camp sessions to include a new course that teaches children the basics of coding. Aimed at children ages 8 through 12, the new 3-day session will use software from Tynker to introduce concepts of block-based coding and will allow kids to program Sphero robots. These classes will be small – capped at around a dozen attendees – and are opening to registration this morning alongside others in Apple’s ongoing summer camp series.
Internet of Things security is so bad, there’s a search engine for sleeping kids | Ars Technica
▻http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/how-to-search-the-internet-of-things-for-photos-of-sleeping-babies
Flippant!
“Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently launched a new section that lets users easily browse vulnerable webcams.
The feed includes images of marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash register cameras in retail stores, according to Dan Tentler, a security researcher who has spent several years investigating webcam security.”
What’s Ikea for? Cultural Differences in Appropriate Behavior
▻http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/27/whats-ikea-for-cultural-differences-in-appropriate-behavior
Sociologist Sangyoub Park forwarded us a fascinating account of Ikea’s business model… for China. In the U.S., there are rather strict rules about what one can do in a retail store. Primarily, one is supposed to shop, shop the whole time, and leave once one’s done shopping. Special parts of the store might be designated for other activities, like eating or entertaining kids, but the main floors are activity-restricted.
Not in China. Ikea has become a popular place to hang out. People go there to read their morning newspaper, socialize with friends, snuggle with a loved one, or take a nap. Older adults have turned it into a haunt for singles looking for love. Some even see it as a great place for a wedding.
#chine #ikea #urbain #magasins #culture_de_masse
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#Apple et la #Chine - Tim Cook on Apple earnings and more | Macworld
▻http://www.macworld.com/article/2026141/in-his-own-words-tim-cook-on-apple-earnings-and-more.html
If you look at our total Greater China, which would include our retail stores in China, our revenues were $7.3 billion in the quarter. So this is incredibly high, it’s up over 60 percent year-on-year, and again that’s comparing 13 to 14 weeks, and so it’s really, the underlying growth is higher than that.
We saw exceptional growth in #iPhones, into the triple digits. We shipped #iPad very late in the quarter in December, and despite that, saw very nice growth. We are expanding in Apple retail there: In the year-ago quarter, we had six stores; we now we have 11. We obviously have many more to open there. In our premium resellers, we went over 400, up from a little over 200 in the previous year. And we increased iPhone point-of-sales from 7000 to over 17,000 there.
Now, this isn’t nearly what we need, and it’s not the final by any means, we’re not even close to that, but I feel that we’re making great progress. I was just over there recently and talking to a lot of different people, and I’m very happy with how things are going. It’s clear that China is, it’s already our second-largest region as you can see from the data that we’ve given you, and it’s clear that there’s a lot of potential there.