World Business Briefing: Switzerland: Watchmakers Seek Stricter Content Rules
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Switzerlandâs main watchmaking group urged the government to tighten the rules on what can be called a Swiss watch to stop timepieces with too many foreign parts from reaching the market. Under a proposal by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, at least 80 percent of a mechanical watch or 60 percent of an electronic one would have to be made in Switzerland for it to be called âSwiss made,â the group said. The proposal, approved by 87 percent of the federationâs members, will be sent to the government for consideration. The existing ordinance says at least 50 percent must be Swiss made.
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The Swiss tax system is attracting businesses and celebrities, much to the irritation of its EU neighbours.
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Foreign journalists are facing official interference while reporting in China, despite Olympic-related rules aimed at allowing greater press freedoms, an international media group said Tuesday.
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We have some big news today for FlickrFan users, a major new source of high-def photography for the networked living room. They come from Agence France-Presse, one of the world's great news organizations, and a fantastic source of high-resolution news photography. I met with Agence France-Presse when I was in Paris in December, introduced them to FlickrFan and explained what we were doing with the Associated Press. They got excited, it took a little while to work out the technical details, but now we're ready to go. The updates are all out, here's the howto for FlickrFan users. Change #30: Agence France-Presse photos in FlickrFan. There were unique challenges in this project because their flow is huge. Yesterday we got over 3000 new photos. Because there are so many, I asked my friend Matt Mullenweg, if his company Automattic could help us out with server space and bandwidth, and he said yes. The AFP pictures are hosted on wordpress.com. Many thanks to Matt and his company for helping us out. To the extent we're bootstrapping a new use of the net, which I hope is what we're doing, Matt's company has made the kind of contribution we'd like to see more companies make. Usually the companies are happy to make the money, but not willing to help out with the bootstrap, which often costs money. Matt has always been a great guy and a visionary. I thank him and hope that FlickrFan users find an appropriate way to thank him too. And also, please consider the generosity of Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. We all hope that there's a market here, a way to monetize the flow of high-resolution photography to enrich and inform. Other content companies have been reluctant to take a chance on the Internet, we saw that in the early days of RSS and podcasting. I feel that these two media companies are playing the same pioneering role that the New York Times played with RSS 2.0 and NPR played in podcasting. Associated Press and Agence France-Presse deserve our respect and admiration for steping out, for going first, this is how new Internet activities get going. This is what we call market leadership, the real kind. Bravo!! And this couldn't come at a better time, with tomorrow being Super Tuesday here in the USA. Think of all the great photographs we're going to get in the next few days! Kevin Tofel helped test the feed over the weekend.
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China will take a new step Thursday to tighten control of the Internet when rules go into force limiting online video-sharing to state companies. But regulators, wary of hurting a fast-growing industry, are expected to let private operators work around the restrictions.
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By Nolan, Hamilton  ANALYSIS  EVERY SO OFTEN, the FCC considers revising its ownership rules for media entities.
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A Swiss banker declares neutrality on media -- except for Disney.
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Middle Eastern bloggers tackling everything from human rights to Islam are making it harder for governments to keep their monopoly on the media. By the Associated Press.
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On its Web site, Sinclair Broadcasting Group publishes a &quot;Code of Business Conduct and Ethics&quot; which purports to the be the &quot;source of guiding principles for directors and their employees.
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China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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Business & money: Swiss bank suspends 'handful' of traders suspected of overvaluing asset-backed securities
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The media conglomerate puts some magazine titles on the block.
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The French government is calling for tighter risk-control measures and a broad review of bank rules in response to losses from the trading scandal at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
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This week's stock market  slide provides a stark storm warning for global business  leaders and policymakers meeting in Switzerland, as pleas for  some form of coordinated policy response rise.
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Stricter legislation Flickr's introduction of content filters in Germany last week has provoked protests in blogs and web forums globally.â¦
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After decades of dictating what  British viewers watch, broadcasters must adapt to the  democratic values of the Internet or die, leading media  executives said on Friday.