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1:29pm From:  Three useful graphs about China’s expanding car ardor. First, monthly demand has doubled since January 2009 … 
… and the per capita ownership of cars in China is 1/20th that of Europe, or 1/40th that of the U.S. … 
… while the growth in China’s auto penetration rate isn’t really that high (yet), compared to neighbors like Korea.  [via J.P. Morgan]
Friday July 30, 2010
7:32pm From:  Chipotle Mexican Grill ( CMG) has been serving up big burritos and strong growth for years. It aims to keep on growing through new initiatives like an expansion into Europe and smaller, less costly "A Model" sites in the U.S. The Colorado-based company has opened an eatery in London and expects to unveil one in France next year. Overall, it now has more than 1,000 restaurants, reporting 1,001 as of the second quarter's end. "We believe the 
6:34pm From:  
Today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, CA, James Lamberti, VP of Global Research and Marketing for InMobi, sat down with our Michael Arrington to tell us a bit about mobile advertising.
InMobi is the largest independent mobile ad network in the world. Overall, they’re number two behind Google’s AdMob. That earned them an $8 million investment from Kleiner Perkins and Sherpalo Ventures a couple weeks ago. But what’s particularly interesting about InMobi is how well they’re doing outside the U.S.
Out of inMobi’s 16.9 billion mobile ad impressions globally, 2.6 billion are in Africa, more than the US’s 2 billion. 10 billion are in Asia, no surprise considering.....
6:06pm From:   Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA submits: Investors are understandably scared of the sovereign debt crisis unfolding in Europe. Amid their angst, however, they are ignoring a more likely, and significantly larger, debt catastrophe that is about to hit the nation with the second-largest economy in the world — Japan. Two decades of stimulative, low-interest-rate fiscal policy have made Japan the most indebted nation in the developed world, and as new Prime Minister Naoto Kan recently said, in his first address to Parliament, that situation is not sustainable. Japan has little choice but to raise interest rates substantially, with dire consequences far beyond its shores. The prelude to the current crisis began in the early 1990s, after Japan’s housing and stock market
11:35am HK consortium offers US$9b for British power networkPARIS: A consortium led by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing has made a US$9 billion (US$1 = RM3.19) "irrevocable" offer to take over the British power distribution network of French electricity giant EDF, the French company said yesterday.
If completed, the deal would be the biggest by a Hong Kong entity in Britain.
EDF Energy, the largest electricity supplier in Britain, is owned by EDF, the state-controlled French giant which said in October it had put its three distribution grids up for sale as it tries to reduce debt. EDF group is Europe's biggest electricity producer.
The Hong Kong consortium beat rival offers from a British energy firm and Canadian-Australian-Abu Dhabi consortium, a source close to the deal was quoted as saying by the Dow Jones news wire.
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