Football and social media - by Simon Kuper

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7593cd8c-7041-11e4-bc6a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3JmY8V1Tg



The world’s major clubs are fixated on using social media to turn the love of millions of fans into serious money

The Russian economy

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21633816-more-decade-oil-income-and-consumer-spending-have-delivered-growth-vladimir-putins

The most memorable brand wins and fails of 2014

http://mashable.com/2014/11/18/brand-wins-fails-2014/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-socmed-link

Is YouTube the new television?

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/3591cb26-6abf-11e4-a038-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3J8q5Nenj

Twitter’s future - How high can it fly?

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21631045-all-its-success-so-far-social-media-firm-may-not-achieve-scale-many-investors-hope

Russian media firms - Interesting news

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21631057-clampdown-foreign-owned-media-opportunity-some-oligarchs-interesting-news

It is not just news outlets that are threatened by the media law. Foreign publishers of glossy magazines, such as Hearst and Condé Nast, will also have to shut them or sell to a local buyer at depressed prices. This amounts to a “blatant appropriation of property,” according to Derk Sauer, a Dutch investor who founded Vedomosti in 1999. Of course, Mr Putin will be able to point out that many countries, America included, restrict foreign ownership of some media. But in a sign of how rushed and emotive the passage of the law was, it will undo an investment the Russian leader celebrated with great fanfare not long ago: in 2011 Disney spent $300 million on a 49% stake in a Russian television channel, a deal that will now have to be undone.