Maria Korolov

Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality. She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs. Contact her at maria@korolov.com to pitch articles or to hire her as writer, editor, or speaker at your event.

Server Virtualization: Powerful Tool, Extra Exposure

Securities Industry News

Dividing a server into multiple virtual machines has brought down firms’ purchasing costs and allowed for more efficient use of existing hardware. However, virtualization also poses security risks and challenges, including managing a more complex network, additional layers of technology, potential data leaks as multiple virtual machines share common communication lines, and the threat of […]

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CA co to sell Beijing Games web ads

The Hollywood Reporter

SHANGHAI — A California company has been chosen to manage China Central Television’s online ads during video broadcasts of the Beijing Olympics on CCTV.com. ViDeOnline Communications will be the exclusive agent for the sale and distribution of video advertisements during CCTV.com’s online Olympic video broadcasts on its live and video-on-demand channels, company spokeswoman Ming Tian

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Co-pro ‘Milk & Fashion’ gets China distrib’n

The Hollywood Reporter

SHANGHAI — American-Chinese co-production “Milk and Fashion” will be distributed in China by Shanghai-based Red Art beginning in June, the film’s producer said Thursday. An American producer and a Taiwanese director made the coming-of-age drama with money from a Japanese medical supply company. The film cost just $1.35 million to make and producers believe it

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Riding the elephant

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I took some time away from work to see some elephants, as long as I was in Thailand. I was with Tim Phillips, editor of Petfood Industry magazine, and Julie Lezner Kirk, an expert on petfood safety and traceability, who also spoke at the conference. This is a picture of me riding an elephant. In

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Speaking in Bangkok

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Today I gave a talk about global and Asian petfood industry trends at a conference in Bangkok. One of our clients is Petfood Industry magazine, and we’ve been covering the melanine-laced petfood scandal since it broke last summer. If you forgot, hundreds of dogs and cats were killed or sickened by petfood made with wheat

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Shanda’s massive high score

The Hollywood Reporter

Gamer’s full-year revenue leaps 49% Chinese online game giant Shanda Interactive Entertainment reported record revenue Tuesday of $97.8 million for the final quarter of 2007. Revenue was up 52% year-over-year, with full-year 2007 revenue up 49% to $337.8 million. “We saw a strong contribution from expansion packs and newly commercialized games,” Shanda president Jun Tang

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Cultural wars: the parent trap

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Last Friday night, a bunch of us journalists slash bloggers slash entrepreneurs — and, in Shanghai, who isn’t these days? — were sitting around talking about cultural differences. We had a guy from a Chinese province who had moved to Shanghai, who was worried about taking care of his parents. A young guy who moved

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Culture versus economics

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As a business journalist, I’m a big believer in the power of economics. I’m also not a big fan of culture. Sure, it’s fine when it comes to entertainment, but I don’t trust culture as an explanation of behavior. Many habits which are routinely attributed to culture can be better explained by economics. Take, for

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Pre-trade Compliance: Better, Cheaper, Faster

Securities Industry News

Firms answer regulatory, investor demands with added controls and third-party systems At the heart of Societe Generale’s recent EUR4.82 billion ($7.01 billion) in losses from unauthorized trades is the fact that the accused trader–Jerome Kerviel–was able to use his knowledge of the system to get around the checks and balances. Kerviel, an equities trader, started

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The three stages of China consultants

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This weekend, a friend asked me to tell him all I knew about consultants in China — but to tell it quickly, since he didn’t have much time.My initial thought was to list all the consultants I knew. Management consultants. Business strategy consultants. Market entry consultants. Sourcing consultants. Quality consultants. Engineering consultants. Financial consultants. Human

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