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Well-equipped hideaways for playing games and watching DVDs. When will the rest of the world get their private cinemas?
Car showroom by day, restaurant by night -- another example of smart multi-exploitation of commercial space, from Berlin to Sydney.
Japanese stores offer cheap-and-chic retail therapy for recession-sufferers.
Appealing to nostalgia, a retro-themed shopping mall in Tokyo draws in the silver-haired crowds.
Three ventures (from Finland , The Netherlands and Japan ) that are using the MMS platform to introduce innovative, photo-based consumer services in real estate, soap operas and teen phone blogs.
Expedia.com established a presence outside the virtual realm, by building 'wired' cafés in airports.
Private Joyce (lingerie and cosmetics) cleverly caters to Philippine women back home and abroad.
Upromise offers a successful programme that lets retailers and brands win loyalty by helping customers save for their children's college tuition.
Making the best possible use of valuable real estate in San Diego.
Bra straps, revealing skirts, hiphop jewelry and rap snacks: the latest crazes in Japan and the US.
'Native' Asian restaurant chains that may well make it big: cases and ideas from Hong Kong , Bangkok and The Philippines.
We weren't the only ones that liked Neighborhoodies' über-local hooded sweatshirts; they've done extremely well in the year and a half after we first featured them in the newsletter. And the idea still holds global promise!