-DDB’s global CCO Amir Kassaei will be establishing the network’s global creative hub in Shanghai.

-NBC Universal EVP, digital media sales Peter Naylor was appointed as the IAB’s chairman of the board of directors. link

-Digitas and CP+B’s “Small Business Saturday” effort for AmEx helped the agencies earn top honors at the inaugural Facebook Studio Awards. link

-Speaking of Facebook, the social network launched a new mobile web standards initiative. link

-Tokyo agency Party helped Intel turn a flash mob into a human billboard to promote the latter’s Ultrabook laptops (above). link