Jess Lee Creates Truly Interactive Fashion Shopping
Jess Lee's Polyvore gives online fashionistas a digital playpen in which to mix-and-match ensembles before buying.
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Dell, Baidu Tie Up to Launch Tablets, Phones in China
U.S. PC giant Dell hopes to gain an edge in China by launching tablet PCs and mobile phones using Baidu Yi.
Japan Rice Prices Jump on Radiation Rumors
Fears that rice from the disaster-struck Tohoku region will turn out to have unsafe levels of radiation have sent up trading prices about 10 percent ...
Toyota to Turn Camry into Hybrid
>The strong yen is forcing Toyota to stop exporting Camrys to North America just as it unveils an all-new hybrid version.
Jing Wong Heads Up Qualcomm's Global Business
UVA Law-grad Jing Wang now leads all regions of Qualcomm's global business operations.
Paul Jung's Bodhi Electric Bikes Offer CVP Technology
If there's a Mercedes-Benz of bicycles, it would be the ones Paul Jung's Bodhi Bikes makes.
U.S. Solar Failures Give China Dominant Share
Government subsidies and the failures of several U.S. solar power companies make China the dominant solar-panel producer.
Toyota May Face Major Recall in China
Toyota's declining market share in China may be further eroded by the possibility of a major recall.
China Spreads Prosperity with Western Boomtowns
China's go-west strategy is erasing the glaring economic disparity between the prosperous coastal regions and the vast western inland regions.
iPad Popularity Revives Shenzhen PC Makers
Shenzhen's PC manufacturers enjoy an unexpected boom thanks to the demand for “white box” tablet PCs.
Hong Kong Has 3 of World's 10 Priciest Streets
Hong Kong's Causeway Bay trails only Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in a list of the world's most expensive shopping boulevards.
Chinese Money Behind $1.2 Bil. Offer for Dodgers
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has received a $1.2 billion offer for the Dodgers funded by China's state-owned investment firms.
Kai-Fu Lee Raises $180 Mil. for China Tech Incubator
Former search-engine wizard Kai-Fu Lee has raised $180 million more in venture capital for his China startup incubator.
BYD Plans Massive Layoffs As Auto Sales Plunge
The Chinese battery-maker picked by Warren Buffet to become a giant of the global electric-car market is shrinking its workforce as sales plunge.
China's Rare Earth Dealers Hurt by Price Plunge
A sudden price plunge has caught China's rare earth dealers holding big inventories bought at high prices.
David Wang Creates Personal Activity Logger
David Wang wants to motivate the average person to achieve fitness goals by staying active in the real world.
Ex-China Mobile Chairman Gets Death Sentence
A former China Mobile executive who had confessed to accepting $2.6 million in bribes was given a death sentence on Tuesday.
McDonald's Tries New Approach for China Success
McDonald's China is loosening up its ownership structure and moving its stores upmarket to maintain growth in a rapidly changing market.
Samsung Pushes Own Bada OS with Wave Smartphones
Samsung powers up its software ambitions with three new smartphones running its proprietary OS.
Japan Sells Gold While Other Nations Buy
Japan is the only major economy where more gold is being sold than bought.
U.S. Is S. Korea's Top Arms Buyer
The United States bought $1.8 billion worth of arms from S. Korea over the past five years, becoming its biggest client.
LEDs Enjoy Boom in Japan Following Quake
The push for energy efficiency has accelerated the adoption of LED lights in Japan.
China Auto Exports Boom As Domestic Demand Slows
China's auto exports jumped 57% for the first seven months of 2011 over the same period last year to a total of 465,000 units.
S. Korea Is Top Asian Importer of U.S. Cheese
S. Korea imports more U.S. cheese than any nation except Mexico as its cheese consumption doubled between 2006 and 2010.
China Firm to Install 2,000 Gold-Dispending ATMs
Gongmei Gold Trading plans to install 2,000 ATMs to dispense gold coins and bullions over the next two years.
Aviation Ties Seen Boosting U.S., China Economies
Civil aviation is the industry that can create the greatest mutual economic benefit for the U.S. and China.
Chinese Loses Competitive Edge in Apparel, Shoes
The apparel and footwear industries, once China's manufacturing mainstays, are rapidly shifting to lower-wage nations.
Shinji Nishimoto Uses MRI to See Through Other Eyes
Neuroscientist Shinji Nishimoto has used MRI brain scans to visualize what a subject is seeing.
Yachtmakers See Huge Potential in China
Global yachtmakers are angling to get into China's nascent yacht market to tap the potentially huge demand represented by its 875,000 millionaires.
Great Wall Leaps Past Slowing China Car-Market Growth
China's homegrown Great Wall Motors saw net profits soar 109 percent in the first half of the year on a 37 percent sales jump during ...
S. Korea Top Spender on Men's Skincare Products
No nation comes close to S. Korea in spending on men's skincare products.
HTC Named Taiwan's Top Global Brand
HTC tops the Taiwan Global Brands 2011 list having the highest brand value.
McDonald's Japan to Close Hundreds More Stores
Hundreds of McDonald's restaurants will be closed next year to boost profit margins due to a decline in demand for fast food.
Phillip Chang Takes Yogurtland Global
Phillip Chang is going international with the self-serve frozen yogurt concept he pioneered in 2006.
Superfast 4G LTE Handsets Roll Out in S. Korea
New smartphones being released in S. Korea take full advantage of LTE 4G's blazing data transmission speeds.
Anirban Banyopadhyay Unveils Molecular Parallel Processor
Anirban Banyopadhyay has assembled 300 organic molecules into a massively parallel nanoscale computing device.
Daihatsu Tops Fuel Efficiency with 71 MPG Car
Daihatsu has proclaimed its new Mira e:S the world's most fuel efficient non-hybrid gasoline car.
China's 2011 Growth Rate Pegged at 9.5%
Continuing vigorous investments will keep China's economic growth the world's highest, says the IMF.
Korean Dramas Help Japanese TV's Bottom Line
Low-cost imported Korean TV dramas help Japan's TV networks cope with shrinking advertising revenues.
China Pork Consumption Drives World Prices
China's surging appetite for pork is driving up the price of grain and pigs around the world.
Brian Wong Gets $4.3 Mil. for Kiip
Brian Wong's Kiip ad network lets advertisers reward gamers for virtual triumphs.
China's Auto Growth Shifts to Full-Size Cars
Falling prices and rising living standards have made larger models the hottest segment of China's car market.
Hong Kong Jobless Rate at 13-Year Low
A sustained export boom has powered record employment for Hong Kong, bringing down its jobless rate to a better-than-forecast 3.2 percent.
Yao Zhao Shows Energy-Efficient Nanotube Cable
Yao Zhao shows that ultra-light carbon-nanotube cables can carry as much electricity as copper wires.
Severe Pilot Shortage to Hit Asia-Pacific Air Travel
A shortage of pilots and technicians may become the limiting factor in the growth of Asia-Pacific's booming air travel industry.
China Debuts Homegrown Ultra-Light Helicopter
The first ultra-light helicopter manufactured in China was unveiled Thursday at the China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin.
SUVs Catch On with China's Middle Class
China's affluent new middle class has made SUVs the fastest growing segment of the auto market.
Google Returns to China with Group-Buying Site
Google has apparently decided to return to the China market by launching a group deal aggregator in China Thursday.
80% of Honey Sold in China Suspected Fake
Most of the honey sold in China is nothing more than cane sugar syrup, according to an expert quoted by Beijing Business Today.
Kevin Chou Builds Social Gaming Kingdom
Kevin Chou is on track to build Kabam into an online social gaming empire.
Jess Lee Creates Truly Interactive Fashion Shopping
Jess Lee's Polyvore gives online fashionistas a digital playpen in which to mix-and-match ensembles before buying.
Dell, Baidu Tie Up to Launch Tablets, Phones in China
U.S. PC giant Dell hopes to gain an edge in China by launching tablet PCs and mobile phones using Baidu Yi.
Japan Rice Prices Jump on Radiation Rumors
Fears that rice from the disaster-struck Tohoku region will turn out to have unsafe levels of radiation have sent up trading prices about 10 percent ...
Toyota to Turn Camry into Hybrid
>The strong yen is forcing Toyota to stop exporting Camrys to North America just as it unveils an all-new hybrid version.
Jing Wong Heads Up Qualcomm's Global Business
UVA Law-grad Jing Wang now leads all regions of Qualcomm's global business operations.
Paul Jung's Bodhi Electric Bikes Offer CVP Technology
If there's a Mercedes-Benz of bicycles, it would be the ones Paul Jung's Bodhi Bikes makes.
U.S. Solar Failures Give China Dominant Share
Government subsidies and the failures of several U.S. solar power companies make China the dominant solar-panel producer.
Toyota May Face Major Recall in China
Toyota's declining market share in China may be further eroded by the possibility of a major recall.
China Spreads Prosperity with Western Boomtowns
China's go-west strategy is erasing the glaring economic disparity between the prosperous coastal regions and the vast western inland regions.
iPad Popularity Revives Shenzhen PC Makers
Shenzhen's PC manufacturers enjoy an unexpected boom thanks to the demand for “white box” tablet PCs.
Hong Kong Has 3 of World's 10 Priciest Streets
Hong Kong's Causeway Bay trails only Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in a list of the world's most expensive shopping boulevards.
Chinese Money Behind $1.2 Bil. Offer for Dodgers
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has received a $1.2 billion offer for the Dodgers funded by China's state-owned investment firms.
Kai-Fu Lee Raises $180 Mil. for China Tech Incubator
Former search-engine wizard Kai-Fu Lee has raised $180 million more in venture capital for his China startup incubator.
BYD Plans Massive Layoffs As Auto Sales Plunge
The Chinese battery-maker picked by Warren Buffet to become a giant of the global electric-car market is shrinking its workforce as sales plunge.
China's Rare Earth Dealers Hurt by Price Plunge
A sudden price plunge has caught China's rare earth dealers holding big inventories bought at high prices.
David Wang Creates Personal Activity Logger
David Wang wants to motivate the average person to achieve fitness goals by staying active in the real world.
Ex-China Mobile Chairman Gets Death Sentence
A former China Mobile executive who had confessed to accepting $2.6 million in bribes was given a death sentence on Tuesday.
McDonald's Tries New Approach for China Success
McDonald's China is loosening up its ownership structure and moving its stores upmarket to maintain growth in a rapidly changing market.
Samsung Pushes Own Bada OS with Wave Smartphones
Samsung powers up its software ambitions with three new smartphones running its proprietary OS.
Japan Sells Gold While Other Nations Buy
Japan is the only major economy where more gold is being sold than bought.
U.S. Is S. Korea's Top Arms Buyer
The United States bought $1.8 billion worth of arms from S. Korea over the past five years, becoming its biggest client.
LEDs Enjoy Boom in Japan Following Quake
The push for energy efficiency has accelerated the adoption of LED lights in Japan.
China Auto Exports Boom As Domestic Demand Slows
China's auto exports jumped 57% for the first seven months of 2011 over the same period last year to a total of 465,000 units.
S. Korea Is Top Asian Importer of U.S. Cheese
S. Korea imports more U.S. cheese than any nation except Mexico as its cheese consumption doubled between 2006 and 2010.
China Firm to Install 2,000 Gold-Dispending ATMs
Gongmei Gold Trading plans to install 2,000 ATMs to dispense gold coins and bullions over the next two years.
Aviation Ties Seen Boosting U.S., China Economies
Civil aviation is the industry that can create the greatest mutual economic benefit for the U.S. and China.
Chinese Loses Competitive Edge in Apparel, Shoes
The apparel and footwear industries, once China's manufacturing mainstays, are rapidly shifting to lower-wage nations.
Shinji Nishimoto Uses MRI to See Through Other Eyes
Neuroscientist Shinji Nishimoto has used MRI brain scans to visualize what a subject is seeing.
Yachtmakers See Huge Potential in China
Global yachtmakers are angling to get into China's nascent yacht market to tap the potentially huge demand represented by its 875,000 millionaires.
Great Wall Leaps Past Slowing China Car-Market Growth
China's homegrown Great Wall Motors saw net profits soar 109 percent in the first half of the year on a 37 percent sales jump during ...
S. Korea Top Spender on Men's Skincare Products
No nation comes close to S. Korea in spending on men's skincare products.
HTC Named Taiwan's Top Global Brand
HTC tops the Taiwan Global Brands 2011 list having the highest brand value.
McDonald's Japan to Close Hundreds More Stores
Hundreds of McDonald's restaurants will be closed next year to boost profit margins due to a decline in demand for fast food.
Phillip Chang Takes Yogurtland Global
Phillip Chang is going international with the self-serve frozen yogurt concept he pioneered in 2006.
Superfast 4G LTE Handsets Roll Out in S. Korea
New smartphones being released in S. Korea take full advantage of LTE 4G's blazing data transmission speeds.
Anirban Banyopadhyay Unveils Molecular Parallel Processor
Anirban Banyopadhyay has assembled 300 organic molecules into a massively parallel nanoscale computing device.
Daihatsu Tops Fuel Efficiency with 71 MPG Car
Daihatsu has proclaimed its new Mira e:S the world's most fuel efficient non-hybrid gasoline car.
China's 2011 Growth Rate Pegged at 9.5%
Continuing vigorous investments will keep China's economic growth the world's highest, says the IMF.
Korean Dramas Help Japanese TV's Bottom Line
Low-cost imported Korean TV dramas help Japan's TV networks cope with shrinking advertising revenues.
China Pork Consumption Drives World Prices
China's surging appetite for pork is driving up the price of grain and pigs around the world.
Brian Wong Gets $4.3 Mil. for Kiip
Brian Wong's Kiip ad network lets advertisers reward gamers for virtual triumphs.
China's Auto Growth Shifts to Full-Size Cars
Falling prices and rising living standards have made larger models the hottest segment of China's car market.
Hong Kong Jobless Rate at 13-Year Low
A sustained export boom has powered record employment for Hong Kong, bringing down its jobless rate to a better-than-forecast 3.2 percent.
Yao Zhao Shows Energy-Efficient Nanotube Cable
Yao Zhao shows that ultra-light carbon-nanotube cables can carry as much electricity as copper wires.
Severe Pilot Shortage to Hit Asia-Pacific Air Travel
A shortage of pilots and technicians may become the limiting factor in the growth of Asia-Pacific's booming air travel industry.
China Debuts Homegrown Ultra-Light Helicopter
The first ultra-light helicopter manufactured in China was unveiled Thursday at the China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin.
SUVs Catch On with China's Middle Class
China's affluent new middle class has made SUVs the fastest growing segment of the auto market.
Google Returns to China with Group-Buying Site
Google has apparently decided to return to the China market by launching a group deal aggregator in China Thursday.
80% of Honey Sold in China Suspected Fake
Most of the honey sold in China is nothing more than cane sugar syrup, according to an expert quoted by Beijing Business Today.
Kevin Chou Builds Social Gaming Kingdom
Kevin Chou is on track to build Kabam into an online social gaming empire.
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