Archive for the ‘Asia’ Category

Chinese President Visited Microsoft

My wife cracked me up last night.
As I mentioned in my introduction way back when, isn’t one month on the web similar to dog years or something like that?…anyway, my wife is "made in …

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 20th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

Introducing Chinese Cars – BYD

BYD AUTO is the next Chinese car maker.
  

 

 BYD auto is a subsidiary of BYD Co. Ltd, which sits in the top 100 in the Chinese electronic industry, the top 100…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 19th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

Yuan-Kang Wang of Brookings Institution

Dr. Yuan-Kang Wang of Brookings Institution recently spoke on a panel at UC San Francisco.
Dr. Wang emphasized the need to keep a balance of power between China and the US and to maintain a …

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 18th, 2006 in Asia, China, Japan | No Comments

The Oldest Company in the World – Japan

The oldest company in the world that has been continuously owned by the same family can be found in Japan.
The name is Kongo Gumi. And it is now run by the 40th generation of the same family.
It is a …

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 18th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

Google Plans to do Business in Russia

Google plans to do business in Russia.
Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin is from Moscow. It only seems natural that he would go back to his birthplace and show his old classmates what he has done…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 16th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

Technorati Claim

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 14th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

Yahoo Teams Ups With SK Telecom

Yahoo has decided to team up with South Korean cellular provider SK Telecom to provide search service for cell phones.
The name of the service is HELIO and it will allow people to search from the…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 14th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

Paypal in Space – SpaceX

From the sale of Paypal, Elon Musk made around $200 million. And he was still 32 years old. I think it might take me 32 years just to count to 200 million.
So, what do you do with all that money?
Well…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 13th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

GM Cries Retreat!

GM is backing out of its interest in Japan’s ISUZU.
Money short GM is selling its shares of the Japanese truck maker, Isuzu.
The buyers are two Japanese trading companies and a bank.
The price…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 13th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

Wonhyuk Lim – Brookings Institution

Dr. Wonhyuk Lim of the Brookings Institution recently spoke on a panel at UC San Francisco about doing business in China, Korea and NorthEast Asia.
Dr. Kim mentioned something I found very i…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 12th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments