Posts Tagged ‘Asia News’

Ford Motor Company’s Sales are UP!

Ford motor company’s sales are up 54%! And Ford has more than 11% of the market share since launching local production of its Ford Focus in 2002.
On an average day in 2005 one local car dea…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 24th, 2006 in Russia | No Comments

Silicon Valley – Brain Drain

I wrote in a previous post Golden Goose that
Stanford is feeling the pinch. Well now it seems Silicon Valley is feeling the pinch as well.
I read today that despite the economy reaching pre-Inter…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 24th, 2006 in China, India | No Comments

What Else Do Politicians Do?

In an earlier post, I wrote about Two Republicans and a Democrat
in China trying to put the squeeze on the big dragon.
"We are more optimistic than we were when we came here. We have seen that th…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 24th, 2006 in China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

Paperback Nintendo

Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata,says TETRIS Tetris wouldn’t make it…IF…it were pitched to today’s game publishers.
He says that the video-game industry has become too…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 24th, 2006 in All about Japan, Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments

Smaller is Best

I have a Japanese student who showed me is www.panasonic.com lap top. It weighed less than 3lbs and had a battery life of 6+ hours.
I carried my www.ibm.com  www.thinkpad.com . He looked at me a…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 23rd, 2006 in Japan | No Comments

Making Market Inroads – the Hard Way

They immersed themselves in Sunbelt America.
They hung out a NASCAR events and camped out at ranches in South Texas and Oklahoma.
They even went to RV camps and persuaded families to let them tavel al…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 23rd, 2006 in Japan | No Comments

China puts the Kabash on VoIP

This is bad news and good news and bad news…..
www.skype.com was my an my wife’s best friend. I mean, we used to spend $20-40/month (still cheap compared to $20/minute that I used to pay) …

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 23rd, 2006 in China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

KnowMoreMedia – Chinese Style

KnowMoreMedia.com might have to take on a different style were it to set up shop in China.
Apparently, in some countries, including China, blogging can lead to jail time.
Can we take our PCs with us? …

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 22nd, 2006 in China | No Comments

Nike is Running Away

Nike is running away….they made $326 million last quarter, up 19% from the previous quarter.
But they didn’t make it all here in the US. Sales were down here as were future orders.
They di…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 22nd, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Japan, Russia | No Comments

Two Republicans and a Democrat

What do you two Republicans and a Democrat have in common?
I wish I had a good punchline, but then this post would be in the wrong place.
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of SC and Tom Coburn of OK …

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 22nd, 2006 in China | No Comments