Posts Tagged ‘ chinese ’

Chinese youth clamor to join Foxconn’s iPhone 5 assembly line (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - The working conditions at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn are notorious here in the U.S., but do Chinese youth have a different opinion of the embattled electronics giant? Possibly: Foxconn is hiring, and Chinese youth are literally lining up around the block to …

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RedPad: Android tablet for Chinese politicians that costs twice as much as the iPad (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Would you buy a $1,600 Android tablet that doesn't have any special features compared to other slates half its price? A relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer seems to think people would, and released a tablet called the RedPad — a Honeycomb device specifically …

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Creepy Steve Jobs action figure gets canceled after all (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - From the time Chinese company In Icons announced its alarmingly realistic Steve Jobs doll, we knew it was a lawsuit waiting to happen. The inevitable threats of legal action claiming violation against a law called Right of Publicity began a few days later. …

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Alibaba hires U.S. lobbying firm as it eyes Yahoo (Reuters)

Reuters - Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail.

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With A Crisp $10M In His Pockets, ‘Founder’s Den’ Founder Launches Security App ‘AirCover’

With A Crisp $10M In His Pockets, ‘Founder’s Den’ Founder Launches Security App ‘AirCover’

On his second startup out of his incubator  Founder’s Den , serial entrepreneur Jason Johnson is launching the first app out of his new utility app startup BlueSprig . An app for app lovers — and those suffering from app fatigue — AirCover is a security service for both iOS and Android that...

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