tag:www.businessweek.com,2010-03-09:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23 2011-03-28T07:25:59Z Read "Eye on Asia" Asian business blog. Get the latest Asian business news, Asian politics updates and read about the hottest Asian technology news. Movable Type 4.37 tag:www.businessweek.com,2011:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.30778 2011-03-25T08:04:20Z 2011-03-28T07:25:59Z

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2011:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.30748 2011-03-17T15:39:08Z 2011-03-17T15:44:20Z

In the global technology industry's pecking order, Japanese consumer electronics companies long ago surrendered their top spot to more nimble competitors like Samsung Electronics and Apple. Many of the country's chipmakers also struggled as competitors in Korea and Taiwan thrived....

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2011:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.30720 2011-03-11T14:48:49Z 2011-03-11T14:53:07Z

By Dexter Roberts Amongst the flood of economic statistics released this week by Beijing, the trade numbers certainly were some of the most notable. With imports up 19.4% and exports up just 2.4%, the least since 2009, China registered a...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2011:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.30208 2011-03-03T12:38:26Z 2011-03-03T13:02:07Z

By Bruce Einhorn Following my post the other day about the difficulties at Alibaba, company spokesman John Spelich contacted me to point out a few things. First of all, he says Alibaba is not considering an IPO for Taobao, its...

Andy Reinhardt tag:www.businessweek.com,2011:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.30195 2011-03-01T13:52:32Z 2011-03-01T14:39:57Z

By Bruce Einhorn As if Chinese Internet company Alibaba.com didn't already have enough problems, the U.S. government has delivered another blow to chairman Jack Ma's group. The U.S. Trade Representative today put Taobao, the Alibaba-owned company that is China's largest...

Justin Bachman tag:www.businessweek.com,2011:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.30175 2011-02-23T12:24:59Z 2011-02-23T12:56:15Z

Tuesday started out as a great day for New Zealand's economy. Fonterra, the giant cooperative that dominates country's dairy industry, announced that a 10.5 percent increase in its forecast payout to farmers to NZ$7.50. That's higher than expected and is...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2011:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.30160 2011-02-17T18:50:15Z 2011-02-17T19:13:34Z

By Bruce Einhorn I've always been skeptical about Lenovo, the Chinese computer company. In 2005 it bought the PC division of IBM, a purchase that immediately made Lenovo a worldwide rival to Hewlett-Packard and Dell. But then Lenovo struggled. As...

Dan Beucke tag:www.businessweek.com,2010:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.29591 2010-10-11T13:57:00Z 2010-10-11T14:19:15Z

My colleague John Duce and I wrote in this week's issue of Bloomberg Businessweek about China's search for unconventional gas -- gas trapped in coal deposits, for instance, or in shale. The country has huge potential for this kind of...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2010:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.29560 2010-09-27T03:23:59Z 2010-09-27T03:40:45Z

Barring any more disasters, the Commonwealth Games will open in New Delhi on schedule after all. The fact that the games won't be delayed or cancelled is a victory for India's beleaguered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Still, the games have...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2010:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.29556 2010-09-22T01:29:41Z 2010-09-22T01:39:56Z

I was in Beijing late last month, shortly after news broke that China had passed Japan as the world's second-largest economy. The official line in the Chinese media: No gloating over passing China's longtime rival. For instance, when Premier Wen...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2010:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.29515 2010-09-08T02:14:13Z 2010-09-08T02:25:09Z

In the U.S., Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies is encountering new opposition from Republican senators. Huawei has had its share of political problems in India, too, with New Delhi putting Huawei and Chinese rival ZTE on a blacklist earlier...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2010:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.29513 2010-09-06T01:49:41Z 2010-09-06T01:54:37Z

No rest for China's weary banking reformers. Over the summer, they got Agricultural Bank of China over the finish line, with the state-owned bank pulling off the world's largest IPO. AgBank was the weakest of the Big Four state-owned banks,...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2010:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.29495 2010-08-27T02:48:43Z 2010-08-27T02:56:28Z

Apple's in a bind in China. It has teamed up with China Unicom, the perennial also-ran in the country. Unicom has exclusive rights to the iPhone in the world's biggest cellular market, but it wasn't Apple's first choice for a...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2010:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.29491 2010-08-25T02:44:52Z 2010-08-25T02:58:10Z

Asian countries are well-positioned to benefit from the latest setback for stem cell research in the U.S. During the Bush years, countries such as Singapore and China took advantage of the U.S. ban on embryonic stem-cell research by providing a...

Bruce Einhorn tag:www.businessweek.com,2010:/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia//23.29486 2010-08-24T02:20:58Z 2010-08-24T02:30:56Z

China's biggest maker of telecom equipment is the subject of a new campaign by a group of Republican senators demanding the Obama administration investigate the company, which wants to sell equipment to Sprint Nextel. "Huawei has a concerning history," write...

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