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When people ask why Apple doesn’t make its iPads in America, the usual explanation is that labor costs are so high, there’s no way an iPad could be made in the country for less than $1000. That answer has always lacked weight, as the manual labor of constructing an iPad is actually a very small portion of its overall build cost: building an iPad in America would cut down margins, but not double the price.
Recently there has been a rumor that Baidu, China's most popular search engine, was interested in acquiring Yahoo. Robin Li, Baidu founder and CEO denied the rumor, saying the company wasn't thinking about buying up "another large company."
Apple is on the brink of becoming the poster child for worker abuse. Journalists and rights organizations are starting to draw attention to the enormous contrast between Apple’s quarterly billions in profits, and the desperate plight of abused workers in China.
Look at the back of your iPhone, or your iPad, or on the bottom of your Mac. You'll see the following words embossed somewhere: "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China."
The NY Times just published an absolutely fascinating piece on Apple and why it builds almost all of its stuff in China. Go read it. Clearly some of our politicians could learn a lot from it.
The use of microblogging in China quadrupled in 2011 compared to 2010, a Chinese government internet organisation has said.
China is vowing anew to punish people who post rumors and falsehoods on the Internet as the government tries to rein in forums that have increasingly become sources of debate and criticism.
Along some of today’s most remote stretches of the old Silk Road, long forgotten mulberry trees hunch over like tired old men, stiff and worn by the passage of time. Standing beside one, it's easy to imagine those who carved out this path in search of a precious treasure. The ancient trading routes across Central Asia were paved with the blood of adventurers and dreamers, noble emissaries and crooked tradesmen.
chinadialogue has released an ebook, “China’s Green Revolution”, of articles and commentary on environmental aspects of the 12th Five Year Plan
In China, a six-year-old boy is returning home with his father, three years after being abducted by another man. The child was rescued by the power of social media, and in particular the Chinese version of twitter.
Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes.
Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions by Chinese hackers, Google said that it would close its China-based Web site and instead direct Chinese users to a Hong Kong-based uncensored version of its service, which may get blocked in mainland China.
A new search engine called Goojje highlights why Google may leave China.
China plans to require that all personal computers sold in the country as of July 1 be shipped with software that blocks access to certain Web sites, a move that could give government censors unprecedented control over how Chinese users access the Interne
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