1. What's "guanxi"? Guanxi is regarded as the central idea in Chinese society with long historical and cultural roots. It is understood and utilized by virtually every Chinese person in greater or lesser measure. Understanding how the ...
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1. What's the difference between business relationship in China and in western countries? Unlike western business relationship which remains professional and perhaps, aloof, even after a long time, Chinese business relationship inevitably ...
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The Chinese people's main goal in most negotiations is to establish a relationship for future business opportunities. Guanxi is more important in these cases. The Chinese will spend considerable time on bargaining, drafting agreements, ...
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Public Wi-Fi is beginning to find its way into every corner of the UK. It is no longer the domain of the American-style coffee shop, with pubs, retailers and even theme parks offering their own connections. However, this is not enough for ...
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Citrix is focused on helping enterprises deal with the challenge of running desktops and applications in a new mobile-centric world where tablets and smartphones proliferate. "The technologies that we have, including application and ...
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have presented the shortest-gate working transistors yet built using III-V channels [J. Lin et al, IEDM, session 32.1]. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors ...
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SoleraTec LLC, a provider of innovative video lifecycle management and storage software, has been selected by Buffalo Technology to embed SoleraTec's Phoenix RSM video surveillance management software onto the new Buffalo TeraStation 5000 ...
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Datapaq introduces a new generation of the Food Tracker temperature profiling system with a humidity sensor for even more comprehensive data on food processes. The capacitive sensor provides both relative humidity and temperature data in ...
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Internet payments company PayPal will cut 325 jobs as part of a companywide reorganization, its president said Monday. The layoffs will hit PayPal's product and technology organization hardest. That's where nine product groups will be ...
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Colombian textile sector is expected to get a boost once the EU-Colombia free trade agreement (FTA) comes into force. Earlier this month, the European Parliament gave green signal for FTAs with Colombia, Peru and six Central American ...
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When David Anderson published From Worst To Best In Nine Months, he thought he was writing a Microsoft case study about something called "Drum Buffer Rope." Turns out that Anderson was also in the process of defining Kanban for software ...
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metering a greater focus at the Department of Energy on deployment of existing manufacturing technologies; improved energy efficiency within federal facilities; and a study on barriers to industrial deployment of electric motors, demand ...
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The Google Fiber broadband project underway in the Kansas City area is offering 5 Mbps Internet access for free and 1 Gbps access for $70 a month, among other major benefits. However, the project also will cost taxpayers of the sister ...
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DECC has decided to reduce support for solar power under the Renewables Obligation from 2 ROCs today to 1.6 ROCs from April 2013 – a reduction of 20%. This is higher than the level of 1.5 ROCs which was initially proposed. The STA ...
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Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science. Cambridge University is using chips normally found in computer game consoles to drive cutting-edge ...
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