China’s factories have long churned out high tech products. A big question facing Silicon Valley–underscored in a survey released Monday by Intel and Newsweek–is how big a role the country will play in dreaming up those gadgets.
by James T. Areddy and Ellen Zhu, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal
Walt Disney won’t make Shanghai the happiest place in the world.
That’s the early reaction from a surprising number of netizens, or Chinese Internet users, to confirmation early Wednesday that plans for Shanghai Disneyland have the green light to proceed. Of the posts streaming into tianya.cn, a major portal, early Wednesday, the negative views were solidly outweighing positive views.
While 99 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have profiles on social networks, only 22 percent use Twitter, according to a new survey from Pace University and the Participatory Media Network.
by Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily
The outlook for consumer spending over the next 90 days looks “grim,” according to ChangeWave Research.
The firm said a survey of 2,701 U.S. consumers taken in the February 2-9 period found the worst spending outlook ever recorded in one of its surveys.
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