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...integrated into Chinese society that after the United States’ bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, efforts to boycott McDonald’s actually failed. More strikingly, during the occupation of Tiananmen Square in 1989, troops of the People’s Liberation Army ate in KFC...

Author: By Jessica S. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Understanding “Asianization” | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

...numbers are growing at 70% to 80% a year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their own Speedpass clones this year. Fast-food companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Taco Bell, as well as Canteen Vending, began rolling out m-commerce initiatives this year. Blockbuster and 7-Eleven are expected to follow soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pay Fast--With No Cash | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

About 400 customers at KFC and Taco Bell restaurants in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area are testing an m-commerce system created by 2Scoot, based in Kingston, N.Y. In July 2Scoot signed a deal with Nokia to bring cashless payments to the lunch counter at the Finnish cell-phone giant's U.S. headquarters in Irving, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pay Fast--With No Cash | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

TANGLED TREEPLES KFC The container can suction onto a child's mouth or be lodged in the throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unhappy Meals | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...there is a distinct cultural resentment in this nation, which was a worldwide empire when America was a farming colony. Today, America dominates Britain (and the world) not with arms but with economics—McDonalds, Burger King and KFC seem to be more omnipresent in London than in Boston...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON: Proud To Be an American | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

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