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...began a national push in 2004. In the two years since, the number of its cheerful yellow outlets and the size of its revenues have both increased tenfold. Last year it sold 9 million handsets. It's now a $2 billion company. By any standard, that's explosive growth. "Microsoft and Dell didn't do it that quickly," says Jan Dauman, a London-based consultant who is advising the company on how to cope with its rapid expansion. Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Euroset's ponytailed co-founder and chairman, is conscious of his success - perhaps too conscious. In a corner...
...Bill Gates, are a friend of China, and I'm a friend of Microsoft. I am dealing with the operating system produced by Microsoft every...
...JINTAO, President of China, to Bill Gates at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., at the start of a U.S. visit last week...
...real battle will begin this fall when Sony ships its long-awaited PlayStation 3. In addition to playing state-of-the-art video games, it will be equipped with Blu-ray technology and is expected to sell for less than $500. Not to be outdone, Microsoft (Sony's main competitor in the video-game market) has let it be known that it will offer HD DVD as an add-on to its Xbox 360 game console...
...course, is hardly averse to making pointed displays of China's burgeoning wealth and power. Last week, in advance of Hu's visit, a 200-strong Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Wu Yi toured the U.S., signing no less than $16 billion in contracts with American behemoths like Microsoft and Boeing. But the extent of the change in China's sense of itself is equally evident among ordinary folk. A few blocks from Shanghai's Bund, a huge American flag dominates the entrance to an outlet selling the 100%-polyester products of the Shanghai Flag and Tent Factory...