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...Getting to the top is tough - and holding market share can be even tougher. After setting the pace in netbooks, Asustek has since been losing sales as much larger rivals, including Acer, have muscled in. The company posted its first quarterly loss in the last three months of 2008 after misjudging demand during the recession. "That was a lesson learned," says Asus chairman Jonney Shih, who is adjusting by shrinking the company's product line. Says HTC's Chou: "You're competing with giants like Apple and Nokia. You must really have something special...
During some of the tougher times, were the physical or mental challenges more difficult? Sleep deprivation was probably the hardest constant thing. It was a pretty regular thing that I'd be up for 48 hours at a time...
...Rudd, a Mandarin speaker who once served as a diplomat in Beijing, has pushed for closer relations with China, Australia's biggest trading partner. Until now his government has avoided "megaphone diplomacy" in the Rio Tinto case, but pressure from the opposition has led Rudd to take a much tougher stand as Hu nears two weeks in detention. "A range of foreign governments and corporations will be watching this case with interest and be watching it very closely," Rudd said. "And they'll be drawing their own conclusions about how it is conducted." (Read "China Buys Australia On the Cheap...
What each nation most wants from the other is plain enough. The U.S. would like Russia to endorse and enforce tougher action to combat the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea and to quit bullying democratic neighbors like Ukraine and Georgia. Russia would like the U.S. to recognize that it has its own sphere of influence in the "near abroad" - the territory of the old Soviet Union - and halt NATO's expansion to the east. More generally, Moscow would like some respect. "The Russians want to belong. They want to feel big," says Finland's Foreign Minister, Alexander Stubb...
...Foreign Minister is an unlikely firebrand. In person, he can be reserved to the point of shyness. When we met him at his office on June 24, we asked Lieberman whether Obama needed to take a tougher stand against Iran's crackdown on those protesting the results of the June 12 election. "This is a really fanatic, extremist regime that is still in power, and the young people ... are not getting any real support from the West," he said. "It shows the bad guys are winners." And he reiterated his resistance to any U.S. attempt to stop settlement growth...