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Another Face of Intel

In people's eyes, Intel always shows itself as a 'chip giant', but now faced with tougher competition from AMD and the increasing commoditization of its core microprocessors, Intel wants to up the ante. By creating new 'platforms', Intel hopes to deliver more features than its competitors and to brand them in such a way as to create Intel-specific demand for new PCs and upgrades.

Intel has become the world's largest semiconductor company based both on its innovations and its prodigious street-fighting skills. However, this dark side of Intel doesn't change the respect people have for Intel's tremendous technological and business contributions. Intel is a great company with what is generally an above-average corporate culture.

We hope that Intel will come away from this new legal battle a wiser company, much as Microsoft has shown itself to be of late. Thetime for the sort of behavior that got these two giants into trouble, if there ever was one, is long past. It's time for Intel to join Microsoft in the circle of gracious winners.

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Dangdang: 6 Years' Development of Independence

Refusing the overseas top 500 enterprises' full purchasing by several times, Dangdang has been insisting on its own developing direction all the time within this 6 years. It is a typical model of Chinese native B2C enterprises' independent development way.

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Cool Purchasing Under the Overbearing Tide of Public Opinion

In the past few months, Chinese firms have emerged as major players in a handful of big deals, including Lenovo Group Ltd.'s purchase of International Business Machines Corp.'s personal computer business, oil company Cnooc Ltd.'s bid for Unocal Corp., and appliance maker Haier Group's play for Maytag Corp. Besides those taken place within the United States in this year, there were also many other deals outside China.

In 2003, Chinese consumer-electronics firm TCL Corp. agreed to buy the television business of Thomson SA of France, in the process acquiring the venerable RCA brand. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., which says it hopes to become one of the world's six largest carmakers, has snapped up Korea's Ssangyong Motor Co. and is trying to buy the British MG Rover Group Ltd. Cnooc and other Chinese energy companies have been pouring huge sums into Canadian oil sands development projects.

Though Wall Street analysts say the dealmaking will only intensify in the coming years, these China's Mergers still made it prudently.