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by Greg Cruey on November 29, 2007
He's fifty-nine. He's been a GOP member of the House of Representatives for almost half his life. He's served as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. And now California...
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by Greg Cruey on November 28, 2007
The emergence of private education in China as a focus of investment and venture capital has become obvious over the past few months, with companies like Noah Education, Ambow, Juren Education Group,...
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Looking for a job, a change of location, or maybe a nice raise? Half the venture capital world may be looking for you, depending on what you know... A.E. Feldman pointed out this week in their blog...
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If the euro is worth too much in China or the yuan is worth too little in France and Germany, that's America's fault. That was the basic message Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gave to European...
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by Greg Cruey on November 26, 2007
China's Iron Lady, Vice Premier Wu Yi, announced on Friday that she would retire in March when China's new administration takes office, according to Seniors World Chronicle. Wu is 69. Wu is a...
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by Greg Cruey on November 25, 2007
Pacific Epoch carried a report earlier this month on the number of Skype users in China. Pacific Epoch reported on an announcement by Skype's China partner, TOM online in which TOM claimed that...
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After making its debut investment earlier this month in a basic industrial sector of the Chinese economy, China's first home grown private equity fund is continuing to take a different path than...
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The US-based venture capital firm Walden International is looking to increase its investment in Taiwan, according to Digitimes in Taipei. Digitimes quotes Walden managing director Brian Chiang who...
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Redbaby is a business-to-consumer (B2C) website based in Beijing. The company started off dealing in children's products, selling them through an online portal. It has broadened its product line,...
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venture capital investment continues to grow in China, but it is changing direction in China according to a recent report by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne on third quarter venture capital...
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by Greg Cruey on November 14, 2007
A variety of news sources are reporting today that former Vice-President Al Gore has signed on as a partner at one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firm. Kleiner Perkins Caufield &...
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Forbes published a report recently saying that private equity continues to face hurdles in China. China's private equity industry is in a state of change and is experiencing growth. We reported...
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by Greg Cruey on November 12, 2007
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has decided to place new limits on foreign investment in a number of areas of the economy, including real estate according to the...
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I am not an economist. I heard some sound bites recently from the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, that make it sound like being an economist is not that big a deal anyway. So maybe...
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Clean technology has been a hot topic recently for venture capital buffs interested in China. So when I saw this article in Business Week I knew I'd have to at least mention it... "Venture...
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Bohai Industrial investment fund, China's first Western-styled private equity fund, made its debut investment Friday. Where did the money go? Not to the tech sector or to clean energy. Not into...
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I read a blog by Richard Brubaker, Founder and Managing Director of China Strategic Development Partners. Rich's company is based in Shanghai, and in a recent blog he talked about the falling...
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