(COMPUTERWORLD) JAN 5, 2015 – China’s tech star is rising rapidly. Global companies — and their savvy IT leaders — would do well to keep a close eye on the country’s technological transformation.Read More →
(HYPERGRID BUSINESS) AUG 21, 2014 How to be there without actually being there.Read More →
(HYPERGRID BUSINESS) WARWICK, RI, AUG 9, 2014 – Rep. Langevin was in town to show support for a company which he said he’s hoping will drive economic ripples into Rhode Island’s beleaguered economy.Read More →
(BOSTON) JULY 13 – Azamat Tazhayakov didn’t grow up watching American cop shows.Read More →
TIMES UNION – In case you missed it, you can now get 50 cents for each political posting advocating for a position to try to sway public opinion.Read More →
The Independent London, UK James Reynolds in Hoi An In September 2006, after experiencing the force of typhoon Xangsane. By BILL MARCUS Asia is facing the most destructive typhoons ever. Bill Marcus meets a British researcher determined to be there when they hit. James Reynolds became convinced that there were evenRead More →
The Albany Times-Union By BILL MARCUS SHANGHAI – Oliver Lu, the general manager of Niskayuna-based SI Group’s plant here, was outlining plans to Shanghai environmental protection bureau officials last July when he said he thought he saw the blood run out of his listeners’ faces. “They heard ‘formaldehyde,’ and they said,Read More →
(SHANGHAI BUSINESS REVIEW) FEB, 2007 – Research centres are springing up nationwide to assist China’s upgrading of its agricultural processes and transportation infrastructure.Read More →
(THE ASIA SOCIETY) DEC 4, 2006 – Since the early 1990s China’s share of foreign R&D spending grew from 0.1 to 3.1 percent.Read More →
(COMPUTERWORLD) NOV 6, 2006 – Four years ago, CEO John Cestar took a novel approach to increasing the skill levels at Freeborders.Read More →
(COMPUTERWORLD) NOV 6, 2006 – Most providers target the burgeoning domestic market, but a few offer a hybrid approach that appeals to the West.
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(COMPUTERWORLD) JUN 26, 2006 – “Finding good employees and managers was the most difficult,” says Jonathan Funkhouser, who is general manager of Hankscraft’s China operations. Read More →
(COMPUTERWORLD) JUN 26, 2006 – Although all Chinese nationals officially speak Mandarin, in practice, the local dialects can be mutually unintelligible.Read More →
CMO Magazine January 2006 Back to the Future: Chinese campaigns are a surprising mix of old and new techniques By Maria Trombly and Bill Marcus, Shanghai Jim Murphy learned about marketing to Chinese customers in bars. When he first came to China in December of 2004, he didn’t think that consumersRead More →
The Albany Times-Union November 25, 2005 A terrible threat from the north By BILL MARCUS SHANGHAI — It was so nice to wake up the other morning and hear the head of the government take full responsibility for the results of an investigation into a scandal that has rocked the nation,Read More →
(CIO INSIGHT) Oct 24, 2005 – It’s not just the intellectual-property pirates that make doing business in China difficult. The legal system makes pursuing pirates and getting indictments—let alone convictions—a struggle.Read More →
(CIO INSIGHT) Oct 20th 2005 – Feeble government actions not stemming piracy tide, business groups report. U.S. companies doing business in China face potential copyright infringement issues.Read More →
The Shanghai Daily Shanghai, China Jewish Affinity April 22, 2005 By Bill Marcus My mother had the perfect antidote to unhappiness: Chinese food. Nary a funeral nor a bad day could come between her and Hunan Manor, Tung Sing, Szechuan Palace or any of the seemingly hundreds of Chinese eateriesRead More →
The Oriental Morning Post Shanghai, China July 30, 2004 Crossing the Educational Divide By Bill Marcus As most experts increasingly believe that language and culture and connected, educators and language students are beginning to question the value of segregated language education in a society that is becoming increasingly desegregated, changingRead More →
The Oriental Morning Post Shanghai, China A friend’s mother from Holland and a local woman in Laos embrace. By Bill Marcus The Vietnam-era White House never fully debated the policy credited with the Vietnam War, or the bombing of Vietnam’s neighbor Laos. Between 1964 and 1973, American flyers dropped overRead More →