FT ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Awards 2011

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Today Financial Times (FT) has a supplement, a pamphlet
(a) announcing ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Awards 2011, and
(b) titled Boldness in Business: Think outside the box; Seven business innovators are honored in this year's awards.
http://www.ft.com/boldness

Robin Kwong, Breaking Out: Mediatek may have made its name as a low-cost producer, but the Taiwanese company now sells electronic chips to many of the world’s leading mobile phone companies.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6fbf3994-440a-11e0-8f20-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=a037609c-4414-11e0-8f20-00144feab49a.html

(a) Excerpt in the window of the print:

"Tsai Ming-kai's style was to set a straightforward strategy and stick to it unerringly

"MediaTek was willing to shift direction completely to adapt to changing circumstances

(b) Quote:

"The group [Mediatek] shipped 500m chips last year, more than the 453m handsets sold by Nokia over the same period * * * [China's grey-market phone shipments will rise to 255m this year] The fact that such a market exists at all is in large part due to MediaTek. * * * Its [Chinese] customers began exporting
to markets such as India, Indonesia, Brasil and Russia.

"Those 'bandit phones' have also evolved from being cheap knock-offs. Many of MediaTek’s customers are now legitimate branded manufacturers, and their phones have original designs and features such as ultraviolet lights to detect counterfeit bank notes. These Chinese-made phones proved an instant hit in emerging markets, and have increasingly forced Nokia and other big manufacturers to lower their prices and add more features to their basic models to compete.

(c) My comment:
(i) Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd 展讯通信(上海)有限公司
www.spreadtrum.com
(founded in 2001)
(ii) There is no need to read this article.


-----------------------------Separately
(1) Kathrin Hille, Smartphone Makers Face a Shortage of Chip Resin. FT, Mar 17, 2011.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f02bb38c-4ff4-11e0-9ad1-00144feab49a.html(bismaleimide-triazine resin used make substrates that connect chips; Japan makes the resin, sells to Taiwan and S Korea, which then sell chips to China, which in turn sells the world the assembled products)

My comment:
(a) FT recently adds graphics and tables to its online articles.
(b) One needs only to see the graphic of this report. Problem is, registration is required to access the report.
(c) A siubstitute:
Aries Poon and Lorraine Luk, UPDATE: Taiwan Tech Firms Evaluate Other Raw Material Suppliers After Japan Quake. Dow Jones Newswires, Mar 17, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110317-702577.html

(2) Sam Grobart, The Multifarious Problems With iPad's Challengers
New York Times, Mar 17, 2011 (title in the print).
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/forrester-report-casts-doubt-on-ipad-competitors/?scp=1&sq=grobart%20forrester&st=cse

My comment: The print edition of the article is very succint.
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