Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Dec 3, 2012

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(1) Dexter Roberts, The March of Roberts Into Chinese Factories.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... o-chinese-factories

My comment:
(a) The summary underneath the title in print: The country will be the largest industrial robot market by 2014
(b) The summary in Table of Contents: The million-robot march into China
(c) No, the report is NOT about Foxconn.
(d) This is odd. Japanese and American car makers were proud of using robots to help make cars. Then they moved the manufacturing to China and discovered Chinese labor was better, cheaper and more versatile. Now Chinese wants production to be mechanized? Something is wrong with the picture. Either robotics has improved a great deal, or China runs out of manpower, or it is yet another 面子工程 for China.

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(2) Jun Yang and Kyunghee Park, The Curious Case of Samsung's Missing TVs
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... amsungs-missing-tvs

the first two paragraphs:

"In August, workers at Samsung Electronics (005930) in the South Korean city of Suwon swathed 60 next-generation televisions in bubble wrap and nailed them into wooden crates. Two weeks later, when the boxes were opened at a Berlin trade show, two TVs were missing. The 55-inch prototypes—each costing $10,000 and weighing about 43 pounds—featured breakthrough technology known as organic light-emitting diode displays, which make TVs thinner and help project brighter and sharper images. The suspects: corporate spies.

"Thefts of TV sets, diagrams, and circuitry are on the rise, and that’s bad news for Samsung and LG Electronics—the only companies that can commercially produce OLED displays, which the $110 billion flat-screen TV industry expects to wow consumers and revive slumping sales

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) Suwon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suwon
(水原(市); the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do 京畿道, South Korea)
(c) I was taken surprised by the assertion "Samsung and LG Electronics [are] the only companies that can commercially produce OLED displays."
Is the emphasis placed on "commercially" or the large size of OLED?  Because Taiwanese and Japanese display makers also make OLED.