Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Oct 6, 2014

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(1) Caroline Winter, US Private High Schools Accommodate Influx of Chinese Students.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... te-schools-to-adapt
(China "accounts for almost 50 percent of America’s international high school population, according to DHS")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: High schools draw affluent students from China

(b) "Heads turned when a limo pulled up to Hartsbrook School on the first day of orientation this August. The Waldorf school in rural Hadley, Mass., is known for its alternative curriculum, based on the teachings of Austrian mystic Rudolf Steiner—not for flashy displays of wealth."
(i) Hartsbrook School
www.hartsbrook.org/wp-content/uploads/Profile2013web.pdf
("The Hartsbrook School is one of 180 Waldorf schools in North America and over 1,000 worldwide. * * * Founded in 1981, The Hartsbrook School inaugurated its high school in 2002 and graduated its first seniors in 2006")

Another URL:
www.hartsbrookhs.org/
(ii) Waldorf Education
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education
(section 1 Origins and history)

(c) "Shanghai-based Burgeon Education 伯骏教育 * * * Hao WANG [伯駿負責人 王豪], a director at Burgeon"

(d) "Wisconsin International Academy in Wauwatosa houses 140 Chinese students in a former Days Inn and sends them to five day schools for classes"
(i) Wisconsin International Academy
www.english.wiaedu.org

is not a school, but similar in nature to Burgeon Education. That is, it is a recruitment center, a kind of middlemen.
(ii) Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauwatosa,_Wisconsin
(a city in Milwaukee County)

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(3) Microsoft Looks to China for an Xbox One Rescue.

Consoles are finally up for sale there, but game titles are limited and subject to censorship


(4) Jack Clark, HP, Dell, and Cisco Face Threat of Cheap Servers From Their Suppliers.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... rom-their-suppliers
("Leading generic manufacturers, including Taiwanese computer maker Quanta Computer and Fremont (Calif.)-based IT equipment specialist Synnex (SNX), made one in seven of the 8.8 million servers shipped globally last year, researcher IDC estimates. That’s triple what they made three years earlier, when they mostly did contract work for the HPs and Dells of the world. Mike Yang 楊 晴華 [Arizona State University 電子工程碩士], who runs Quanta’s U.S. subsidiary, says his company saw demand for this type of data center equipment rise almost tenfold this year from 2013 but declined to elaborate")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The old guard's manufacturers are getting into the game
(b) This report, which does not say more than what we already know, is an update on the trend.

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(2) Ian King, Intel Goes Gadget Crazy.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... s-into-new-products

Quote:

"Intel is this year’s top performer on the Dow Jones industrial average, up 35 percent as of Sept 30 [because decreasing PC sales has stabilized]

"it’s [Intel's] losing $1 billion a quarter in the business, despite discounting deeply to encourage phone and tablet makers to use its chips. * * * 'We missed the impact of how big tablets are going to be. Shame on us for that,' says Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith.

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: From smart urinals to cupcake ATMs, CEO Brian Krzanich is taking the chipmaker way past PCs
(b) Intel's new CEO Brian Krzanich is "looking for the Next Big Thing in tech and taking a kitchen-sink approach, putting Intel chips into data-driven devices that fall under the banner 'Internet of Things.'”

kitchen sink (n): "[AS MODIFIER] (In art forms) characterized by great realism in the depiction of drab or sordid subjects:  <a kitchen-sink drama>"
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/de ... nglish/kitchen-sink
(c) It seems to me that Intel is kind of desperate.