SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Monday, March 2, 2009
With an emphasis on diapers, purees and pacifiers, TotSpot, Kidmondo, Lil’Grams and others offer parents one place to keep an online diary about their child, upload photographs and videos and post up-to-the-moment status updates. On TotSpot, just as on other social networking sites, parents and babies can even become friends with other parents and babies.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | Sunday, August 17, 2008
Like a growing number of entrepreneurs, George Chen, a 50-year-old Bay Area native, is chasing his American dream in China.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Just days after David Wang produced a mock newscast criticizing Taiwanese officials and uploaded the clip to Tudou, a popular video sharing site in China, it disappeared. What’s surprising is not that it was censored - but that it remained online as long as it did.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Monday, August 4, 2008
For China’s well-connected youth, the Internet and cell phone have become critical communication tools. Largely under 25, this cohort of 107 million accounts for nearly half of China’s rapidly growing Internet population. They get their news from blogs and online bulletin boards. They depend on the Internet for entertainment, downloading and watching American television shows like “Prison Break” and “Ugly Betty.” Raised in the post-Cultural Revolution era, this generation has grown up as China began its economic boom, in a decidedly different environment than their parents.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE| Sunday, August 3, 2008
From social networking to video sharing, the Chinese are fashioning their own versions of Facebook, Twitter and other popular Web sites and tweaking them to suit the tastes of the country’s exploding population of Internet users, which already surpasses that of the United States.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | Monday, November, 5, 2007
Jinhua, China — For years, Qiutian Chen labored on assembly lines. He polished marble. He built car parts. And he saved his money.
Six years ago, this unassuming son of farmers took those savings and spent an initial $13,000 to start a factory in the rural town of Jinhua, hours away from the nearest big city, Hangzhou.
Chen made golf carts, which he sold to his only customer, a Shanghai exporter. He couldn’t afford to travel to trade shows to establish his company further.
“We didn’t have the money. We couldn’t go abroad,” the stocky 43-year-old entrepreneur said.
So Chen turned to the one computer the business owned and its dial-up connection to the Internet. Now Chen, who has a junior high school education, is on his way to becoming a millionaire.
Chen and his company, Repow, demonstrate the growing influence of Alibaba.com, the Chinese e-commerce company that on Tuesday will list shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange in the largest Internet initial public offering since Google.
Contra Costa Times| Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Third in the series
“What is a reasonable time to wait?” The 5,000 employees laid off after the takeover move on and find new jobs.
Contra Costa Times| Monday, February 28, 2005
Second in the series
“This is a sad day.” PeopleSoft executives break the news to employees and prepare the company for the handover.
Contra Costa Times| Sunday, February 27, 2005
First in the series
“This is going to happen.” Over the weekend, it becomes clear that PeopleSoft Inc. will be sold to Oracle Corp.
Contra Costa Times| Tuesday, April 15, 2003
The strapless wedding gown, the three-tiered cake, the bouquet of luscious blooms. Priceless? Not nearly.