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China Bites: Angry Birds, Warren Buffett and Dancing Robots

Posted by Abe Sauer on January 31, 2012 01:01 PM

Angry Birds are celebrating the start of the Year of the Dragon, but the piggies are trying to scare them away from their eggs! Luckily the Angry Birds have some help — the Mighty Eagle has transformed into the fearsome Mighty Dragon!

In China, brands like Nescafe are tapping into rebellious icons like Han Han.

The secret capitalist document that transformed China into the juggernaut it is today.

How to sell the iconic Oreo cookie in a country where it's no icon.

New City king in town: "The basis for Shanghai's No. 1 ranking was employment growth of 5.8% and a metro economy expanding 9.8% from 2010 to 2011."

Yunnan based company are invents worlds "first wearable PC" the Eve-book.

The Wall Street Journal introduces "China Real Time’s China Econtracker"

CCTV's Lunar New Year "Big Show" welcomed dancing robots).

Billionaire Warren Buffet also appeared on on China's CCTV new year's celebration, wishing nation a happy Year of the Dragon, sings "Working on the Railroad"… while playing ukulele. And that, as they say, is that.

UK Prime Minister Cameron offers a Chinese New Year message.

Part 2 of Jing Daily's Year of the Dragon Gift Guide: From Blowout to Budget. Includes the Year of the Dragon New Balance ML574s.

Diageo honors Year of the Dragon with limited-edition "baijiu."

Disney plans to expand its kingdom in Middle Kingdom.

NYC Montblanc flagship store hosts invitation-only performance by Lang Lang, China’s most famous classical pianist.

Twitter what? Sina Weibo clocked record 32,312 messages per second during the Lunar New Year holiday.

China creates and releases the “RedPad," an iPad-like tablet computer specifically for government leaders.

After TV ad restrictions, Chinese brands are moving to digital.

With Weixin, Tencent finally has a product for white-collars.

But what did the Chinese think of SOPA?

Shanghai Airlines adds local flavor by speaking Shanghainese.

Chinese man answers burning question, what skips on water better, an iPhone or a HTC G10? (via)

Comments

Jacqueline Xu United States says:

Love it, brands are more and more consider cross cultural communication, especially in china, you have to be chinese to win people's heart.

February 1, 2012 01:21 PM #

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