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BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Steve Hamm	Big Blue's Bold Step Into China It doesn't take a genius to see why IBM's sale of its $10 billion-a-year PC business to China's Lenovo Group Ltd. relieves a huge headache for Big Blue. Teaming with Lenovo spells opportunity -- if it can meet the big challenges ahead.
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004	Tightening Israeli-Egyptian Ties Four free-trade zones will be created in Egypt as a result of a deal to be signed by Israel, Egypt, and the U.S. on Dec. 14.
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004	The New Power Of Brands In a global economy based on commodity production, brand may be a corporation's most important asset. And brand management is an increasingly critical skill for a growing number of businesses around the world. IBM's sale of its PC division to China's Lenovo Group serves as an example.
InternetNews December 6, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Cisco, Fujitsu Target Japanese Market The network gear maker teams with Fujitsu to develop high-end routers for the Japanese carriers and corporations.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Dexter Roberts	China: A Workers' State Helping The Workers? With nationalism on the rise, Beijing's leaders can win easy political capital by fingering labor practices at multinationals. But don't expect a powerful union movement to emerge in China.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Frederik Balfour	Bolstering China's Banks Beijing seems serious about bank reform, and bad-loan burdens are easing. China is racing to upgrade its banking system in advance of a 2007 WTO deadline for fully opening the sector to foreign competition.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Bruce Einhorn	Go East, Big Pharma Drugmakers are expanding in China, but patents are still a worry.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004	Easing The Dollar Dilemma If policymakers want to avoid a dollar crisis in 2005, they should attend to the one link in the currency market chain that is the weakest. And that is the dollar-yuan peg.
InternetNews December 2, 2004 Jim Wagner	Bloglines Welcomes the World With the increasing use of RSS on blogs and other sites, feed aggregators are gaining in popularity. That's why Bloglines has gone international.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2004 Brian Gorman	Are Tobacco's Days Numbered? Even with all the cards stacked against them, tobacco stocks remain by some measures attractive investments. Nevertheless, the global regulatory environment may be getting just too hot to handle.
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