We’ve been spending some quality time with a new iPad here today at GeekWire,?focusing on the new and updated apps for the tablet’s high-definition retina display.
When Italian tire maker Pirelli was acquired in 2015 by a consortium led by China National Chemical Corp, or ChemChina, the news shocked Italy.
What captured their imagination were the demonstrations and performances by artists from the Beijing intangible heritage preservation group and Heilongjiang song and dance troupe.
What I show is the potential in places, such as when the weather is good or when light is ideal. I think that's what real art does - it brings out the potential of places or people.
What will be the country's calling card in the coming years?
When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited the Museum of Flight this weekend to answer questions from students, the kids did not hold back.
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When Huang checked the actual situation and conditions in the homes of villagers in 2011, he found many of them were growing yellow peaches, even though it didn't bring them much economic benefit. The agriculture major was surprised to find that many crops would not grow in the county but yellow peaches were suited to the particular soil and tasted good, so he decided to "turn the sparsely grown fruit into a commodity to help lift people out of poverty".
Wheat and Baker, an independent shop from Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, took home the title of the best baguette maker. Pain Chaud, co-founded by a Belgian entrepreneur in Shanghai that has grown into a chain with three locations, won the award of Best Viennoiserie with its puffy pastries. Le Parisienne, also from Shanghai, outperformed in the sandwich category with its spicy shrimp avocado sandwich.
What was that era like just before you joined Amazon in 1994? “The previous job I had was with Kaleida Labs, which was an Apple-IBM joint venture that called itself a startup but really wasn’t. I left that in the Spring of 1994. ?I lived in Santa Cruz, California, and that was at the time when there was a huge amount of ferment in the air with Netscape hiring up all of the hot-shot programmers around…. There wasn’t really much else going on at that time, but there was quite a bit of buzz about the Web, so my friend and I were thinking that we should do something about this, it is a big opportunity. I had been working in computers since the mid-70s and had sort of seen the first wave of the PC revolution come, and I didn’t jump on that. At the time, I was more enamored of what we then thought of as bigger machines, the kind of machines that the universities had. I was interested in the type of software that could run on those. I watched as the first PC wave happened and got bigger and bigger and bigger, and at some point I realized: ‘Oh, I kind of missed getting on that wave.’ So, I always had in the back of mind, if I see something that I want to be participate in coming, next time, I am going to act on it. A lot of time went by before I had that feeling again.’
When Maloney was 6, his father was fatally stabbed, he told the Times, which made him well aware of the danger of weapons like knives.