DALIAN, China (Reuters) – Europe and the United States could face 10 years of slow growth and high unemployment if a global solution for the euro zone debt crisis is not implemented soon, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday.

“Unless there is global coordination…I foresee 10 years of low growth in Europe and America, I foresee very high levels of unemployment and I foresee a failure of coordination that will lead in the end to greater protectionism,” Brown told reporters and participants at the World Economic Forum in Dalian.

DALIAN, China, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Europe and the United
States could face 10 years of slow growth and high unemployment
if a global solution for the euro zone debt crisis is not
implemented soon, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
said on Friday.

“Unless there is global coordination…I foresee 10 years of
low growth in Europe and America, I foresee very high levels of
unemployment and I foresee a failure of coordination that will
lead in the end to greater protectionism,” Brown told reporters
and participants at the World Economic Forum in Dalian.

DALIAN, China, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Demand for new airplanes
from China and Asia will provide Airbus with a buffer for growth
in the event of a global recession resulting from Europe’s debt
crisis, the company’s chief operating office said on Thursday.

“So far we have 1,000 net orders (from Europe) at the end of
August and the air traffic is still good,” Fabrice Bregier told
Reuters in an interview.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Dell Inc plans to partner with China’s top search engine Baidu Inc to develop tablet computers and mobile phones, targeting the Chinese market now dominated by Apple Inc and Lenovo devices.

China is one of the fastest growing markets for tablets and is home to more than 900 million mobile phone subscribers. Analysts said the tie-up could be Dell’s way to revive its flagging tablet business.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Dell Inc said on Tuesday it will partner China’s top search engine Baidu Inc to develop tablet computers and mobile handsets.

Baidu offered a glimpse of its upcoming mobile operating system and launched a new mobile application platform last Friday aimed at bolstering its presence in the increasingly competitive mobile web market.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Baidu Inc is on the lookout for acquisitions in mobile Internet and cloud computing, part of a broader drive to bolster its presence in the increasingly competitive mobile web market.

China’s top Internet search engine launched a new mobile application platform on Friday, named Baidu Yi, and offered a glimpse of its upcoming mobile operating system which it hopes will service a growing number of users accessing the Internet from smartphones and tablet computers.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top search engine Baidu Inc launched a new mobile application system on Friday, seeking to bolster its presence in the mobile web as competitors including Alibaba Group increase their mobile offerings.

The platform, named Baidu Yi, will enable third-party application developers to create apps such as games, maps and other tools that they can distribute in the Yi store in a similar way to Apple Inc’s App store.

SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI (Reuters)- From San Francisco to Seoul to Sydney, fans of Apple Inc paid tribute to Steve Jobs after he resigned as CEO, calling him an icon for the entire technology industry, not just the company he co-founded.

The extraordinary outpouring on blogs and Twitter began minutes after Jobs, who has been on medical leave since January, announced he would leave the chief executive’s post but carry on as chairman of Apple.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A six-second clip on Chinese state television has provided a rare glimpse into purported cyber hacking attacks launched by the country’s military, despite long-standing official denials that the government engages in such activity.

In an episode titled “The Internet storm is here,” CCTV-7, China’s official military channel, had experts discussing the different methods of cyberattacks and U.S. cyber operations. (here)

SHANGHAI, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Increasing scrutiny into
China’s top search engine company Baidu by state media
is highlighting the fierce competition developing between
traditional and new media over lucrative advertising dollars.

The barrage of criticisms could also signal Beijing’s
intention to toughen its anti-monopoly stance against Baidu and
tighten regulations in the Internet sector as a means to enforce
its official line, analysts said on Thursday.