HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese tech firm that says it owns the iPad trademark, plans to seek a ban on exports of Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) computer tablets from China, a lawyer for the company said.

If successful, the move could deal a blow to the U.S. technology giant’s iPad sales worldwide. Not only is China a huge consumer market but it is a major production base for the American company’s iconic products including the iPad, iPhone and iPod.

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese tech firm claiming to own the “iPad” trademark plans to seek a ban on exports of Apple Inc’s computer tablets from China, a lawyer for the company said.

If successful, the move would deal a blow to the U.S. technology giant’s iPad sales. Not only is China a huge consumer market but it is a major production base for the American company’s iconic products including the iPad, iPhone and iPod.

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A Chinese tech firm
claiming to own the “iPad” trademark plans to seek a ban on
exports of Apple Inc’s computer tablets from China, a
lawyer for the company said.

If successful, the move would deal a blow to the U.S.
technology giant’s iPad sales. Not only is China a huge consumer
market but it is a major production base for the American
company’s iconic products including the iPad, iPhone and iPod.

SHANGHAI, Feb 13 (Reuters) – As the first ripples of
“Linsanity” hit Asia, ethnic Chinese-American Jeremy Lin’s
fairytale rise has marketing men rubbing their hands with glee
as they contemplate a potential candidate to fill the very large
shoes left by last year’s retirement of Yao Ming.

A clean-cut Harvard graduate rejected by a string of NBA
teams, New York Knicks guard Lin has emerged suddenly over the
last couple of weeks to inspire a franchise which has
underperformed for years in one of the world’s biggest sports
markets.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – If anyone can pull off the labyrinthine deal between Alibaba Group and Yahoo Inc, it is Jack Ma, who founded the e-commerce group and within a decade unlocked China’s huge online shopping potential.

The former tour guide and English teacher, who is now worth around $1.6 billion (1.0 billion pounds) according to Forbes and has dubbed himself ‘China’s Forrest Gump’, built his e-commerce empire from scratch and has steered it through numerous bumps.

SHANGHAI, Feb 10 (Reuters) – If anyone can pull off
the labyrinthine deal between Alibaba Group and Yahoo Inc
, it is Jack Ma, who founded the e-commerce group and
within a decade unlocked China’s huge online shopping potential.

The former tour guide and English teacher, who is now worth
around $1.6 billion according to Forbes and has dubbed himself
‘China’s Forrest Gump’, built his e-commerce empire from scratch
and has steered it through numerous bumps.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world’s biggest internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it will succeed look slim.

Facebook said last week it was contemplating re-entering China, the world’s second biggest economy, after being blocked nearly three years ago.

SHANGHAI, Feb 8 (Reuters) – When it comes to China,
Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world’s
biggest internet population might seem an obvious ambition for
the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth
before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it
will succeed look slim.

Facebook said last week it was contemplating re-entering
China, the world’s second biggest economy, after being blocked
nearly three years ago.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores
Inc named company executive Greg Foran as the president
and chief executive of Walmart China, capping a series
of leadership changes at the China unit that has been tainted by
food scandals.

Foran, who joined Walmart in October after a long career
with Australian retailing group Woolworths, was chosen
to replace Ed Chan, who stepped down last year after a pork
mislabelling scandal that forced the company to temporarily shut
a dozen stores in central China.

SHANGHAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Danish brewer Carlsberg
A/S is seeking to have independent accountants to
audit Chongqing Brewery, in the latest shareholder
action against the Chinese company hit by slumping share prices
and accusations of mismanagement.

China’s third-largest brewer by market capitalisation, which
is nearly 30 percent owned by Carlsberg, has been under fire as
its share prices tumbled 70 percent during the past two months,
wiping out nearly 30 billion yuan ($4.8 billion) in value.