By Brian Schwarz Huawei maybe the best company many Americans and Europeans have never heard of, and that's a big problem for China, according to a recent report in Newsweek entitled Generic Giants . With revenue of more than $18 billion in 2008, soon it will overtake Nokia ( NOK ) Siemens ( SI ) as the world's second-largest maker of telecom hardware, after Ericsson ( ERIC ). The challenge for many Chinese companies as they go global is to build an attractive brand image that

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com . And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—” What the 2010 D.C. Budget Will Probably Look Like “; also see LL’s courthouse wedding coverage at the Sexist IN LL WEEKLY— Losing Control : The D.C. Council tries to exorcise the city’s fiscal demons. Morning all. Not sure where to even begin with this one: In a hearing yesterd

PUB DATE: June 2009 I have to say Thank You to Lisa at TLC Book Tours for allowing me to be a part of the tour for Two Years, No Rain. ABOUT THE BOOK: An earnest journey from heartache to heartthrob and all the emotions along the way; at once an old-fashioned love story and a cautionary tale of self-reinvention. In San Diego County, it hasn’t rained in 580 days. But for weatherman Andy Dunne, everything else is changing fast…Only a few weeks ago, he was a newly divorced, slightly overweight

It’s been one long interaction with the healthcare industry. In grad school it was working as a ward clerk at the university hospital – there most of the lessons learned were about the tenuous relationship between a doctor’s handwriting and patient outcomes. Just what were they ordering? They wouldn’t talk to you. You asked the nurses, who would sit down with you and puzzle it out. The doctors would eventually deign to talk with them, as a last resort. But they weren’t happy about it – they knew

Black Harvard Prof Upset Policeman Did Not Recognize Him - lukeford.net 07/25/2009 Andrew Breitbart ‘Let me be clear,’ Prof. Gates is a jackass. And his field of studies (the junk social science of victimhood) demanded he play the role of martyr. Was anyone surprised he overreacted? And Obama indulging Gates’ ‘You dont know who youre messing with’ while ADMITTING ‘not having been there and not seeing all the facts,’ we’ll now get more of this crap. FYI, this is what comm