To derive an alternative measure, Yiping Huang and his colleagues at Barclays Capital, an investment bank, have tried to pick out those retail sales that are likely to reflect consumer purchases.
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The long-awaited structural shift in China is now under way and may have been underappreciated, says Yiping Huang, an economist for Barclays Capital in Hong Kong.
Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.
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Still, it quickly became clear that cutting an immunity deal probably served Huang's interests more than anyone else's.
The Justice Department said that Huang will make an initial appearance in federal court next week and is expected to plead guilty soon after.
Last July, QSL Sports, a company backed by a Chinese tycoon, Adrian Cheng, and a Chinese-born American entrepreneur, Kenny Huang, reached an agreement with the government to create a youth league.
Even small changes like RIM's shift to optical trackpads instead of trackballs in its new devices should improve profit margins by decreasing warranty costs, UBS analyst Phillip Huang said in an August note.
Huang Haibo, an executive at China Mobile, stressed the two companies had not made any concrete progress, yet, but noted they both hope to bring the iPhone to the world's largest developing market.
Huang Haibo, an executive at China Mobile, stressed the two companies have so far only made preliminary contact, without anything set in stone, yet, but noted they hope to bring the iPhone to China.
However, to avoid such latency issues, users will only be able to connect the console to a PC on the same home network - although Mr Huang said it was an ambition to allow them to go "beyond the house" with future devices.
Mr Huang considers this to be an infinitely better way to invest than buying shares or bonds (both of which he avoids) that cannot be subjected to the same sort of intimate credit appraisal.
Zhang Jiewin and Yang wei, the top seeds, overcame Huang Sui and Gao Ling in an all-Chinese women's doubles final.
In his Santa Barbara speech, Clinton did not mention Democratic contributions from an Indonesian banking family, fund-raiser John Huang, or a Democratic fund-raiser at a tax-exempt Buddhist temple in Southern California.
Although previous studies suggested a mere title is enough to produce a detectable increase in an individual's sense of power, Dr Huang and Dr Galinsky found no difference in the word-completion scores of those told they would be managers and those told they would be subordinates.
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One of the Series 1 figures I popped open the base and removed the electronics (an idea I got after speaking to I-Wei Huang of Toys For Bob about how his children responded to electronic-less prototypes), effectively removing the toys-to-life aspect of the figure.
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As a Dow employee, Huang was subject to confidentiality, as detailed in an agreement that he had signed addressing his obligations for handling confidential information and trade secrets.
Huang sat us down in front of a Kindle Fire HD and an HDTV, handing us the Atlas, Green Throttle's dual-analog gamepad.
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Here's a little background on Just Mobile: the company started off as a PDA (mainly Windows Mobile) accessory OEM in around 2005, with Huang taking care of procurement plus manufacturing, and his talkative friend Gustafsson, an ex-banker, overlooking European sales.
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At 46 years of age, Huang, who leads the Hong Kong-based investment company QSL Sports, is an intriguing figure.
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