It is not easy to pin down exact dates in a hazy age, but Western historians are probably right in marking off the period 1500 to the present as the age of European global predominance.
Comparatively, industry PC shipments increased just 2.7 percent worldwide for the same period, marking the ninth quarter in a row that Lenovo has grown faster than the industry.
The upsurge in fighting, hard on the heels of President Barack Obama's re-election, was seen as marking something of a rapprochement in ties between Israel and Washington after a very tense period.