Yang can point out the obvious: Yahoo!

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Yang and his counterparts can thank the California State Controller's Office for trying to reunite them with their money.

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"The polarizing organic photovoltaic cell demonstrated by Professor Yang's research group can potentially harvest 75 percent of the wasted photons from LCD backlight and turn them back into electricity, " said Youssry Boutros, program director for the Intel Labs Academic Research Office, which supported the research.

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If they can get there, Yang and Storm Ventures will have a hit on their hands.

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Yang stands to lose even more if he can't prove that Yahoo!'

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"The biggest challenge a new chief executive officer faces is making sure the new business units can effectively coordinate among themselves, " said Yang Xiao, a Beijing-based analyst with research firm Analysys International.

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Yes, he is in Coughlin's mold, he said, but he also laughed that he probably makes Coughlin calmer, that he can be the yin to his coach's yang.

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Yang's device needs just two of those 1, 000 lines and can piggyback on existing cellphone technology to perform tasks, like capturing air quality samples.

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Among them, Mr. Yang discussed videos that showed how music plays in the background of the iPhone, how photos can be placed into an email and how photographs can easily be scrolled through on the devices.

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