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Is this a typical phase in the venture capitalist method of taking over a company, where, after a seemingly overgenerous initial investment that leaves the founders in charge a second round of financing gives the investors the leverage to oust the founder and replace him with professional management?...

China has been "borrowing industrial manufacturing technology" from American companies for as long as those companies have been killing their supply base by insisting that suppliers meet, match, and/or exceed the China price; i.e., the price for which the customer can ostensibly get the 'same; part...

It is not only poor fuel quality and worn out, poorly engineered in the first place, diesel truck engines that are causing the massive photochemical smogs in Chinese cities due to their, the trucks,' huge emissions of acid-rain forming, photochemical smog producing, nitrogen and sulfur oxides,...

The transfer of manufacturing technology from the most industrialized western countries to Asia has been going on for more than a century. Will the OEM automotive industry get value or creative destruction from its decision to pay for Chinese low cost labor with manufacturing technology that will ultimately...

The short sighted stock market does not understand GM's global plan. General Motors is North America's highest volume domestic vehicle producer and seller. General Motors is the highest volume non-European manufacturer and seller of vehicles in Western Europe. General Motors is the largest...

The Chinese steel industry produces today about one-third of the world's steel each year, and it is growing. China has essentially no domestic iron ore resources or reserves. Chinese steel is today produced mainly from iron ore in basic oxygen (blast) furnaces. China today must pay for imported...

General Motors made a bad bet by putting all of its (out)sourcing into a China price basket; it left itself thereby completely at the mercy of global market forces over which it has no control whatsoever and which its increasingly isolated purchasing managers seem not to comprehend.

The obsolescent Toyota Prius is probably now and most likely has always been a money losing car to build, sell, and maintain, which even at just 3% of Toyota's yearly build may now be having a negative impact on Toyota's image all out of proportion to its sales volume. This is a sharp contrast with...

It has always been cheaper to use coke, 'carbonized coal,' to reduce iron oxide (ore) to iron in a blast furnace than to use any other reducing agent, such as hydrogen. Coke has long been the only practical reducing agent, and has been in use, since the beginning of the blast-furnace era in Wyandotte,...

Tata is trying to buy the Jaguar and Land Rover brands as an entre into the western European and North American markets for its future higher end, but still commodity, cars.