"China's exports largely consist of low-value everyday goods like cheap electrical appliances and textiles - but that's a long way from where it wants to be..."

The American Dialect Society, an association that studies the English language, has announced that "tweet" is the top word of 2009, and "Google" - the verb, not the noun - is the top word of the past decade.

Taiwan's anti-China opposition has won all three legislative seats up for grabs in by-elections, giving it more clout to propose bills in parliament and further pressuring the Beijing-friendly ruling Nationalists.

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Kingston Technology is recalling certain models of its DataTraveler secure USB flash drives in order to update firmware on the drives after a security company found a flaw that could allow a hacker to gain access to a user's password.

Seeking to claim a generous share of the e-reader chip market, Texas Instruments will try to entice prospective e-reader OEMs with a chip set and software that the company claims will reduce the size and increase the battery life of e-book mobile devices.

China's exports probably ended a 13-month slide in December, aiding an economic rebound that has so far depended on government stimulus measures and a credit-fueled building boom.

For years, TSMC has primarily used ASML as its lithography vendor. But in a surprise move, TSMC has procured a new 193nm immersion lithography scanner from Nikon.