Chinese Shares Surge Along With Foreign Investments

Shares rose in Asia Wednesday. In Shanghai the Composite Index climbed 1.8% to 2,758 and in Hong Kong the Hang Seng rose 1.1% to 24,420. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index was up 0.4%, ending the day at 10,557.
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Tablet Sales Expected to Surge, While Netbooks Fade Away

The tablet market is expect to dominate PC sales for a number of years to come, but forecasts about consumer electronics products are often wrong. It was only two years ago that the industry and researchers expected netbooks wo…

Apple Gets Love from Asia-Pacific: Earnings Soar 78%

Just a day after Apple announced that CEO Steve Jobs was off on his third medical leave since 2004, the stock’s already on the rebound. The company smashed its first-quarter earnings expectations, thanks to soaring Asia-Pacific…