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A-pop! #NotTheSame and “The Big Sick”

December 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly With the holidays officially underway, we’re counting down the final days of 2015. Take a second to reflect on what has happened this year including November’s latest events with Asians and Asian Americans in the media. #NotTheSame awareness campaign The Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit […]

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2015, Asian Americans, Catch Sanjay, Comedy Central, Finding Nemo, Joy Yoo, Judd Apatow-produced, Kumail Nanjiani, PSA, Pacific Islander, Pacific Islanders, Pakistani American Nanjiani, Pixar Animation Studio, Sanjay Patel, Silicon Valley, Super Team, Toy Story, Vol 34 No 51 | December 12 - December 18, culture, social media

Toyota invests $1b in artificial intelligence in US

November 14, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. is investing $1 billion in a research company it’s setting up in Silicon Valley to develop artificial intelligence and robotics, underlining the Japanese automaker’s determination to lead in futuristic cars that drive themselves and apply the technology to other areas of daily life. […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, AI, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, General Motors, Gill Pratt, Google, MIT, Silicon Valley, Stanford University, Tokyo, Toyota President Akio Toyoda, Toyota Research Institute Inc, US, Vol 34 No 47 | November 14 - November 20, technology

Pao resigns — Controversial CEO leaves Reddit

July 25, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Marley Jay Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Reddit announced July 3 that interim CEO Ellen Pao resigned from the company, and co-founder Steve Huffman is back as its CEO. The freewheeling online discussion forum and news site, which says it had 164 million unique visitors last month, has been rocked by unrest recently. […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, Alexis Ohanian, Associated Press, CEO, Conde Nast, Jennifer Lawrence, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, President Barack Obama, San Francisco-based Reddit, Silicon Valley, Victoria Taylor, Vol 34 No 31 | July 25 - July 31, communication, social media

Artsy coffee chain Blue Bottle brews long queues in Tokyo

May 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan, famous for green tea, is welcoming artisanal American coffee roaster Blue Bottle with long lines that have at times meant a four-hour wait for a cup. The company, which began in Oakland, California in 2002, hopes its early popularity is more than a passing fad. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Smith, Blue Bottle, Founder James Freeman, Giant Steps, Jotaro Fujii, New York, Saki Igawa, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco-based Tartine Bakery, Shake Shack, Silicon Valley, Takuya Nakagawa, Tokyo, Tottori Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Vol 34 No 23 | May 30 - June 5, attention, culture, japan

Chinese gay dating app grows to 15 million users

December 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Louise Watt and Aritz Parra Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. By night, he ran a website for gay people to share experiences and on which he spoke under a pseudonym about the pressure he faced as a homosexual.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Andrea Pastorelli, Aritz Parra, Associated Press, Beijing, Blue City, China, Chinese, Geng Le, HIV, His Danlan, IPO, LGBT, Ma Baoli, Silicon Valley, United Nations Development Programme, Vol 33 No 50 | December 6 - December 12

Open sesame… – Alibaba moves into Seattle, next to competitor Amazon

November 6, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Chinese e-commerce company, Alibaba, has settled into offices in downtown Seattle near one of its

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Business, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Alibaba, CEO, China, Chinese, Jack Ma, Jason Cruz, New York Stock Exchange, Northwest Asian Weekly, Puget Sound Business Journal, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Sixth Avenue, United States, Vol 33 No 46 | November 8 - November 14, Wall Street

Alibaba to open office in area soon? — Chinese e-commerce giant could make Seattle its second US office

August 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly All indications point to Chinese tech giant, Alibaba, setting up an office in the area. Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce and technology company, is recruiting for jobs in the Seattle area. This has led many to conclude that an office for the company will not be far behind. Alibaba is […]

Filed Under: Business, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Alibaba, China Yellowpages, Chinese, Google, IPO, Jack Ma, Jason Cruz, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pacific Northwest, Seattle, Silicon Valley, US, United States, Vol 33 No 32 | August 2 - August 8, Wang Jian, technology

Immigrants fueling a U.S. boom in cricket

June 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Frank Eltman Associated Press EAST ISLIP, New York (AP) – Cricket, the international game of bats and balls that isn’t baseball, is enjoying a surge of popularity in America, with the debut of a national league this spring and higher demand to build “pitches” across the country.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, American Cricket Champions League, American Cricket Federation, Associated Press, Bangladesh, David Martin, His Brooklyn International High School, John Aaron, Los Angeles, New York City, Silicon Valley, South Asian, United States, Vol 33 No 24 | June 7 - June 13

California governor looks to China for investments

April 13, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Juliet Williams The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has designs on building some of the most expensive public works projects in the nation and wants to keep the state moving forward in its slow recovery from the recession. Where better to go searching for the money to further those […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, Arkansas Economic Development Agency, Arkansas Gov, Asia Society, Beijing, Bruce Pickering, China, Chinese, Dan Richard, Jerry Brown, Jim Wunderman, Joe Holmes, Mike Beebe, Pearl River Delta, Silicon Valley, United States, Vol 32 No 16 | April 13 - April 19

Japanese diplomat sentenced in violence case

March 30, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Rafu Shimpo Staff New America Media REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Yoshiaki Nagaya, 33, vice consul at the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco, has been sentenced to one year in jail for domestic abuse.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Deputy Consul General Nobuhiro Watanabe, Deputy District Attorney Tricia Povah, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, Garrick Lew, Japanese Consulate, Judge Parsons, New America Media, Northern California, San Bruno, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Vol 32 No 14 | March 30 - April 5, Yoshiaki Nagaya, Yuka Nagaya

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