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Apple isn't known for its sense of humor, and this news comes as no surprise. The Steve Jobs action figure we wrote about earlier has been cancelled, after legal threats against the Chinese company that makes it.

To be a Baidu shareholder must be a wonderful thing.  The Chinese company's stock went up yet again today and was at $608.50 when the closing bell rang, making this the first time it's ever ended a trading day above $600.

Here are a couple other numbers sure to make other investors jealous: shares of Baidu actually gained 2.29 percent today, which represents a significant increase, not a symbolic tic.  Also, since January 12th (the day Google announced its "new approach to China"), shares are up a whopping 51.91 percent.

A Chinese company is now the majority owner of a Hawaii-based supplier of silicon for solar panels.

At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world's largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war.

A $7 billion mining deal between Guinea's repressive military regime and a little-known Chinese company underscores China's full-throttle rush into Africa and its willingness to deal with brutal and corrupt governments.

Yang Rong was once celebrated as a pioneering automobile entrepreneur who founded the first Chinese company to be listed on Wall Street.

China's planning agency is likely to reject a Chinese company's bid to acquire General Motors Corp.'s Hummer unit, in part because its gas-guzzling vehicles conflict with Beijing's conservation goals, state radio reported.

The takeover of Addax Petroleum would give the Chinese company access to oil fields in Iraq and off the coast of West Africa.

A $2.5 billion bid by Coca-Cola would have been the biggest foreign acquisition of a Chinese company to date.