Then, like any savvy product developer, he brought in first-rate engineering to make what he had demonstrated real.

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Also, China reported a year-over-year Gross Domestic Product growth rate of 7.7% for the first quarter of 2013.

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The first-quarter advance gross domestic product estimate is seen coming in at a 3.2% annual growth rate, which follows a paltry 0.4% growth rate in the fourth quarter of last year.

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