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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On Wednesday, the Commerce Department announced that the gross domestic product rose 0.6% in the first quarter, the same rate reported in the previous three months.

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Growth in gross domestic product for the first three months of the year declined to an annual rate of 7.7%, compared with 7.9% in the previous three months.

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On Wednesday, the Commerce Department announced that the gross domestic product rose 0.6% in the first quarter, the same rate reported in the fourth quarter of 2007.

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The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis, the official arbiter of the size of the U.S. economy, reported on Wednesday that real gross domestic product decreased at an annual rate of 6.1% in the first three months of 2009.

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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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