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For Olympics, Lenovo Steps Up to World Stage
Jun 21 2008, Pooja

WITH an Italian-sounding name, a line of computers once made by I.B.M., and a chief executive who hails from Dell and NCR, the Lenovo Group is not a company that most Americans would assume is Chinese.

And that is just fine with Lenovo, which happens...

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