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A Chinese telecommunications company founded in the 80's. In the past 5 years, it rose to grab huge market shares in Europe (3G network, Networking equipment, Optical Communication Equipment, etc). Its chief competitors include Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Cisco.

It hires mostly Chinese Masters or PhD's in Electrical Engineering, Communication Networks, and Computer Hardware. It's known for its demanding 20-hour work days, and its no-nonsense approach to business and competition.

It's currently the fastest growing telecommuncations company in the world, and has surpassed both Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent in market share in continental Europe and Asia.
While Nortel just filed for bankruptcy, Huawei reported record Q4 earnings for 2008.

Huawai is a microcosm of the hardworking attitude and the resultant success of China.
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Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy
Person A: Man, that nutcase Martin Bryant guy shot 35 people in Tasmania!

Person B: No, he wasn't a nutcase, that was just a psyop so the government could have an excuse to ban guns.
by Mystikan April 11, 2006
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To "Huawei" something, is to rip it off, slightly tweak it, and pass it of as your own.
Have you see what they've done, it's a complete Huawei of something I did a week ago!
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A state of confusion and misery caused by unintelligible communication and a culture of craftmanshit.
Why did you quit your job? The lack of QA and the short deadlines was making me huawei.
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Huawei is a Chinese electronic company that sells devices from phones to TVs Huawei ranked 3rd in the global market in 2015 for selling around 108 million smart phones!
and no huawei is not pronounced Hawaii and is pronounced like wau-way
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A information stealing machine that can take great photos.
Give Huawei a try if you want your information stolen by China.
by ChinaGei July 02, 2020
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(n) The biggest telecom company in China
(v) To rip off / steal
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