![]() ![]() Two years ago, he started to build his first Cybiko, using Russianĭevelopers and Russian investors. Of developing "a piece of hardware that would connect young people Soviet Union's best and brightest fled to the West, Yang stayedīehind and developed ABBYY, which is now a world leader in opticalĬharacter recognition scanning. In 1989, while still a student, Yang founded his first softwareĬompany, ABBYY Software House. collapsed, with a degree in applied mathematics and Yang spent his first 17 years in Armenia beforeĮnrolling in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the With investment secured, Yang is ready to talk.īorn in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, Yang is the Soviet son of aĬhinese father and an Armenian mother. However, he hit the money zone when AOL bought a reported 20% While Yang trolled for investors, heĭeliberately kept the company's Russian roots quiet. The brains of 180 Russian programmers, engineers and designers The company's headquarters inīloomingdale, Illinois is only a skeleton operation Cybiko runs on While reams have been written about Cybiko since its launch, Yang Hundreds of thousands of teenagers around the world. (Since the content is on that site alone, theĬompany will soon have an alluring resource: exclusive access to They can download games, for free, from the website Yang's strategy is simple: build up a massive base of Cybiko CybikosĬan go anywhere and, within a radius of 90 m outdoors, two units Local networking capabilities to combine entertainment withĬommunication." Simply put, Cybiko is a toy, a mobile telephoneĪnd a teen personal digital assistant (pda) all in one. What is Cybiko? "It's a handheld computer," says Yang, "that inĬontrast to the PalmPilot has multitasking functions and built-in Sales of Cybiko, which retails in the U.S. Introduced last April in the U.S.,Ĭybiko has proved a huge hit among American teenagers. But David Yang remainsĪlmost unknown, even though he's the brains behind Cybiko, one ofįew kids' playthings have ever been so passionately discussed in He has talked AOL's Steve Case into investing, as wellĪs Esther Dyson, doyenne of the Internet. His creation may grow to be the bane of teachers and parents ![]()
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