On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Yahoo Facebook integration just got deeper. Yahoo pulse will soon be available to all member Yahoo sites across their networks. The integration beings Yahoo and Facebook closer building ties and Yahoo will in more ways that one prevent their existing members from defecting to Facebook.With Yahoo pulse users will be able to updated their Facebook status from one place and pollinate both the streams at once. This deal also means that users of Flickr, Yahoo Answers and the sites video and music services can pipe out media or data their create to their Facebook friends.
Yahoo profiles will be renamed Yahoo Pulse and users will get enhanced privacy controls.
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