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...
Facebook is in many ways synonymous with Social Gaming, and Facebook users are always trying to find out the latest game to try their hands at. There are new games being added constantly and some become popular while other don't. It would surprise many to know that women are equally addicted to these games as men. A gamer with the advent of social sites is no more a geek in front of a console but people who are well settled in their jobs and playing social games. Some of the popular games are Mafia Wars, Farmville and Petville. People are willing to pay real currency for virtual points and the revenue to be generated from virtual gaming in the future could be upwards of 10 billion USD. Social games are not restricted to any one country and come from all countries of the world. And what keeps people coming back to virtual games is the ability to play against their friends who could be scattered across the globe. Facebook does have a list or directory of these games that is easily ac...