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...
Google product search which has been rechristened Google Shopping, was previously a free service that helped merchants and business owners to list their products for free. In many parts of the world Google product search has already been called Google Shopping but without the paid model. This is the first time that Google is moving a way from a free search product to a use pay-to-play model. The company says that it will better the shoppers experience in addition to making sure that business owners and merchants keep their product pricing and listings up to date. This would mean a better shopping experience for end users. This change will effect all business owners in the US and the entire transition will be complete later this fall. Other countries will get the paid model of Google Shopping early next year. With this play-to-play model merchants will have more control over where and when their ads appear. which in turn should translate into better business but this time you are actua...