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...
Let's see isn't this embarrassing. Google applies for the Nexus One trademark and is denied because a small Oregon firm already owns the rights to the name. Somehow the genius minds at Google had failed to take into account the name. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) recently denied Google's trademark application for "Nexus One" because Portland, Oregon-based Integra Telecom already has rights to the name. As first reported by TG Daily , the small telecommunications company registered "Nexus One" two years ago and uses it for its telecom services. The company Integra does have trademark right for "Nexus" and is willing to Google about it. They are willing to discuss and make sure interests of both companies are met. Google however has said that they will fight the ruling. Some how Google names seems to keep running into troubled waters. Soon after the phone's launch, the family of late science fiction author Philip ...