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...
Pete Cashmore It is being rumored at SXSW that CNN will acquire Mashable. This according to Reuters blogger Felix Salmon. The announcements he says according to one insider is going to be announced on March 12. The deal he says is upwards of 200 million and is quiet big a deal considering that previous deals ended in tears especially the one when AOL bought TechCrunch. Mashable however is known by the masses and rose to fame covering Social Media. The blog has over 50 million monthly page-views and whose regular followers login at least once a day. This will be a huge deal - this marriage of old and new media. So we need to wait and see if this really is true and Felix seems quit confident about it you can see from the video below. The Blog was founded by Pete Cashmore in his home in Aberdene, Scotland in 2005. This blog has changed the entire landscape of social media with its constant cheer-leading of social media and related markets that have emerged. From a one-man writer blog t...