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...
Amazon has launched a its own Social Gaming portal with a view to gain a piece of the Pie which for long has been on the table on Zynga . Zynga has been the maker and creator of hit Facebook games like Farmville and CityVille. Amazon has seen the potential in social gaming and its popularity that is on the rise and have decided that in addition to selling games they will now have their own gaming center and it is being called Amazon Game Studios. The first game that has been launched is being called 'Living Classics'. The game also has a Facebook fan page to go with it and you can now play the game on Facebook here . The game Living Classics is a moving objects game and you would need to solve moving object puzzles, explore illustrations of classic stories and reunite families of cartoon foxes. In the first puzzle users would need to Alice has a big problem. She has shrunk to the size of an insenct and to help solve the problem you would need to click on moving objects. It is...