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...
Just released on Apple's iTunes fan page on Facebook is the iTunes Gifts . The deal is pretty straight forward . The options are 1. Create an iTunes gift for a friend 2. Set an electronic date today or later 3. Friend receives the Gift which can be redeemed immediately from the iTunes store The price ranges from $5 to 4 50 Found on TechCrunch " GroupCard built the application front end, but they aren't actually listed on it. That's because the processor of the gift cards is the Gift Card Mall (part of Blackhawk Network , which specializes in pre-paid cards). Apple, Blackhawk, and GroupCard worked in tandem to launch the new feature. Update : Blackhawk powers the backend of the application through its API. The company has a longstanding relationship with Apple, which is why Apple chose it to power the Gift Card application on its iTunes page. An original post by Sociolatte