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...spent $19.5 billion buying into global mining giant Rio Tinto (RTP). Rio needed the money to decrease its debt. There is speculation that China wanted to secure access to minerals. To that extent, the investment was a "strategic" one on China's part. The Australian government considered blocking the deal but did not. Perhaps debt-laden Rio made the case that it needed the money too much to help it through the economic downturn. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...first glance, the deal makes a lot of sense on the software side alone. Oracle scoops up a competitor MySQL, which is owned and run by a Sun subsidiary. It gets ownership of the Java platform, the write-once, run-anywhere programming language that Sun has increasingly made available as free, open-source software. Java, it turns out, is the platform that supports a suite of Oracle products, so being able to "own" it and direct its evolution gives the database company a critical advantage. Throw in Sun's Solaris Operating system, which powers millions of servers and workstations around...
...remain calm as leaders in Washington and Tehran test the waters of engagement, Lebanon can't have a separate peace of its own for long. So there's one more reason for Lebanese to fasten their seat belts: if the Obama administration can't pull off a regional peace deal, there may well be another civil...
...dealt with. But carbon is so global, so embedded in every aspect of modern life that it needs to be managed by the popularly elected governmental body meant to represent us all: Congress. "This is an enormous shift, and we need to get together as a nation to deal with it," says Maggie Fox, CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection. "That's what a democracy is about...
...before, which is something psychologists call the “mere exposure effect.” The frequency of contact consumers have with a product also plays a role. If Delta Air Lines announces a new design for its signs and logos, it’s not a huge deal because people only fly infrequently. On the other hand, when customers use a product every day, the effects of a redesign can be jarring...