This BusinessWeek article may just mean a lot more than you think. The next huge market for the search engines is mobile and while Yahoo has always been the largest portal / email system in Japan, now it looks like Google is poised to take over the mobile market.

Leave it to Google to know where the opportunities are.

Intel gets U.S. nod to build plant in China

I don't know about you, but the last time I checked geopolitics and geobusiness didn't mix. In fact, at least with the current American administration, mixing these two usually results in disaster. Here's a Washington Post story you might want to read. It's on a much smaller scale than the IBM deal, but with a similar outcome; ridding Americans of jobs while producing undesirable, unpredictable results.