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Surging investment by Chinese companies in U.S. research labs is yielding a fast-growing trove of patents, part of a push to mine America for ideas to help China shift from being the world’s factory floor to a driver of innovation. Largely absent from American research hubs a decade ago, Chinese firms including Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) and ZTE Corp are now using U.S. researchers to create patents ranging from new software to internet infrastructure, according to an analysis of Thomson Reuters’ global intellectual property database.

ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke to the leaders of Germany, France and the European Commission by phone on Sunday in an attempt to break the deadlock over a cash-for-reforms deal as time runs out to save Greece from bankruptcy. After months of wrangling and with anxious depositors pulling billions of euros out of Greek banks, Tsipras’s leftist government has signaled a willingness to make concessions in order to unlock 7.2 billion euros in bailout money.

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Update: the farce must go on because according to Bloomberg the “final final” Greek proposal never made it, and was, ahem, lost in tranmission: EU HAS RECEIVED NO NEW PROPOSAL FROM GREECE YET: EU DIPLOMAT – BLOOMBERG

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The java giant now has homes at all four of Disney’s theme parks in Florida.

I thought the following observation was sort of related to my recent posts on CommodityAmerica and InfoAmerica. (This from the FT):

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China has rejected Gilead Sciences’ Sovaldi patent application.

Ford’s sales in the U.S. provide huge annual profits. Its sales in Europe represent the largest headwind for profits, and sales in China could represent the future. What do current sales in those markets tell Ford investors?