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By 2030 China will blow past America as the world’s largest economy and global power will shift decidedly in favor of Asia, a new report from the U.S. intelligence community forecasted on Monday. The prediction comes as the U.S. and Europe struggle to recover from the Great Recession but some emerging economies continue to grow at a far healthier pace. The National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends report concluded that by 2030 Asia will surpass North America and Europe combined in terms of global power, based on gross domestic product growth, population size, military spending and technological investment. Further, the report [...]

Research in Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry platform isn’t set for a refresh for another five or six months, and things are looking bleak in the interim. In the hugely important United States smartphone market, a recent report suggested BlackBerry’s usage share has plummeted over the past year to just 1% as of this past July.  See more tech stories on the Business Technology homepage Now, according to projections based on recent Statcounter data, WMPoweruser reports that Windows Phone’s installed base in the U.S. is on pace to overtake BlackBerry by the end of November — and that doesn’t even account for [...]