TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Great Satan still sells in Iran.
Even after decades of diplomatic estrangement and tightening economic sanctions, American products manage to find their way into the Iranian marketplace. The routes are varied: back channel exporters, licensing workarounds and straightforward trade for goods not covered by the U.S. embargoes over Iran's nuclear program.
While a team of Microsoft researchers in China investigating were investigating the sale of counterfeit software, they became introduced to a malware called Nitol.
The extended absence of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, just weeks before he is expected to be named China's top leader, is nothing new in the Communist Party's opaque, secretive political culture.