With a billion strong mobile subscriber base and growing demand for 3G services, China presents Nokia with a huge opportunity to create a smartphone niche for itself.
Under that two-year program, 15 American artists are deployed to countries as far apart as China to Venezuela to connect with local arts groups and create participatory work.
In addition to providing critical capital and helping underwrite both healthy and faltering SOEs, the listings provide legitimacy for China's centrally planned economy and create a global constituency with a vested interest in ensuring that these companies not only survive, but prosper.