Strategic Partnership

Last year, media search platform Pixsy was in the news for forming a strategic partnership with Veoh , which would let the company play Pixsy videos directly in the page with the help of Pixsy's new embed feature. Realizing the value of that, Pixsy will unveil a new service called Video Search Playback, that will open its embed feature to any company that asks for permission to use it. By sending an email to Pixsy asking to use its embed feature, website publishers can embed Pixsy videos into their sites, opening them up to the...

NEW DELHI — If the soaring rhetoric of their burgeoning partnership is to be believed, India is the linchpin of Washington's strategic pivot toward Asia. But it has become apparent that New Delhi is ambivalent about playing a leading role in Washington's new "rebalancing" act. So much so that some U.S. analysts are questioning whether India will ever be a dependable strategic partner for the United States, and whether New Delhi will ever match its global ambitions with a leadership role on the...

Royalty Share , the digital royalty manager that recently took funding from William Morris , has acquired Broad Street Digital, a unit of Arbinet. Broad Street Digital is the developer of RightsRouter , a platform for distributing and licensing digital content. Along with the acquisition, Royalty Share has entered into a strategic partnership with Arbinet (a developer of voice and IP services) to pursue opportunities that serve "the rapid convergence of the telecommunications...

NEW DELHI — The economic relationship between the world's two largest democracies, the United States and India, is supposed to be the bedrock for what President Obama calls "one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century," but cracks are starting to appear. India's delay in delivering promised economic reforms and its reluctance to open up its markets to U.S. companies such as Wal-Mart, together with a much tougher visa regime for Indians seeking to work in the United States, has infuriated the private...

CAIRO, Sept. 26 -- Turkish warplanes crossed the border into northern Iraqi airspace to bomb 16 Kurdish rebel sites, a spokesman for Turkey's military said Friday. There were no reports of any deaths in the air attacks, which occurred late Thursday night. The airstrikes targeted Kurdish rebel positions on Qandil mountain, at Iraq's border with Iran , Brig. Gen. Metin Gurak told reporters in Ankara, Turkey's capital. Ahmed Deniz, a spokesman for Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, told wire services the...

NEW DELHI — The economic relationship between the world's two largest democracies, the United States and India, is supposed to be the bedrock for what President Obama calls "one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century," but cracks are starting to appear. India's delay in delivering promised economic reforms and its reluctance to open up its markets to U.S. companies such as Wal-Mart, together with a much tougher visa regime for Indians seeking to work in the United States, has infuriated...

KABUL — President Hamid Karzai set the conditions for his country's strategic partnership with the United States on Wednesday, saying that Afghanistan would allow long-term U.S. bases here as long as American troops stop conducting operations at night, searching homes and detaining Afghans. Karzai's comments came at the opening of a large assembly, known as a loya jirga , that drew more than 2,000 delegates from across the country to discuss Afghanistan's future relationship with the...

KABUL — The United States and Afghanistan signed a deal on night military operations on Sunday, resolving a major source of friction between President Hamid Karzai and Washington. The agreement removes a key obstacle to a long-term strategic partnership between the two countries, including a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014, when all foreign combat troops are set to leave the country. Karzai, who has led Afghanistan since U.S.-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001,...

South Korea's SK Telecom ( NYSE: SKM ) is in talks to buy Sprint Nextel , the third-largest U.S. carrier, according to CNBC, Reuters reports . The report did not name any sources for the story, but said a deal between the companies would be friendly and that it would be the biggest takeover of a U.S. company by a South Korean company. Sprint Nextel's shares rose almost 14 percent after the report was aired. Sprint declined to comment and SK was unavailable for comment. Most recently,...

B arack Obama was a principled opponent of the Iraq war from its beginning. But when he became president in January 2009, he was handed a war that was won. The surge had succeeded. Al-Qaeda in Iraq had been routed, driven to humiliating defeat by an Anbar Awakening of Sunnis fighting side-by-side with the infidel Americans. Even more remarkably, the Shiite militias had been taken down, with U.S. backing, by the forces of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. They crushed the Sadr militias from Basra to Sadr City.

KABUL — With the signing of the "strategic partnership agreement" Tuesday during a surprise visit by President Obama , the United States entered perhaps the most complicated phase of its decade-long war in Afghanistan — a chapter that will include both the ongoing withdrawal of U.S. troops and a more precise articulation of the United States' long-term presence here. The accord signed by Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledges American financial and military support beyond 2014, when...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Parliament unanimously demanded Thursday that the United States end its long campaign of drone strikes inside Pakistani territory, a vital component of the Obama administration's strategy against al-Qaeda and other militant groups. But lawmakers, acting after weeks of fractious debate, tacitly allowed the passage of oil, food and other nonlethal goods across the country's borders to supply NATO troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistan has barred NATO convoys for several months in...

KABUL — The United States and Afghanistan signed a deal on night military operations on Sunday, resolving a major source of friction between President Hamid Karzai and Washington. The agreement removes a key obstacle to a long-term strategic partnership between the two countries, including a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014, when all foreign combat troops are set to leave the country. Karzai, who has led Afghanistan since U.S.-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001, has...

KABUL — One week after four French troops were killed by a rogue Afghan soldier, prompting President Nicolas Sarkozy to suspend military operations in Afghanistan, France will sign a bilateral agreement outlining its commitment here over the next two decades. French troops will continue to train their Afghan counterparts well beyond 2014, when combat operations are due to conclude, according to the agreement described by Afghan and French officials. Afghan President...

KABUL — A four-day gathering of Afghan leaders ended Saturday with delegates backing President Hamid Karzai's desire for a long-term security partnership with the United States that would not allow U.S. troops to conduct night raids or search Afghan homes. The resolution that emerged from the assembly, known as a loya jirga , called for Afghanistan to negotiate a strategic partnership that places strict limits on U.S. troops who might remain in the country after 2014, when Afghan forces are...

AFGHAN PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai kicked off his traditional loya jirga assembly in Kabul on Wednesday with another populist demand at the expense of the United States: House searches and night raids by U.S. and other NATO forces must cease. His bravado may have disguised — perhaps intentionally — the fact that Mr. Karzai is attempting to use the assembly to do both himself and the United States a considerable political favor. Let's hope he succeeds. The Afghan president is...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Parliament unanimously demanded Thursday that the United States end its long campaign of drone strikes inside Pakistani territory, a vital component of the Obama administration's strategy against al-Qaeda and other militant groups. But lawmakers, acting after weeks of fractious debate, tacitly allowed the passage of oil, food and other nonlethal goods across the country's borders to supply NATO troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistan has barred NATO convoys for several months in retaliation for...

NEW DELHI — If the soaring rhetoric of their burgeoning partnership is to be believed, India is the linchpin of Washington's strategic pivot toward Asia. But it has become apparent that New Delhi is ambivalent about playing a leading role in Washington's new "rebalancing" act. So much so that some U.S. analysts are questioning whether India will ever be a dependable strategic partner for the United States, and whether New Delhi will ever match its global ambitions with a leadership...

KABUL — President Hamid Karzai set the conditions for his country's strategic partnership with the United States on Wednesday, saying that Afghanistan would allow long-term U.S. bases here as long as American troops stop conducting operations at night, searching homes and detaining Afghans. Karzai's comments came at the opening of a large assembly, known as a loya jirga , that drew more than 2,000 delegates from across the country to discuss Afghanistan's future relationship with the United States ...

KABUL — The Afghan government will convene more than 2,000 Afghans from across the country this week to debate the country's future relationship with the United States , a gathering that has drawn criticism from a skeptical political opposition that describes the process as antiquated and illegitimate. The traditional Afghan meeting, known as a loya jirga, will begin Wednesday under a tent in Kabul, with the intention of soliciting Afghan input on President Hamid Karzai's...