Euro-Zone vs. Greater China…

The euro zone's economic downturn deepened this month, even before Cyprus' bailout troubles, but China's factories took a completely different path and moved up.

The euro zone survey results will add to more obstacles for policymakers in Euro area to revive the common currency (Euro) and now to deal with the potential default of one of its members.

Data also showed leading economy Germany with signs of fatigue where the German economy release its report yesterday to show that the Manufacturing PMI indicator has dropped to 48.9. The PMI indicator, It's a leading indicator of economic health - businesses react quickly to market conditions, and their purchasing managers hold perhaps the most current and relevant insight into the company's view of the economy.

On the other hand, French businesses turned in their worst performance in four years, probably plunging the euro zone's second-biggest economy into a recession.

Moving to the Greater China, China showed positive signs during the last period, where factories increased their pace after the previous drop, pointing towards solid but not spectacular first-quarter growth in the world's second-largest economy

The Chinese PMI for March revived to 51.7 in March from 50.4 in February, but remained below a two-year high of 52.3 reached at the beginning of the year.

Microsoft vs Google vs Apple

The world’s leading tech companies are advancing at an incredible rate, with new operating system platforms, great new devices, gadgets and new cloud services that connect everything together.

Microsoft:

Microsoft provides its new operating system that calls Windows 8 operating system - greatly redesigned for touch screen is entering the mobile device business on a huge door. Its first ever owned tablet is on the way, amazing Windows 8 based Smartphone’s like Nokia Lumia launched, the Xbox great innovations, revitalized & richer app store… New MS Office coming early 2013.

Google

Google finally has the hardware that can support its cloud domination. With amazing new versions of Android OS running the world’s best Smartphone’s & Tab’s such as Samsung Galaxy S3 & Note 2, Samsung Note 10.1 & Nexus 7, its overrunning Apple’s inventory at a very fast rate. Google estimated that its app store has a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month! Impressive.

Apple

2012 has been a great year for Apple. Ipad is still the leading tablet, Macbook Air still the slickest laptop and OSX the most refined computer operating system. IPhone might’ve fallen from the top spot for a while, but we are just witnessing a major come back with Iphone 5 and iOS6. Most recent reports say that in 2013 Apple will introduce its first TV.