There is criticism that Chinese investment in natural resources has made it increasingly difficult for African states to diversify their economies (Rebol 2010: 3526-7).

The two US-based companies will combine StreamCast's Morpheus 2.0 peer-to-peer distribution system, which distributes content such as audio, video, data and applications over the Internet without the need for centralised servers, with REBOL's X Internet operating system technology.

Carl Sassenrath founded Rebol Technologies, a programming language company, in Vichy Springs, a mineral bath resort about two hours north of San Francisco.

Start-up, Rebol Technologies Inc is set to announce the first commercial version of the Rebol messaging language today (Monday).