In this morning’s top story, Red flag flying over LinuxWorld expo, my colleague Neil McAllister recounts a sales pitch he attended at the show that was designed to convince reporters that Beijing is “Asia’s Linux Capital.” McAllister collected some interesting facts on Beijing at the show: Beijing is now home to some 150,000 software development facilities, serving about 5,500 software and IT service industry companies. In 2004, software development was a $6.4 billion industry in Beijing, the result of an annual growth of roughly 30 percent since the year 2000. Exports currently account for $227 million of that figure.China is certainly landing in a lot of tech-related headlines recently. The New York Times this morning ran a story about Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba.com, which Yahoo turned over $1.7 billion to in what some are calling the largest Internet investment made to date in China. China gripped by Internet revival looks at the growing interest in China among U.S. venture capitalists. Further proving that interest, Intel this morning announced that its VC arm invested undisclosed amounts in a semiconductor design firm, a chip maker and a broadband entertainment company. Technology Industry