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Developing World Is a Profit Sink For Web Companies The NYTimes is running a piece on the dilemma faced by Web entrepreneurs, particularly in social media companies: the developing world is spiking traffic but not contributing much to revenues. The basic disconnect when Web 2.0 business models meet Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East is that countries there are not good prospects for the advertisers who pay the bills. 'Call it the International Paradox. Web companies that rely on advertising are enjoying some of their most vibrant growth in developing countries. But those are also the same places where it can be the most expensive to operate, since Web companies often need more servers to make content available to parts of the world with limited bandwidth. And in those countries, online display advertising is least likely to translate into results. ... Last year, Veoh, a video-sharing site operated from San Diego, decided to block its service from users in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, citing the dim prospects Slashdot2,000 Filipino war veterans got claims Close this BAGUIO CITY -- About 2,000 Filipino war veterans have received financial benefits for their service with the United States military during World War II, a US Embassy official said here on M... Canadastandard.comTech·Ed North America 2009: Only a Few Days Left to Register If you want to explore current and soon-to-be-released Microsoft technologies, including the Azure Services Platform, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual Studio 2008, and the upcoming Visual Studio 2010, visit our Web site and register today. MicrosoftUniversal Health Q1 profit rises 14 percent Operating acute care and behavioral health hospital, Universal Health Services Inc. said Monday its first quarter profit rose 14 percent despite slow in and out admissions patients. IB TimesTornado damages school, homes in Texas The National Weather Service says a tornado has damaged more than 20 buildings north of Austin, Texas. Meteorologist Chris Morris says 12 to 15 homes were among the structures damaged when the twister touched down west of Jonah in Williamson County early... SF GateMicrosoft Expands Online Services Globally Microsoft is making a major push in online services, expanding the availability of cloud-based versions of popular business applications such as Exchange, SharePoint and Live Meeting globally and increasing its data center capacity through a partnership with Hewlett-Packards EDS services division. - More than 4,000 solution providers are registered to sell Microsoft Online applications, and until today these services were only available in 19 countries. The partnership with EDS will provide Microsoft with access to data centers in local markets, pushing Microsoft Online delivery to local custom... eWEEKVerizon Q1 revenues up 11.6% on Alltel takeover (Telecompaper) US operator Verizon reported first-quarter revenues of USD 26.6 billion, up 11.6 percent from a year earlier helped by its takeover of mobile operator Alltel in January. On a pro forma basis, revenues rose 3.3 percent on continued growth at Verizon Wireless. EPS edged up to 58 cents a share from 57 a year ago. Free cash flow rose by USD 1.5 billion year-on-year to USD 2.7 billion, after the company lowered capex to USD 3.7 billion from USD 4.2 billion last year. Wireless revenues rose 29.6 percent to USD 15.1 billion, and operating profit was up 31.2 percent to USD 4.27 billion. Excluding Alltel, the company added a net 1.3 million new mobile customers in the quarter, for a total 86.6 million, up 28.8 percent from a year earlier. Service ARPU decreased 0.3 percent from the same period a year ago, to USD 50.74, while data ARPU was up 20.8 percent to USD 14.16. Wireline revenues dropped 3.8 percent to USD 11.6 billion, and operating profit fell to USD 691 million from USD DMeurope.comXperia X2 Mentioned By Skyhook It looks like Ted Morgon, the founder and CEO of Skyhook has accidentally revealed some certain details about the rumored Sony Ericsson Xperia X2. He said that the company 'had been trying to get Sony Ericsson’s business for location-based services on “the X2 edition of Sony Xperia phone (Windows Mobile-based)”', but they were no match to Google’s free service. That's all w... [These are short news! Click for details] CellazWindows 7 `Release Candidate` Due Next Week Members of Microsoft's technology subscription services to get the near-final Windows 7 build. InternetnewsCablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps nandemoari alerts us to news over at DSLReports that Cablevision will be offering subscribers 101-Mbps download service, a new US record. That's fast enough to download an HD movie in less than 10 minutes. The package, known as 'Ultra,' will launch on May 11 and will cost $99.95 a month. Upload speed is 15 Mbps and there are no monthly limits. Cablevision is also doubling the speed of its Wi-Fi service, which is available free to subscribers using hotspots across the Northeast. '...the company will be launching a new 'Ultra' tier on May 11. The new tier features speeds of 101Mbps downstream and 15Mbps upstream for $99.95 a month. That's an unprecedented amount of speed at an unprecedented price, suggesting that Cablevision just took the gloves off in their fight against Verizon FiOS. ... Cablevision spokesman Jim Maiella confirmed for me that the $99.95 price is unbundled, and the new tier does not come with any kind of a usage cap or overage fees.' of this story at Slashdot. Slashdot1 2 3 |
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Feedzilla is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic. It is a platform where webmasters and bloggers can find an unmatched selection of easy to use, automatically updating and professional news widgets for their sites. Feedzilla supports the building of widgets in various formats, as well as allowing the addition of news widgets to different blogging platforms and social networks.
Feedzilla manually aggregates news summaries found in RSS feeds, and redistributes them in either RSS format or as a news widget. Content is collected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from an ever-growing list of providers.
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