Advantage Online!

As per the latest survey by a German news agency ,South Koreans are the highest internet users in the world followed by United States and Germany.Not far behind are the Indians and the Chinese with a potential user base of 300 million.
Following these developments the online advertisers like Google and Yahoo are not far behind with yearly revenues of around 10 billion US between them.Others not far behind are Bidadvertiser and Commision junction with a huge base in US.Other companies except Google are yet to catch up in the rest of the World.Internet has revolutionized the online revenue sources.A famous marketing guru said “if you are not online,u don’t exist”.How has internet media captured the imagination with youtube and others is already a case study in itself.People are candid and informative on the net and treat it as their home turf.
Students and housewives are making considerable money posting content online.They creativity is coming out!However there is some negative aspects like porn and drugs which are also advertised freely on the net.Internet has redefined the media forcing the major TV channels to keep a healthy presence on the net.

Internet telephony has brought so many distant people together with skype revolutionized this sector forcing major telecom companies to slash their prices by one tenth.Advertising companies like bidadvertisers and commission junction are growing by leaps and bounds and may offer stiff competition to Google in the coming times.As my friend Sam is making good money giving space to bidadvertiser on his content pages.


The major advantage of advertising on the net is the cost and reach.These advertisements reach to internet users on a personal basis.The advertiser gets instant feedback using analytical tools about the geo location of the user.On the TV channels and print media this feedback is poor.On the net the advertiser can even target an area or language group!

Clash of the Online titans

Clash of the Titans

Even as the verdict has to be taken on whether a Microsoft-Yahoo deal woll redo the online space,the story gets murkier.Yahoo has been tagged at US$44 billion by Microsoft
Pundits.yahoo wants to take its time and is welcoming bids from rival to push up the price.
Rumour is that Yahoo’s financial advisors,golman sachs and Lehman Brothers are looking for potential bidders who can outbid Microsoft .Research firm Gartner thinks if they get together it shall be mutually beneficial for both.However only few very cash rich companies can afford to play this bidding game in today’s world.Microsoft and Yahoo are eaders in their own domain, and if they come together can give tough competition to Google who has a monopoly in search engine technology.
Google has hit back thru its official blog stating that if this deal goes thru than the future of internet is at stake.Talking of monopoly many users of Google have felt lately that Google has become arrogant .Many users had complaint about gmail malfunctioning and Google did not pay any heed and was not interested in user feedback-this was rumoured.

Google has 5% stake in AOL Time Warner and may coax them to bid for yahoo as it is very careful about anti trust scrutiny.However before all this drama,yahoo has been negotiating with Google but the negotiations fell thru because of differences over online revenue sharing.If they would have agreed,than Yahoo most probably would have outsourced its searches and webservices to google meanwhile itself focusing on its strength eg:mobile application,social networking and content sharing.
Many other companies like AT&T,Comcast,Verizon have been interested in yahoo too but so far not was able to outbid Microsoft.
There are two options left for Yahoo,either to sell its stake in “Yahoo music unlimited” and “auctions” to boost revenue or chalk out a mutually beneficial deal with Google.
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European Revolution

Always expect something better from the finnish.The  finnish and their neighbour Estonia is producing revolutions in telecome sector.First It was nokia and now its Skype.com who have totaly revolutionised the way people talk with each other.No wonder both Finnish and the Estonian economies are considered the most liberal amongst the world economies.

Two years ago skype offered their softwere downloag free of any charge because of which people seperated with geographical boundries could talk to each other free of charge in a voice quality which is even much superior to any other provider.Off course now google has some up with googletalk but skype were the initiators.Even Linux was develped by a finnish gentelmen named Linius(i may have misppelled it).Even google had a European Touch to it as one of its founder Sergey Bin was born in Moscow.
SAP another IT giant is of German origin.They produced the first ERP softwere thereby adding value to administering data.
However I am still surprised that the web domain .eu is still not popular.There are the Amazon bookstore and Ebay auction house with some european hand in it.Finland,Estonia and small european countries accounts for maximum people online per 1000 people anytime.May be its the weather!