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		<title>Economist Front Cover</title>
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		<title>Gaming the Adsense Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you develop or publish web-based games you can become a beta user of AdSense for Games, by displaying video ads, image ads, or text ads within your online games to earn revenue. You&#8217;ll be able to show these ads in placements you define.
Google will sell in-game ad placements directly to top brand advertisers as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/news-of-the-day/gaming-the-adsense-game/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo! ad revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! ad revolution is the most important new from a financial aspect in the internet sector for today.
Yahoo upgraded its online advertising system today with extra help from its newspaper partners in an effort to survive in a very competitive market. Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang introduced the new advertising platform for publishers claiming that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/internet/yahoo-ad-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Adwords = yahoo ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! might announce an agreement to display search ads from Google.
Yahoo! has been pursuing a broad agreement to carry search ads from Google, which it views as a way to boost its cash flow and bolster its claim to shareholders that it is worth more than Microsoft has offered. Such an agreement could still go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/adwords-yahoo-ads/</link>
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		<title>Second Life profitable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Second Life profitable?
Linden Lab is a privatelly held company and this makes it difficult to answer if they succeeded to make Second Life profitable yet. We explored in the past the  Second Life economics but it&#8217;s time to have an update on Linden Lab and Second Life 2008 financial situation.
Linden Lab original funding
Linden Lab is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft adCenter responds to Adwords and Yahoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft (MSN) adCenter adds ad technology
Microsoft&#8217;s latest acquisition of ad technology firm Rapt follows on the heels of Google formally closing its DoubleClick acquisition, underscoring the search giant&#8217;s own ambitious push into display advertising. The ad technology deal strengthens Microsoft adCenter&#8217;s (formerly MSN adCenter) set of ad business tools for Web advertisers and publishers.
Microsoft and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/microsoft-adcenter-responds-to-adwords-and-yahoo/</link>
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		<title>Revver + LiveUniverse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Revver Acquired by LiveUniverse
Online-video company Revver Inc., has been sold to online-entertainment network LiveUniverse for less than $5 million. Revver was one of the first video-sharing sites to tout the fact that it shared ad revenue with video creators. Revver does that by attaching advertising to user-submitted video clips. All ad revenue 50/50 with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/internet/revver-liveuniverse/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo is better than Google Adwords and MSN adCenter for advertisers and investors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bear Stearns (a worldwide investment banking and securities trading and brokerage firm) published a financial report today for Yahoo!, citing recent comments from advertising agencies.  According to the report, the advertisers agreed that Yahoo&#8217;s new ad system, codenamed Panama, performs better than Google&#8217;s Adword and MSN&#8217;s adCenter. Points that distinguish Yahoo&#8217;s system are:

Ease of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/internet/yahoo-is-better-than-google-adwords-and-msn-adcenter-for-advertisers-and-investors/</link>
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		<title>Second Life is still collapsing and why big companies might abandon that world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Huge list of problems announced by Linden Lab on the Second Life blog. Last weeks' software update, that creates the virtual world on users' computers caused many problems and left users unable to access the system. Obviously, this effects Second Life's economy and Linden Lab's future as a viable business.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/second-life-is-still-collapsing-and-why-big-companies-might-abandon-that-world/</link>
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		<title>Why Second Life is collapsing and Lidnen Lab can not do anything about it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Second Life”, the online virtual community, is experiencing an amazing growth of subscribers, almost doubling every two months. In the beginning of 2006 there were 100,000 subscribers, by October 2006 it reached 1 million and two months later, December 2006 it is about to reach 2 million subscribers. This rate increased dramatically the last two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/why-second-life-is-collapsing-and-lidnen-lab-can-not-do-anything-about-it/</link>
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		<title>How to build a Second Life universe and make it successful and profitable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Second Life is in the news today (Tuesday December 5th, 2006) due to a series of problems that it had because of its popularity. This is the recipe of success:
Hardware:
The world of Second Life is create by many small worlds all linked to similar neighbouring worlds. Each server can host up to 4 of these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/how-to-build-a-second-life-universe-and-make-it-successful-and-profitable/</link>
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		<title>Amazon prints on demand and takes competition out of business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon is expanding it&#8217;s services on the books-on-demand market in order to increase revenue by eliminating out-of-print commercial titles. Already Amazon has a huge digital archive of books that is uses at its &#8220;Search Inside the Book&#8221; technology and very well established partnerships with publishers. This gives Amazon two significant advantages against its competitors:

Amazon will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/amazon-prints-on-demand-and-takes-competition-out-of-business/</link>
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		<title>Server market changes, competitors receive Microsoft code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 23rd of November 2006, Microsoft avoided an immediate daily penalty of up to $3.8 million when it submitted 8500 pages of documentation of Windows server APIs to the European Commission antitrust department only hours before the latest deadline.
Commission lawyers, potential licenses and Neil Barrett, a British computer professor and Microsoft’s monitoring trustee, will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/server-market-changes-competitors-receive-microsoft-code/</link>
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		<title>EC vs. Microsoft, an economic and political dispute (2004-2006):</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2004: The war starts
One of the main reasons that the European Commission started looking into this issue is the changes in the server market that occurred during the end of the 90’s. Microsoft’s Active Directory proprietary technology preinstalled in all its desktop operating systems allowed them to work better with Microsoft Server while other similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/ec-vs-microsoft-an-economic-and-political-dispute-2004-2006/</link>
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