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Inditex 2011 Net Income Rises 12% on Asian, Online Expansion
You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com Inditex SA (ITX), the world’s largest clothing retailer, reported profit growth that beat analysts’ estimates as sales were boosted by store openings in Asia and the expansion of its e-commerce range. Net income increased 12 percent to 1.93 billion euros ($2.56 billion) in the 12 [...]
Russia’s Online Democracy
BY MATTHEW KAMINSKI Moscow Ilya Yashin twists the laptop around to show his latest creation, a 90-second video sketch in which he plays a roughed-up prisoner in police custody. This piece of political satire has been viewed over 130,000 times on YouTube and on his popular blog. The 28-year-old activist has made a career of [...]
Mobile Internet Access—No Strings Attached
Everyone loves a good comeback story, and the tech community has had some dramatic ones, from Apple’s historic resurrection to Nintendo’s Wii-fueled revival. Enter NetZero, which first made a splash over 10 years ago offering free dial-up access in exchange for watching ads. NetZero, most famous for offering free dial-up internet access more than a [...]
Comics Are Now Selling Laughs by the Download
A handful of top-tier performers have begun producing stand-up specials on their own, posting them online and selling them directly through their personal Web sites, eliminating the editorial control of broadcasters and the perceived taint of corporate endorsements. While this straight-to-the-Internet strategy is far from ubiquitous in stand-up, it is already having a profound impact [...]
Akamai takes aim at mobile content for acceleration
Akamai Technologies is extending the reach of its data acceleration services to better address mobile Internet use and the delivery of content from within an enterprise data center to employees or partners in the field. With the Aqua Mobile Accelerator service and Terra Alta, a system for enterprises, Akamai is building on its existing lineup [...]
Online Strategies of Banking and Insurance Companies in the BRIC Countries
NEW YORK, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Online Strategies of Banking and Insurance Companies in the BRIC Countries http://www.reportlinker.com/p0799478/Online-Strategies-of-Banking-and-Insurance-Companies-in-the-BRIC-Countries.html #utm_source=prnewswireutm_medium=prutm_campaign=Insurance Synopsis The report provides top-level market analysis, information and insights, including:- In-depth analysis of the online strategies adopted by banking [...]
Docs ask out patients online; some get reported
CHICAGO — New research suggests doctors are contacting patients on Internet dating sites and engaging in other unprofessional online behavior – and sometimes getting caught. That’s according to a survey of most state medical boards that license and discipline doctors. Most boards said they’d received at least one complaint about unprofessional online behavior; 25 percent [...]
NetZero to launch free wireless broadband service
By PETER SVENSSON NEW YORK It’s like the `90s never left: Billy Crystal hosted the Oscars. Internet IPOs are back. And NetZero is returning with free Internet service –only this time it’s wireless. United Online Inc. announced Monday that it will offer free wireless Internet service under its NetZero brand, the one that started the [...]
SA’s Internet economy to double
Although SA’s Internet economy is predicted to double, it is growing at a slower pace than other emerging markets. South Africa’s Internet economy is expected to leap from being worth R51 billion in 2010 to R103 billion in 2016, according to a new report from the Boston Consulting Group. Currently, online shopping accounts for about [...]
Einstein online: Internet archive offers window into physicist’s life and work
<!– Share Email Print –> Tweet Share Email Print Einstein online: Internet archive offers window into physicist’s life and work By Linda Gradstein · March 20, 2012 Photos 1 out of 1 Other Media An online archive of documents related to Albert Einstein, pictured here at his home in Princeton, N.J., in 1949, has recently [...]
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