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According to Paid Content, Yahoo! has launched: Yahoo7, which is a joint venture between the Seven Network (TV) and Yahoo Australia and New Zealand, to take on Australia’s popular portal ninemsn (another TV/Web partnership). Yahoo7 will replace Yahoo’s Australia/New Zealand …
UPS just reported a very strong quarter. While US volume grew 6.2%, “internationally, average daily package volume rose 25.1% to 1.8 million a day. Export volume was again strong with a 15.4% increase reflecting significant gains across all regions of …
Latvia has “localized” the spelling of the euro to better fit its national language. Says this article… “The ‘eu’ diphthong is alien to the Latvian language. We don’t have such a sound, so we will use ‘eiro’,” Education Minister Ina …
Amazon gave out some highlights from 2005 Xmas season and it looks like they had a very good quarter. What jumped out at me was that they shipped products to more than 200 countries. Here’s the press release. I also …
China has been making a lot of noise lately about wanting “root” control over the Internet. That’s clearly not going to happen anytime soon, nor should it happen. But what if China simply decided one day to create a “Chinese …