Yahoo Launches New Portal for Oz
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 …
Month: January 2006
Globalization Is Good for UPS
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 …
You Say Euro; I Say Eiro
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 …
Amazon: Now Serving 200+ Countries
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 …
Will China Build a Separate Internet?
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 …