Hopefully, the Yahoo Experience in Arabic Won’t Include a “Maktoooooo-ooob!” Yodel
Online ad spending in the Middle East is expected to increase between 35 and 45 percent this year. Little wonder then that Yahoo is pushing hard into the market there. This morning, the company said it is acquiring Maktoob.com, an Arabic online portal that boasts some 16 million users.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Economic Crisis Drives Notebook “Rightsizing”
At first glance, the growth of the global personal computer market during the third quarter would seem to belie any notion of a vast economic downturn. Despite the financial crisis gripping Wall Street, PC shipments increased 15 percent from the third quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2008, according to Gartner.
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- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
- A Spectacular Cover of “Let It Be”
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
- Protect Insurance Companies PSA
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
