Friday, April 16, 2010
about internet business
A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com or dot com), is a company that does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website that uses the popular top-level domain, ".com" (in turn derived from the word "commercial").
While the term can refer to present-day companies, it is also used specifically to refer to companies with this business model that came into being during the late 1990s. Many such startups were formed to take advantage of the surplus of venture capital funding. Many were launched with very thin business plans, sometimes with nothing more than an idea and a catchy name. The stated goal was often to "get big fast", i.e. to capture a majority share of whatever market was being entered. The exit strategy usually included an IPO and a large payoff for the founders. Others were existing companies that re-styled themselves as Internet companies, many of them legally changing their names to incorporate a .com suffix.
With the stock market crash around the year 2000 that ended the dot-com bubble, many failed and failing dot-com companies were referred to punningly as dot-bombs,dot-cons or dot-gones. Many of the surviving firms dropped the .com suffix from their names.
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.
Most traditional communications media, such as telephone and television services, are reshaped or redefined using the technologies of the Internet, giving rise to services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and IPTV. Newspaper publishing has been reshaped into Web sites, blogging, and web feeds. The Internet has enabled or accelerated the creation of new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking sites.
The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. This research and a period of civilian funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s, and resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2009, an estimated quarter of Earth's population uses the services of the Internet.
The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own standards. Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6) is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.
Internet business in nepal
Although through 2005 less than 1 percent of Nepal's population used the Internet, use of the internet in Nepal is growing rapidly. This is the result of a competitive internet service provider (ISP) market and low Internet access prices. Thirty-one private ISPs offer internet access to businesses and consumers, though two, Worldlink and Mercantile, dominate the market with a combined share of more than 70 percent. Cyber cafés are important sources of Internet access for Nepalis; the country is believed to have the highest concentration of cybercafés in the world. Much of Nepal's internet access is concentrated in the more-developed Katmandu Valley region, as the mountainous terrain and low income in remote regions of the country make access more difficult. However, one effort to bring Internet access to rural populations—the Nepali Wireless Networking Project—has already wirelessly connected seven remote mountain villages to the Internet, with plans to network twenty-one villages in all.
Although relatively few Nepalis presently get their news from the Internet, it has nevertheless become an important source of independent news in Nepal. When King Gyanendra assumed authoritarian control in 2005, for example, traditional media were either shut down or heavily censored to ensure the publication of only favorable news about the monarch. Nepali bloggers became an important political voice and source of information to the world about the situation unfolding inside the country.
Internet Business Unit of Europe
Bulgaria
- Novinitepro.bg General news website
- Ring.bg Sports news website
- Tv2.bg Website with simple video features
Croatia
- Dnevnik.hr News website
- NovaTV.hr Microsites for TV shows
- Moja Mini TV content site for children
- Farma Microsite with reality show features
- Blog.hr Blog website
- Gle.to Youtube.com-like portal
- Zadovoljna Women microsite
Czech Republic
- TN.cz General news website
- TVnova.cz Catch up TV, with program micro sites
- Novacinema Marketing website
- Blog.cz Blog website
- Jyxo.cz Search engine
- Galerie.cz Photo sharing
Slovakia
- TVNoviny.sk News website
- Markiza.sk Catch-up TV features
- doma.markiza.sk Catch-up TV features
Slovenia
- 24ur.com News website with social networking
- Zadovoljna.si Women magazine website
- Popotovanje.si Tourism website
- Bibaleze.si Parenting website
- Cekin.si Financial website
- Vizita.si Health website
- Golfportal Golf website
- Poptv.si Catch up website
- Maxtv.si Online TV channel
- RBD.si Website for RBD music group
- Moskisvet.com Modern men lifestyle
Romania
- StirileproTV.ro News website
- Sport.ro Sports website with social networking
- Infopro.ro General news website
- MTV.ro Music website
- ProTV.ro ProTV channel with 7 microsites & catch-up TV
- AcasaTV.ro 4 microsites, catch-up TV features
- ProTVintl.ro ProTV International with social networking
- ProFM.ro Radio station with news & 18 music online streams
- Conquiztador.ro Quiz game website with social networking
- Kombat.ro Dedicated fighting microsite
- Perfecte.ro Woman variety and trend website
Ukraine
- TSN.ua News website
- Pro Eto Adult medical news website
Saturday, April 10, 2010
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and unitary state consisting of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.[14] It is governed by a parliamentary system with its seat of government in London, the capital, but with three devolved national administrations of varying powers[15][16] in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland respectively. The Channel Island bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man are Crown Dependencies, which means they are constitutionally tied to the British monarch but are not part of the UK.[17] The UK has fourteen overseas territories,[18] all remnants of the British Empire, which at its height in 1922 encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface, the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies.
The UK is a developed country, with the world's sixth largest economy by nominal GDP[6] and the sixth largest by purchasing power parity.[4] It was the world's first industrialised country[19] and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries,[20] but the economic and social cost of two world wars and the decline of its empire in the latter half of the 20th century diminished its leading role in global affairs. The UK nevertheless remains a major power with strong economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence. It is a recognised nuclear weapons state and has the fourth highest defence spending in the world.[21] It is a Member State of the European Union, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, G8, G20, NATO, OECD, and the World Trade Organization.