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A wiki is simply a great tool and one of the best examples of user generated content. After web 2.0 kicked off wikis had an astonishing success as people felt that the collective knowledge of the people is much better and also found it very useful. Wiki Invest is one such wiki which has the main focus on Investing and it is a good resource for all those in the investing arena. It has many well researched articles about various companies and provides in depth information with ample charts there by making it very easy for the investor community.

I guess every one would have had a coffee at star bucks or at least heard about it. It is one of the most powerful brands in the world and i checked out the article about research on Starbucks and it has a lot of interesting information. If you want to know what is going good and what is bad about the company then the ‘bulls and bears column would be very useful. Little did i know that Star bucks is having stiff competition from the fast food giant McDonald’s. The article throws light on various issues and also the charts provide good information at the first glance. I did learn that starbucks has opened nearly 14000 outlets in the year of 2006 alone and has a presence in 37 countries across the world. The related articles and the company ticker also are very helpful.

Today was a good day for the Apple share holders and i had a nice upward move of more than 3.5%. The reason was the speech given by the Apple COO Tim Cook at tech conference in Las Vegas. In his speech Cook has mentioned some facts about the Iphone and some of its future plans. it is targeted to sell 10 million Iphones in 2008!

“An iPhone software road map”- sounds interesting! Application development for the Iphone has not been that great and Apple has not released the software development kit as of now. On March 6 apple has arranged for a town hall kind of meeting where they will be discussing about the development along with the invitees. The point is whether the SDK will be released or not is still doubtful.

This has been the talk of the day and many sites have reported that the paid clicks from Google have gone down. Many analysts have reported that the slowing economy is also affecting the search industry and the big question is will this have direct effect on Google’s revenue. we may all recall that Google reported revenues of over 30% year on year earlier.

It keeps happening all the time and now the Pakistan Telecommunication authority has cited that a Dutch video has some objectionable content which is against the religion and the Quran. Incidentally Pakistan has banned the Youtube site in teh whiole of the country. An official request has been sent by the PTA to Youtube.

Over the year the social networks witnessed great amounts of traffic but towards the end and the dawn of the new year the traffic started dipping and this month Facebook has lost a considerable number of hits. Many have described that it has started plateauing and this is really a bad state. almost 5% of the traffic has fallen according to reports.

The Japanese are going ahead and yesterday they have launched a satellite which will bring in super speed internet with the help of a small dish receiver. A joint venture between Japanese Aerospace agency and Mitsubishi it will bring in speeds in the range of 1.2 Gigabytes per second which is simply awesome.

It is one of the big nightmares for the companies who advertise online. Click fraud is the act of clicking on the ad which are not real. this in turn produces illegal revenue for the publishers. There are even companies which work for doing click fraud and this has led to a steady rise and it is up by 16%. India, Germany and south korea have been quoted as the hot regions of click fraud

The worst ever thing Microsoft could have done is to place a bid for Yahoo. After Yahoo rejected the offer of acquisition from Microsoft it got sued by a few people and now it is from some of the Yahoo share holders. A couple of public pension funds from Detroit has accused Yahoo for not properly responding to the bid!!

Wow! the number is astonishing! Firefox is becoming the people’s favorite and is taking a good share of the internet. the number of users has been on teh steady rise and this number is definitely remarkable. More and more people are shifting to it from IE and as a celebration they are joining hands with Free Rice and donating 500 million grains of rice!