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REITs: A new contender in the ring of investments

2011-11-20T02:01:00.001-08:00

REITs in the country have grown both in depth and breadth since 2005, with high-quality REITs being well positioned to maintain popularity as an attractive defensive asset during volatile times. REITs are now gaining prominence as the new ‘challenger’ in investment circles.

In the rat race to increase net worth, individuals are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to create wealth through investments.

With a projected growth of between five to six per cent for Malaysia in 2012, coupled with the rising disposable income of the country’s population and rapid urbanisation, investors are getting more savvy in terms of searching for investment options.

Many pursue unit trusts, stocks, commodities, fixed deposits, hedge funds and so on, injecting monies with an expectation of gain after a thorough analysis of these products.

In fact, it is generally well known that the biggest asset class the average Malaysian invests in his or her lifetime is in properties.

However, all that has changed with the introduction of a different form of investing indirectly in properties, called Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

The introduction of REITs into Malaysia has brought a whole new dimension to the country’s investment circles, adding special focus to the country’s property sector apart from enhancing the economy.

Since its debut back in 2005, the number of REIT players here has been growing and gaining prominence as a safer option for investment.

According to the head of equities at HwangDBS Investment Management Bhd (HwangDBS IM), Gan Eng Peng, Malaysia REITs (M-REITs) have grown in depth and breadth since 2005, fuelling his belief that high-quality properties were well positioned to maintain their popularity as an attractive defensive asset during volatile times.

“Malaysia made its debut of REITs in the stock exchange when Axis-REIT was listed in 2005,” said Gan. “Back then, the underlying assets were less varied.

“For instance, the more prominent REITs such as Axis-REIT capitalises on a combination high grade office assets in prime locations and industrial space, whilst Starhill-REIT offers top notch retail and hospitality assets in prime locations.

“Businesses in such areas tend to lock-in longer leases due to the appeal of its location and growth potential. On the other hand, the more environment-sensitive hospitality assets offer an upside during economic growth.”

A whole new ball game

The legislation for REITs in Malaysia categorises them as a unit trust, with a mandatory external management structure and at least 50 per cent of the fund’s total asset value to be invested in real estate and/or single-purpose companies at all times.

Property development of the assets under management is prohibited, but REIT managers may enter into conditional forward purchase agreements.

REITs are exempted from income tax if at least 90 per cent of income is distributed within two months of a financial year’s closure. However, dividend yields are not specified in Malaysian REIT guidelines.

With all these unique rules set in stone, REITs were emerging as a significant asset class in their own right, affirmed the chairman of Malaysian REIT Managers Association (MRMA) as well as the chief executive officer of Axis REIT, Stewart LaBrooy.

“From humble beginnings when market capitalisation was at about RM300 million in 2005, it currently boasts a market capitalisation of RM12 billion.,” he revealed.

“With the listing of Pavilion REIT in December, this should rise to RM16 billion.”

With so much value attributed to these REITs, it might appear odd to some that Malaysian REITs were still in their ‘infancy stage’.

The head of Real Estate and Construction Ratings, RAM Rating Services Bhd (RAM Ratings), Shahina Azura Halip, opined that with only six years of experience, the Malaysian REIT industry was considered to still be relatively young with much potential going forward.

“Based on our observations, the local REIT sector has not been growing as fast as some of its counterparts in Asia, with some local REITs having the same portfolio of properties since listing,” she stressed. “REITs in Singapore, in the meantime, often make active acquisitions and have already expanded their portfolio of properties overseas.”

In fact, the size of the local REIT sector paled in comparison to the likes of Hong Kong and Singapore, highlighted Shahina.

Supporting this was HwangDBS’ Gan, who compared Malaysia to Hong Kong and stated that Hong Kong began listing REITs in its stock market in 2005 shortly before Malaysia did.

“With only eight REITs in their portfolio, they have built their market capitalisation to US$12 billion in total, comprising a wide range of underlying asset mix ranging from hospitality, retail, office space, healthcare to industrial,” he added.

“However, its average yield is lower than that of M-REIT — at approximately five per cent — due to its perceived lower risk underlying assets, being a more mature capital market and nation, as well as its obviously higher liquidity that facilitates trading of the shares.”

Gan further opined that it was unfair to compare REITs between countries as it was a localised industry, sharing certain traits with the respective property sectors.

“That means it is difficult to compare a REIT from two different countries as each has its unique profile, potential and regulations amongst others. Furthermore, one should not take yield returns alone as an indication of performance.

“It should be a balance of yield, asset quality, and cost of financing, as high yielding REITs could also mean equally high financing costs or lower quality assets.”

Looking at local REIT players

To date, the country has 14 Malaysian REITs (M-REITs) with a total market capitalisation of RM12 billion, offering an average yield of seven per cent.

Of the 14 M-REITs, a few stand out by the very fact that they handle sector-specific properties in their portfolios.

These include Al-Aqar KPJ REIT (syariah-compliant focus on healthcare properties), Al-Hadharah Boustead REIT (touted to be the only Islamic plantation based REIT in the world), and Atrium REIT (with focus on logistics properties).

Some players that are fully-focused on retail are CMMT and Hektar REIT, with emphasis within the Klang Valley region.

Other well known REITs with mixed developments include Sunway REIT, Axis REIT, AmanahRaya REIT, Starhill REIT, AmFirst REIT, Tower REIT, UOA REIT and Quill Capita Trust.

These companies see a mix of retail, office, industrial, hotel or education properties in their portfolios.

Why are REITs so popular?

As all investment options have their own risk-reward profile, REITs appealed to investors as it was safe to park money for stable returns in light of the current volatile market conditions.

“Commodities could have higher return, but risk is also higher, more volatile,” said RHB Research Institute Sdn Bhd’s analyst Loong Kok Wen. “REITs will only offer you resilient and stable yields, but steady and less volatile unit price appreciation over the long term.”

In the past global financial crisis, unit price of REITs was also affected as there was market fear on the potential depreciation of property assets which triggered the debt collateral threshold, commented Loong.

“However, there were no such cases. Dividend yield was even higher (less than 10 per cent) due to unit price compression.”

RAM Rating’s Shahina compared returns from REITs with that from properties, citing differences along the way.

“In the Malaysian scene, yields from REITs have been at least around seven per cent, which is higher relative to the current returns from fixed deposits – understandably so, given that fixed deposits have lower risks,” she noted.

“Meanwhile, returns from properties can be divided into rental yield and capital gains. Rental yields from landed properties range at two to four per cent, while rental yields from condominiums are typically at about four to seven per cent.

“Comparing purely on just rental returns from properties versus the yield from REITs, the latter is likely to offer better returns, depending on the types of properties being considered. Nevertheless, as mentioned earlier, investors of properties will also be able to derive returns in the form of capital gains.”

However, Shahina forewarned that on balance, investing in property directly would require high capital investment and high concentration risk, in addition to the the fact that investors would have to manage the property by themselves.

Gan from HwangDBS affirmed that a blanket generalisation for the sake of comparison would not be accurate.

“For one, all the assets (stocks, commodities, properties and so on) are of differing classes and their respective suitability should be based on the investor’s objective, risk appetites, time horizon and overall investment portfolio,” he justified.

“In addition to that, these different asset classes have their respective functions in every investor’s portfolio. Generally speaking, though REITs are considered defensive play within the equity asset class, their performance move in tandem with economic growth and business cycles.

“As such, investors should adopt a longer term view when investing in REITs.”

Sectoral preferences

As players continue to raise funds and acquire new assets, different classes of REITs were predicted to thrive over others.

LaBrooy believed that investors needed to decide on the asset class that they were most comfortable with, citing East Malaysians as an example.

“Investors from Sabah and Sarawak favour Boustead’ Al-Hadharah REIT as it is a plantation REIT and they understand that market very well,” he cited.

“The appeal has to lie with the investor. At the same time, they have to be aware of the trends in the property market and look at exposure to potential oversupply situations where rents could be affected and, as a result, so will the dividend payout,” forewarned LaBrooy.

“However, most Malaysian REITs have very strong tenant covenants with strong tenancies in place, lowering that risk.”

Both Loong from RHB Research and Gan from HwangDBS pegged retail REITs as their favourite, emphasising on the fact that consumption in Malaysia would remain high and relatively insulated from the rest of the world.

“Retail spending will be relatively more resilient compared with manufacturing and industrial activities, in view of slower economic growth ahead,” Loong added.

RAM Ratings’ Shahina further appended that the performance of the retail property sector was supported by domestic economic growth and tourist arrivals, although stiff competition and large incoming supply were moderating factors that were constantly being monitored.

“Another category is the industrial property sector, which is seen to be largely stable,” Shahina opined. “Falling back to RAM Ratings’ outlook for the various aforementioned sectors, we have a negative outlook on the office sectors in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor due to the oversupply situation and its adverse effects on occupancy and rental rates.

“While demand from the manufacturing sector may moderate in the current uncertain economic environment, demand from the logistics sector is expected to provide some support to demand for industrial properties. Supply of industrial properties has been largely stable.

“Meanwhile, the healthcare industry is viewed to be relatively stable and defensive, given that healthcare is a basic necessity. Elsewhere, the oil palm plantation sector has a stable outlook, underpinned by demand from countries with large populations and increasing consumption of vegetable oils.”

(Source: CBRE, Bloomberg)

Creating awareness: How far are we?

It is a difficult task for managers to create awareness about REITs, especially within a society as diverse as Malaysia.

Language barriers, geography and different classes of wealth mentalities are among the few causes of hindrance seen in disseminating knowledge and understanding about REITs, its core concepts and its addendums over other equity asset classes.

“Generally speaking, Malaysian retail investors have a decent level of knowledge of equities as an asset class. However, when it comes to understanding the business fundamentals within the sub-sector of equities asset class such as REITs, more can be done to improve the knowledge of the general retail investors,” highlighted Gan from HwangDBS.

He went on to outline knowledge such as understanding the drivers behind the REITs industry, factors affecting the industry and its specific business sector, evaluating its potential and accessing its valuation could be handy in helping one make investment decision when it comes to investing in REITs.

One important game-changer is the MRMA, an association formed in May last year to represent the REIT sector. One of its main roles was to educate the public through seminars in association with banks and real estate companies.

LaBrooy as its chairman noted that the association had done much to create awareness in Sabah and Sarawak, with encouraging results to date.

‘We recently concluded a road show in Kota Kinabalu in the middle of the year, where we presented the REIT experience to investors,” he gave as example.

“However, I believe that local investors in Sabah and Sarawak still have a preference of owning local property as they are familiar with the markets. It will take time for the retail investors to come around to the idea of investing in REITs and we are doing all we can to accelerate the process.”

On the other end of the spectrum, one also needs to scrutinise the managers of these REITs to determine the investment viability.

RAM Rating’s Shahina affirmed that a REIT manager’s track record vis-à-vis managing the properties in its portfolio was an important consideration.

“This can be derived from the operational statistics of the properties, such as the historical occupancy and rental rates. The ability for a REIT manager to maintain strong occupancy and rental rates is a reflection of its competence,” she noted.

“The REIT manager’s ability to continuously perform asset enhancements to the buildings should also be taken into consideration as this will enable the REIT to enjoy better rental rates upon enhancements, either in the form of a ‘fresher’ look, better utilisation of space or optimisation of vacant space.”

On a broader note, one should also assess the REIT manager’s strategies in managing the overall portfolio of the REIT from the perspective of diversity in tenant mix, locations and types of leases, she added.

“A more diverse portfolio will reduce the REIT’s concentration risks to a particular segment. One should also take into consideration the REIT manager’s growth strategy for the REIT by assessing its acquisition criteria as well as funding strategy.”

Successful acquisitions of well-tenanted buildings would also give the REIT a boost in its rental income.

From a credit rating perspective, said Shahina, acquisitions should not be at the sole expense of balance sheet; in this context, the debt level and debt-maturity profile of REITs were also assessed.

Future expectations

Bearing all this in mind, it is generally understood that Malaysian REITs still have a long way to go.

“We expect the M-REIT industry to grow going forward as the industry gradually matures. The increasing awareness of REITs as an asset class through time will offer a wider range of investors and funding sources for REITs,” affirmed Shahina.

Gan from HwangDBS projected trajectory returns in the next 12 months to be about about 10 per cent upside, consisting of five per cent in capital appreciation and another five per cent for dividend returns.

LaBrooy was similarly optimistic, hoping that foreign investors would be strongly attracted by how inexpensive our properties were when compared with our neighbours.

RHB Research’s Loong hoped that the guidelines and policies on Malaysian REITs could be more liberalised to attract greater foreign participation in the future.

“Through this, it will also help to drive the entire property sector, encouraging more transactions and hence greater liquidity,” she concluded.

2011-11-09T07:11:00.001-08:00

Najib to announce 12 new ICT-based EPPs by year-end

Posted on 9 November 2011 - 03:28pm
Last updated on 9 November 2011 - 06:56pm

A file picture of Najib at the CHOGM. BERNAMA

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 9, 2011): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak will unveil 12 new ICT-based Entry-Point Projects (EPPs) by year-end, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili.

The 12 EPPs, under the Digital Malaysia initiative, is expected to generate RM60 billion in gross national income (GNI) until 2020.

"Half of them are already linked to the existing National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs)," Ongkili told reporters after launching the Fuji Xerox DocuWorld 2011 and 45th anniversary here today.

He said the specific names of the new EPPs will be announced by the Prime Minister at the launch.

Ongkili said essentially, the whole purpose of Digital Malaysia, is proper coordination of all investment and growth within the ICT sub sectors.

"It could be from e-government, e-society or the industry," he added. – Bernama

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2011-10-26T10:11:00.001-07:00

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How Bloggers Make Money Blogging

2011-10-18T03:27:00.000-07:00

Make Money Blogging

Do you want to make money blogging? If you do – you’re not alone. More and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable medium. Whether it be to earn a few extra dollars a week to feed their coffee habit, or making enough money to stop them having to get a part time job to get through college, or whether they’ve got it to a point where they are able to make a full time living from their blogging – there are tens of thousands of bloggers who make money blogging.

How to Make Money Blogging

In this page I want to share some information for beginners on how to make money blogging. For a very quick and broad visual intro – check out this Make Money Blogging MindMap which visualizes just SOME of the ways bloggers make money blogging.
First – let me start by sharing my own top Money Making Methods (updated regularly) but below that point you to some great resources and teaching on how to increase your income from blogging.
What follows is a quick summary of my main income streams from blogging. Before you read it though – keep in mind that every blog is unique in how it can make money. Some of the following income streams will work on some blogs a lot better than others – the key is to experiment with as many as possible and see what works best for you.
The following income streams (from a number of blogs) have helped me to earn a six figure income each year for the last 5 years from blogging. I’ve ranked them from highest to lowest.
I hope you find it useful to see the mix and variety of ways that I earn a living from blogging.

1. AdSense

Despite not using it here at ProBlogger any more (here’s why) I continue to use AdSense with amazing effect on my other blogs. I have them all set to show image and text based ads and find that 250×300 pixel ads work best (usually with a blended design). I don’t have much luck with their ‘referrals’ program but their normal ads work a treat and continue to be the biggest earner for me.

2. Affiliate Programs

I run a variety of affiliate programs on my blogs – most of which bring in smaller amounts of money that don’t really justify a category of their own (but which certainly add up).
These include recommending quality products like these here on ProBlogger: Thesis WordPress theme, Yaro’s Blog Mastermind Coaching Program and How to Launch the F*** out of your E-Book (and others) as well as some great products on my photography blog including 123 of Digital Imaging, David DuChemin’s amazing Photography E-Books and Mitchell Kanashkevich’s great ebooks.
The great thing about many of these programs is that they are of such high quality that they sell themselves and I am being emailed from readers who sign up to them thanking me for the recommendation!

3. E-Book Sales

Last time I did a wrap up of how I make money blogging this category did not exist for me – I didn’t really have any of my own products to sell at all. However in the last year or so I’ve released 3 E-books – 31 Days to Build a Better Blog,The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography and Photo Nuts and Bolts: Know Your Camera and Take Better Photos. While these products all only sell for under $20 they certainly add up and some months this has been my biggest category of income. The reason they were only ranking at #3 in the last month was that I didn’t do a product launch (I wrote about one launch which brought in $72,000 in a week here). This is an income stream I see growing as I add more E-books to my range (expect 3 in the coming few months).

4. Continuity Programs

This is another newer category for me but one that continues to grow.
A continuity program is a site where you earn a recurring income from people who subscribe to a service you offer.
For me this includes two sites – ProBlogger.com and Third Tribe Marketing. Both programs are membership sites and generate monthly income from the thousands of members that they have as a part of them.

5. Private Ad Sales/Sponsorships

Private ad sales directly to advertisers have fallen for me in the last year (they previously ranked #3 on this list). This is partly due to a change in my own focus but also partly due to the economy as it is. I should note that this area does vary a little from month to month depending upon the campaigns we’re asked to run – we’ve had a couple of months where it actually ranked #2 in the last year.
This includes ad sales of the 125 x 125 ads here at ProBlogger as well as a campaign or two atDigital Photography School.

6. Chitika

Chitka continues to be a great performer for me on my blogs. They traditionally have worked best on product related blogs although theirPremium ad units now convert well on a larger range of blogs.
While I’ve focused a little less on Chitika in the last 6 months (mainly as I’ve released my own products and moved a little away from advertising) they do continue to perform well where I use them and over the time I’ve been using Chitika they’ve now earned me over a quarter of a million dollars – as a result I can’t recommend them enough!

7. Amazon Associates

Amazon’s affiliate program has been one of my big movers in the last 12 months. I used to make a few odd dollars from it – however in recent times it has become a significant earner for me (in fact it’s now earned me over $100,000 since I started using it). Christmas time (and the lead up to it) is a particularly good time for Amazon – last December it would have ranked #2 on this list.

8. ProBlogger Job Boards

The job boards here at ProBlogger continue to grow each month in the number of advertisements that are being bought. This enabled me to invest most of the money that they’d earned a while back into getting a new back end for the boards and to redesign them. These job boards now bring in over $1000 a month in revenue which is pretty nice considering that they are so low maintenance to run. They also offer a service to readers and add value to the overall blog.
The only problem that I face with the job boards is that there are so many bloggers looking for work that the demand for jobs far exceeds the supply. On the good side of things is that advertisers are reporting getting amazing quality of applications.

9. Speaking Fees

I get asked to do a lot of speaking and increasingly they are paid opportunities. I’m not able to do as many as I would like (mainly because I live in Australia and most of what I’m asked to do is overseas and I only travel 2-3 times a year) – however in April I did a couple of events and the income was enough to include in this list.

Other Income

In addition to all of the above there are many smaller incomes. Many of these are from smaller advertising programs that I test but none are big enough to really rate a mention here.
The other income stream that there was no actual money from in April was book royalties from theProBlogger Book. These are only paid every 6 or so months (not in April). It’s probably also worth mentioning that authors don’t tend to make a whole lot of money on book royalties – you don’t write books to get rich (unless you sell a lot of them).

Useful Resources for Bloggers Wanting to Make Money Blogging

A lot has been written on the topic of making money online from blogs. There is a lot of wonderful information out there – but also a lot of hype and sometimes dangerous information.
Below are a number of articles that I’ve written exploring some of the different ways that bloggers make money.

How to Make Money Blogging from Advertising

Advertising Optimization – A series of posts on how to optimize advertising on your blog including posts on Traffic, Ad Positioning, Ad Design, Ad Relevancy and High Paying Ads.
AdSense Tips for Bloggers – an 8 part series of posts that walk bloggers new to Google’sAdSense (the way I make much of my income) through how to use it effectively to make money on their blogs.
Positioning Your AdSense Ads - a 3 part series on how I literally doubled my AdSense earnings overnight by repositioning my ads
How to Guarantee that You’ll Never Make More than 0.14 cents per month from AdSense – 10 points to help you earn more money from AdSense
How Quickly After Starting a Blog Should I put Ads on it? – one of the most common questions I am asked
10 Ways to Make Your Blog More Attractive to Advertisers – an Ad Guy tells all

How to Make Money Blogging from Affiliate Programs

10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on Your Blog – these tips helped me grow my affiliate earnings many times over
The Power of Getting Readers in the Door at Amazon - a case study on how linking to Amazon can lead to some surprising results
9 Reasons Why I am an Amazon Affiliate – Amazon is one of my bigger earners

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2011-10-13T03:17:00.001-07:00

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The 10 Most Expensive Blogs Ever Sold

2011-10-06T03:31:00.000-07:00

10. WorldHum.com – ($Millions? – Price not verified.)

Site: WorldHum.com

Bought by the Travel Channel.

Founded by Jim Benning and Michael Yessis, WorldHum is a travel-related blog with essays, interviews, reviews, audio, video, and more. Benning and Yessis say on the site, “We started World Hum out of our apartments in May 2001 with $35 and one goal: To publish the best travel stories on the Internet.”

Though they started with $35, as they say, both Benning and Yessis had professional travel writing experience in their background. Benning and Yessis continue to run the site.

The site’s estimated purchase price is rumored to be in the millions ($6 million?), but we have not been able to confirm that from a reputable source.

9. Freakonomics.com – (Price not verified.)

Site: Freakonomics.com

Bought by the New York Times.

The Freakonomics.com blog was born out of the best-selling book Freakonomics by writer Stephen J. Dubner and economist Steven D. Levitt. As they say on the blog, the book was “a book about cheating teachers, bizarre baby names, self-dealing Realtors, and crack-selling mama’s boys.” In other words, they analyze data and attempt to come up with sound theories that could explain why certain mysterious things in everyday life seem to happen.

The NY Times “absorbed” the blog, put it onto its main domain (nytimes.com), and began sharing revenue.(LA Times ) Information about a cash settlement is harder to come by. The blog ran on the Times site for a number of years, but recently it has been “unabsorbed” (I guess we could say) and is now back on its own domain (though still owned by the Times). Dubner and Levitt still run the blog.

8. Treehugger.com – $10 Million (Verified)

Site: Treehugger.com

Bought by Discovery Communications (The Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, et al).

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An environmental blog started in 2004 by Graham Hill, the blog “was entirely virtual and was managed from various cities around the world including Barcelona, Bangkok, Buenos Aires and New York,” as Hill says on his LinkedIn page.

According to TechCrunch, at the time of the sale the site had an Alexa ranking of 5,395. As of this writing, its current ranking is 3,343.

(Source: TechCrunch)

7. Celebrity Baby Blog (Price not verified.)

Site: Celebrity-Babies.com

Purchased by Time and now hosted on their domain People.com (People Magazine).

With a sale price estimated to be in the millions, celebrity-babies.com (now found at celebritybabies.people.com) was founded by Danielle Friedland. The site is, of course, about the babies of celebrities (not babies who are themselves celebrities … in case you were wondering). At the time of the sale, the site was attracting approximately 720,000 visitors a month and getting 6.9 million pageviews.

(Source: TechCrunch)

6. Deadline Hollywood Daily – $5-15 Million (Estimates vary wildly – Semi-verified)

Site: DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com

Bought by Mail.com Media Group.

Originally under the domain DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, now under the domain Deadline.com, Deadline Hollywood Daily is a showbiz blog started by showbiz journalist Nikki Finke to report on movie and TV news, awards, etc. Finke’s blog, unlike many on this list, was a one woman show.

The prices reported on this sale vary wildly. According to the LA Times, someone knowledgeable about the deal said there was initial cash (“a low seven-figure sum”) and a deal that would see Finke stay on staff five years for “millions” more and a share of the ad revenue. … Not a bad gig.

(Source: Poynter)

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5. Bankaholic.com – $15 Million (Verified)

Site: Bankaholic.com

Bought by Bankrate.com.

Bankoholic is a financial blog started by Johns Wu. Wu’s blog, like Deadline Hollywood Daily above, was a one man show. He provided information and advice on credit card offers, money market accounts, savings accounts, and more.

At the time of the sale, President and CEO of Bankrate Thomas R. Evans said, “Bankaholic is ranked high in natural search for both deposit and credit card keywords. We believe their organic traffic will increase our deposit and credit card revenue, and with a high composition of free traffic, will help to improve margins.”

(Source: TheNextWeb)

4. Ars Technica – $25 Million (Verified)

Site: ArsTechnica.com

Bought by Condé Nast.

Ars Technica (which is Latin for “Art of Technology”) is, you guessed it, a site that publishes technology news and reviews

Started by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998, it was designed to be “the best multi-OS, PC hardware, and tech coverage possible while … having fun, being productive, and being as informative and as accurate as possible.”

The current website describes themselves this way: “… we specialize in original news and reviews, analysis of technology trends, and expert advice on topics ranging from the most fundamental aspects of technology to the many ways technology is helping us enjoy our world. We work for the reader who not only needs to keep up on technology, but is passionate about it.”

(Source: CrunchBase)

3. PaidContent.org – “North of $30 Million” (Verified)

Site: PaidContent.org

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Bought by Guardian Media Group.

PaidContent.org is a blog about new media founded by journalist Rafat Ali. Its objective, as Ali says, is to “chronicle the evolution of digital content that is shaping the future of the media, information and entertainment industries.”

The site’s “About” page says, “Our belief is that in the near future, all media will be digital media, and we are helping define sustainable business models and innovation within this sector.”

(Source: AllThingsD)

2. TechCrunch.com – $30 Million (Verified)

Site: TechCrunch.com

Bought by AOL.

If you are interested in the tech field, then no doubt you have heard of TechCrunch (and very well may even visit it daily). Founded by Michael Arrington in 2005, it concentrates on technology companies and news, often with an emphasis on interesting start-ups.

Michael Arrington and AOL just recently parted ways a few weeks ago. You can read about the split (and get a confirmation of the price) from source link below.

(Source: NYTimes)

1. ConsumerSearch.com – $33 Million (Verified)

Site: ConsumerSearch.com

Bought by About.com (which is owned by the NY Times Company)

ConsumerSearch was started by Derek Drew and Carl Hamaan in 1999. It is unique in that it doesn’t actually publish its own reviews of consumer products, nor does it allow visitors to post reviews. Instead, it scours reviews from reputable sources and then reports back. In other words, it reviews reviews … if that makes sense.

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1. Collect the best reviews

2. Analyze their picks

3. Recommend what to buy

(Source: NYTimes)

So there you have it: The 10 Most Expensive Blogs Ever Sold (that could be verified or semi-verified by a legitimate source). But not every blog sale has to be for millions to make it a good one. Any blog sale is a good one if the blogger wants to sell.

Now it’s your turn. Can you list any decent blog sales that you’ve heard about off the top of your head? Heard of anything in the thousands that you can confirm?

Mobile Internet: You Must Take It With You

2011-10-03T07:52:00.001-07:00

Every day, the Internet goes from being less of a luxury to more of a necessity for all of us. And with the worldwide growth of Internet usage combined with the nearly equal growth in mobile phone usage, more and more people will find the need to access the Internet through their mobile device. In our always-on, always-connected world, the Internet has become a resource that fewer and fewer people can do without. See what you'll be able to do in the not-too-distant future with the mobile internet, how the mobile Web is evolving, the tips and tricks you'll need to go mobile, as well as the basics of what you need to get started on the mobile Internet. Topics included are:

Today's mobile web = tomorrow's web
The last mile: 3G systems
Mobile's decade of managed services
How to design sites for mobile phones

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How To Make Money Without Creating A Website Or Blog?

2011-10-02T10:41:00.000-07:00

It's very easy and you can earn money without having a website or blog. I have described lots of ways to make money online without creating any website or blog in this blog and you can use anyone of them or you can make money by doing some online jobs like data entry jobs, article writing jobs, email response handling jobs etc.

Here I will talk about some websites where you can earn without creating a website or blog. You will earn through Google Adsense without having a website or blog.

Flixya Flixya.com is owned by Google Adsense. It is free to create an account in flixya.com You can earn through Google Adsense from this website. You will earn by writing articles or uploading original photos and videos. When you sing up in this website you have to put your adsense publisher id to earn money from your articles, photos and videos if you don't have an adsense id then you can apply for it from this website. When you will put your adsense id in your flixya account, you will be able to earn money from your content. Now you can write articles or share photos and videos to earn money from this website.

Hubpages You can earn by writing unique articles from hubpages but you will have to put your adsense id. If you don't have an adsense account then apply for it from flixya.com or hubpages.com after then you can earn money by writing articles.

Bukisa It is similar to flixya.com

How to earn more with these websites First sign up in all of these websites and after then put your Google Adsense Publisher ID in these websites. After submitting your adsense id in these websites you can earn money by writing unique articles, uploading photos and videos. You should post more than hundred articles in all of these websites to earn more from your articles. You can even earn more by sharing your photos and videos to your friends. Whenever you upload any photo or video you should share the link of your photo to your friends so that they can view your photographs because you will earn from the traffic of your webpages. So try to increase traffic of your articles,photos and videos to make huge money from Google Adsense.

Google Wallet now available

2011-10-01T08:01:00.000-07:00

Get ready to tap, pay, and save

Google Wallet, a mobile app that makes your phone your wallet, is now rolling out through a software update to Nexus S 4G by Google, available on Sprint. Set up Google Wallet with Citi MasterCard or the Google Prepaid Card in just a few minutes.

As a thanks for your early interest, we’ll give you $10 on the Google Prepaid Card if you activate it in Google Wallet by the end of the year. You can then reload the Google Prepaid Card using any of your plastic credit cards. Google Wallet will be automatically pushed to Nexus S 4G phones on Sprint as part of a software update. You can pay with Google Wallet at thousands of merchants across the United States.

This is just the beginning for Google Wallet, so stay tuned.

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A Social Media Melee: Facebook Vs. Google+

2011-09-24T02:44:00.000-07:00

Social media plays such a large role in everyday business that it's hard to imagine there are still many small businesses that don’t take advantage of Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. And now, with the advent of Google+, the fight for social media dominance is practically an all-out war for the two behemoths: Facebook and Google.

The impact of these two companies colliding will be felt throughout the business world, and small business owners should take heed. Mike Elgan over at Datamation, takes a closer look at what's to come.

Facebook and Google+ are now churning out updates, improvements and features at a breathless clip. It’s an all-out, gloves-off scramble to claim the biggest prize of all: the future of the social Internet.

When Facebook and Google+ to war, who wins and who loses? The answer is that users win and Twitter loses.

Read the complete article: When Facebook and Google+ Go to WarA Social Media Melee: Facebook Vs. Google+

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Google's Android: The Next Biggest Player in Mobile Apps?

2011-09-20T08:42:00.000-07:00

If the rate of app submission today is going to be the trend in the near future, Google's Android market will become the biggest mobile content platform by the end of 2011 according to mobile research specialist, research2guidance.

In the month of April, 28,000 new apps were submitted to the Android market as opposed to the 11,000 new apps submitted to Apple's App Store. This brought the Android app count to 295,000 where sixty-eight percent are free. iOs is still ahead though at 381,000 but at the current growth rate, expect the tide to turn come August when Android is predicted to overtake Apple at 425,000.

It's still a prediction however. Considering that Google has a fragmented platform with phones and tablets in different shapes, flavors and sizes, it will be a challenge for developers to create a complex app that would work in all Android devices. The various screen resolution is affecting the way an Android app behaves and it's hard for developers to look for a compromise to that so their app will be effective in whatever resolution an Android phone has. Compare that to iOS developers only having to deal with Apple's iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad lineup and you'll find it hard to believe that this trend will continue.

Still, being fragmented is not that bad as it allowed Android to gain a huge chunk of the smartphone market surpassing Apple. And with that, it doesn't matter if it's the best platform out there but it's now a question of which platform everyone else uses and that's where developers would eventually flock.

Google Wallet, Confirmed

2011-09-19T09:38:00.000-07:00

M.G. Siegler reports that Google might be launching its somewhat delayed Google Wallet service sometime today. From the looks of it, it might actually be out in the wild. Our own Ian Kennedy snapped this photo at a Peet’s Coffee shop near our offices in downtown San Francisco. Google has updated the Google Wallet website as well. More details to follow.

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Internet Issues

2011-09-19T03:31:00.001-07:00

As the Internet grows, the issues which challenge its stability and beneficial evolution become both more numerous and more complex. Here are the main Internet issues the Internet Society focuses on:

Access

Access to the Internet is a fundamental public policy issue with several facets. In a physical sense, access to infrastructure and equipment depends on the availability of computers, modems, telephone lines and network hardware. Read more...

DNSSEC

The Domain Name System (DNS) enables networks on the Internet to use globally unique names. This creates a "human" environment, where people can use easy-to-remember names for things like web pages and mailboxes, rather than long numbers or codes. Devices on the Internet use the DNS to look up Internet names and "resolve" them into Internet address numbers, allowing communication across the Internet. Read more....

The Domain Name System

Innovation

The Internet has spurred innovation in an unprecedented way. Whether it is in the areas of technological change, social networking, content generation, economic development, or delivery of services — to mention just a few — the Internet continues to allow and encourage users to innovate in ways only limited by their imagination. Read more...

Intellectual Property

The emergence of the Internet has forced legislators, intellectual property holders, and activists to rethink the way intellectual property laws should operate in a modern networked society. Read more...

Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)

Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) keep Internet traffic local, improve the quality of Internet services, provide resilience in domestic infrastructure, and reduce costs. IXPs are also growing in importance as critical infrastructures. Read more...

IP Addressing

Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are unique numeric identifiers that are needed by every device that connects to the Internet. The are a shared common resource that must be managed carefully to ensure the continued growth and stability of the Internet. Most of the Internet is currently addressed with IP version 4 (IPv4) addresses. Read more

IPv6

IPv6 is the next generation IP address, offering vastly more unique addresses than are possible under IPv4. IPv6 has been available and used for many years, but levels of deployment and understanding remain relatively low. Read more...

Multilinguism

The domain name system (DNS) was originally developed using the ASCII character set, employing only Roman characters and a limited number of symbols. With the global growth of the Internet, there have been increasing calls for "internationalized domain names" (IDNs), particularly support for other character sets in the top level of the DNS. Read more...

Open Internet

How might one envision the future of the Internet? One way is to think of the Internet built around the needs of the individual citizen of the Net. Read more...

Privacy

Much of the discussion related to data protection and privacy revolves around issues related to the WHOIS databases. These databases are used to register information about about Internet resources (such as domain names, IP addresses, and related resources). Read more...

Security

ISOC believes the Internet is for everyone and is committed to promoting the Internet's development, stability, and security. Malicious activities, such as denial of service attacks, spam, viruses, phishing scams, and other fraudulent activities, abuse the freedoms of the Internet. Read more... .

Spam

Spam has grown to be a major concern for Internet users and policy makers not only congesting networks and disseminating viruses and fraudulent messages, but also undermining trust in the Internet and the digital economy. Read more...

Standardisation

The use of standard technologies and protocols is one of the most significant reasons for the successful growth of the Internet. In fact the Internet itself, rather than being a single entity, is a vast network of networks, comprising many different sorts of devices, designs, and purposes. Standards are what bring this all together and allow end-to-end operation. Read more...

Malaysia Internet Usage Stats and Marketing Report

2011-09-18T10:39:00.000-07:00

Internet Usage Statistics:16,902,600 Internet users as of June, 2009, 64.6% of the population, according to ITU.
Latest Population Estimate:
26,160,256 population for 2010, according to US Census Bureau.
Gross National Income:
GNI per capita is US$ 7,547 according to the I.M.F.

Country Area:
329,758 sq km - Population density is 79 per sq km.
Internet Usage and Population Growth:

YEAR
Users

Population

% Pen.

Usage Source

2000
3,700,000

24,645,600

15.0 %

ITU

2005
10,040,000

26,500,699

37.9 %

C.I.Almanac

2006
11,016,000

28,294,120

38.9 %

ITU

2007
13,528,200

28,294,120

47.8 %

MCMC

2008
15,868,000

25,274,133

62.8 %

MCMC

2009
16,902,600

25,715,819

65.7 %

ITU

2010
16,902,600

26,160,256

64.6 %

ITU

Malaysia Internet Subscribers to Double by 2012
January 30, 2007 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The number of the Internet subscribers in Malaysia is expected to reach the 10 million mark in the next five years according to Telekom Malaysia (TM) Bhd General Manager of Strategic Development Division, Dr Fadhlullah Suhaimi Abdul Malek. His statement is based on the growing trend of Internet users in the last three years as Malaysia moved towards advanced information, communications and multimedia services.

In 2004 the number of subscribers was 2.9 million, in 2005 it increased to 3.5 million subscribers, and in 2006 the number of subscribers in Malaysia was close to five million. This is an encouraging growing trend, and most of the Internet subscribers were eyeing for high speed broadband infrastructure.

Regarding the number of fraud cases involving Internet transactions are relatively small and Malaysia has sufficient laws to deal with such fraud cases.

Malaysia Information and Profile Links
Malaysia Statistics
The Offical Web Site for Malaysia Statistics.
Malaysia Profile
Geographic and historic information of Malaysia.
Malaysia Profile
Malaysia Political and Media Information from the BBC.
Malaysia Webshots
Photographs and information on Malaysia.

Malaysia Search Engines and Local Directories

NETWORK MALAYSIA English Malaysia Directory and Search Engine.

CARI English The first Malaysian search engine, in English and Malay.

GOOGLE Malay and English Google, Malaysian search engine. Site in Malay.

CATCHA English Catcha, the Malaysian Search Engine.

MALAYSIA CENTRAL Bi-lingual Bi-Lingual: English Search & Carian Bahasa Malaysia.

MALAYSIA�DIRECTORY English Malaysian directory and search engine.

Colossus English Search Engine Directory for Malaysia.

YELLOW PAGES English Malaysian Yellow Pages. Also searches white pages, government, and embassies.

NOW SELL English Directory of Malaysian search engines. It Features the links for sending your URL.

Telecommunications and Internet in Malaysia:
Malaysia - Internet and E-Services Report
There is an increasing awareness of technology in Malaysia. With the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Project and the government’s commitment to a technological society, a large number of high tech companies from around the world have started to set up in Malaysia. But efforts at encouraging the wider community to embrace technology have so far not been totally successful. Dial-up Internet access is growing steadily, but there has been very little interest in broadband Internet. And e-commerce activity can only be described as sluggish. This report looks at the take-up of Internet and e-commerce in Malaysia, some of the key players and where the market is likely to go. Get the complete report

Malaysia - Data and Broadband Services Report
Malaysia has been heavily promoting itself as an Information Technology hub in the Asia region. On the back of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Project, high tech companies have been setting up in Malaysia. But efforts by the government at encouraging the wider community to embrace technology have so far met with limited success. There has been surprisingly little interest in broadband Internet, the national broadband penetration being only slightly over 1% by early 2005. One bright spot in the market has been WiFi, and service providers start to rollout their ‘hotspot’ services. This report looks at data services and the development of high-speed Internet access in Malaysia. See summary.

Malaysia - Key Telecommunications Statistics Overview and Report
Many of the players in Malaysia’s telecommunications sector were seriously affected by the economic crisis of the late 1990s. Despite this, there has been strong growth in the sector over the last decade. Fixed-line services jumped from around 2 million in 1990 to about 4.7 million in 2002, resulting in a penetration approaching 20%. The mobile market has been more spectacular, jumping from 3 million subscribers in 1999 to reach 14.5 million by end-2004 and it was continuing to grow at an annual rate of about 25%. This report looks at that growth. It also presents a view of the industry players and, in so doing, notes that the market has probably moved into a major consolidation phase. See summary.

Malaysia - Telecommunications Infrastructure Report
The building of Malaysia’s telecommunications infrastructure has seen extensive fibre optic networks installed across the length and breadth of the country. This report describes how the country has continued to allocate capital to invest in information technology and telecommunications infrastructure despite the setback of the economic crisis of the late 1990s. A prime example has been the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. No matter how difficult the economy became, during this period the government continued to find funding for this project. The end result has been the MSC strategy appears to have come through the economic crisis reasonably intact. See summary.

Internet Ecosystem

2011-09-16T17:15:00.000-07:00

Internet Ecosystem is the term used to describe the organizations and communities that guide the operation and development of the technologies and infrastructure that comprise the global Internet. These organizations share common values for the open development of the Internet.

Download the Internet Ecosytem (PDF 328K)

See also the brochure Ecosystem graphic and glossary (PDF)

Internet Ecosystem

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2011-09-13T20:08:00.000-07:00

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Important- But before joining these online jobs providing websites, you have to join Online money transaction system ( Online Bank ) for easy money transfer of your earning from these jobs providing websites. Don't worry, it is free to create an account in these online money transaction system. PayPal is the most popular money transaction system for this purpose. It's free to join and takes few minutes to create an account in PayPal. Although you can create it later.

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2011-09-13T18:47:00.001-07:00

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2011-09-12T07:14:00.001-07:00

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Google Confirms It Aims to Own Your Online ID

2011-09-08T09:25:00.000-07:00

Amid a furor over Google+'s ban on pseudonymity and anonymity, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt just admitted the company intends to be an 'identity service"

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Ever since Google (GOOG)launched its new Google+ social network, we and others have pointed out that the search giant clearly has more in mind than just providing a nice place for people to share photos of their pets. For one thing, Google needs to tap into the “social signals” that people provide through networks such as Facebook so it can improve its search results. There’s a larger motive, too: As Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt admitted during an interview in Edinburgh over the weekend, Google is taking a hard line on the real-name issue because it sees Google+ as an “identity service” or platform on which it can build other products.

Schmidt’s comments came during an interview with Andy Carvin, the National Public Radio digital editor who has become a one-man newswire during the Arab Spring revolutions. Carvin asked the Google chairman about the company’s reasoning for pushing its real-name policies on Google+—a policy that many have criticized (including us) because it excludes potentially valuable viewpoints that might be expressed by political dissidents and others who prefer to remain anonymous. In effect, Schmidt said Google isn’t interested in changing its policies to accommodate those kinds of users: If people want to remain anonymous, he said, then they shouldn’t use Google+.

GOOGLE+ IS PRIMARILY AN “IDENTITY SERVICE”

It was the former Google CEO’s remarks about the rationale for this policy that were most interesting: He didn’t just say—as Vic Gundotra, the Google executive in charge of the new social network has—that having real names maintains a certain tone of behavior that is preferable to anonymous forums (an argument that online-community pioneer Derek Powazek has also made). According to Carvin, Schmidt said the reason Google needs users with real names is that the company sees Google+ as the core of an identity platform it is building that can be used for other things:

He (Eric) replied by saying that G+ was built primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build future products that leverage that information.

As Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson noted in a blog post in response to Schmidt’s comments, this is an admission by the company that it wants to be an identity gatekeeper. Others have made similar observations since the launch of Google+. Programmer and online veteran Dave Winer, for example, said—when the real-name policy first started to become a hot-button issue—that Google’s purpose was clearly to “provide identity in a commerce-ready way. And to give them information about what you do on the Internet, without obfuscation of pseudonyms.” In his blog post, Fred Wilson said:

It begs the question of whom Google built this service for? You or them. And the answer to why you need to use your real name in the service is because they need you to.

REAL NAMES ARE MORE VALUABLE TO ADVERTISERS

As I tried to outline in a recent GigaOM Pro research report entitled “How social search is changing the search industry” (subscription required), there’s an obvious search-related rationale for launching a social network such as Google+ because indexing and mining that kind of activity can help the company provide better “social search” results. But the real-name issue has more to do with Google’s other business: namely, advertising. Users who are anonymous or pseudonymous are arguably a lot less valuable to advertisers than those who choose to attach their real identitie—including their age, gender, location, and further demographic details—to their accounts.

What kind of services is Schmidt referring to when he says that Google is looking at Google+ as an identity platform that could support other services? Dave Winer thinks the company wants to effectively become a bank—something he suspects Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) are interested in as well. Apple and Google both seem interested in NFC technology (near-field communication), which turns mobile devices into electronic wallets; having a social network tied to an individual user’s identity would come in handy. Ross Dawson says Google wants to build a “reputation engine,” using Google+ as a platform.

2011-09-06T20:35:00.000-07:00

November 2010 saw the launch of Malaysia’s 4G Internet service with YTL Communications stepping its foot into the broadband, or rather as it calls itself, the BROADERBAND service. It started off boasting itself as the “world’s first fully converged mobile Internet service”, “most affordable mobile Internet service with voice” and having “65% coverage”… but its own website failed to load correctly, even a day after it was launched. To add salt to the wound, Yes 4G has also been publishing some misleading ads on Google, targeting competitor brand names that seems like a direct attack if it was intentional, or gave the impression of some very bad backdoor tactics that are unethical. This sparked a lot of negative comments, but then everyone is putting this issue behind them and anticipating what Yes 4G has to offer. The Yes 4G Mobile Internet service uses the selling point of combining mobile Internet with voice, tapping into the potentials of users wanting to have it all in one, with one comprehensive plan to ease users management. It boasts of being able to stream videos, check emails, video conference and chat on the go without buffering or delays (is that possible?) using either your smartphone or your notebook. Yes 4G has coverage in major towns in Malaysia, and is expected to go worldwide. However, at this moment the navigation of its own site is a bit confusing, and there are only service centers in Kuala Lumpur. The website showed some Yes 4G device, but it is not exactly the prettiest thing around, if you look at the designs of HTC EVO, myTouch and Epic as examples of best selling 4G phones. The 4G device looks like a very conventional Samsung mobile, without touch screens, so you can imagine how small the display is. Also, just a 2.0 megapixel camera? Does not sound appealing with the advance of up to 12.0 megapixel camera with today’s technology. But can you use Yes 4G with other 4G devices? The plan sounds fantastic, although it does not seem to benefit those who are enjoying discounts with family plans. Most family plan users provides for the elderly, but the YES 4G seems to neglect this generation as the Yes Plan does not seem to give an alternative to not need the Internet service. It reveals exactly the market that YTL is targeting in this business.

Malaysian internet history

2011-09-06T20:11:00.001-07:00

The year 1995 was considered the beginning of the Internet age in Malaysia. The growth in the number of Internet hosts in Malaysia began around 1996. The country's first search engine and web portal company, Cari Internet, was also founded that year.[1] According to the first Malaysian Internet survey conducted from October to November 1995 by MIMOS and Beta Interactive Services, one out of every thousand Malaysians had access to the Internet (20,000 Internet users out of a population of 20 million) (Beta Interactive Services, 1996). In 1998, this number grew to 2.6% of the population. The total number of computer units sold, which was 467,000 in 1998 and 701,000 in 2000 indicated an increasing growth (Lee, 2000c). The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission sets a low threshold for broadband[2]. It defined broadband as: Any service beyond the scope of existing PSTN/ISDN and 2G cellular networks With data rates that exceed the normal voice-related speed (56 kbit/s for PSTN and 64 kbit/s for ISDN) This definition is far below the primary rate interface lower limit defined by the International Telecommunications Union in ITU-R F.

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Internet Issues

Access

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Open Internet

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Spam

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Google Confirms It Aims to Own Your Online ID

Amid a furor over Google+'s ban on pseudonymity and anonymity, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt just admitted the company intends to be an 'identity service"

GOOGLE+ IS PRIMARILY AN “IDENTITY SERVICE”

REAL NAMES ARE MORE VALUABLE TO ADVERTISERS

Malaysian internet history