It?’s Web News Monday and here?’s what shaping our Web world this week.A Web camp of sorts has been has established in South Korea for those afflicted with Internet addiction. That?’s right, the New York Times said Sunday the growth of the addiction led to the foundation of the “Jump Up Internet Rescue School” which employs a boot camp mentality to free people from their modern-day affliction.
Not that I am insensitive to this issue mind you, but I be willing to bet that some entrepreneurial minded ceo is in the process of writing up his or her international business plan to open a few of these camps elsewhere in the world at this very moment.
Brent, if you?’re listening or watching, I think that the Aloha state would make a great venue for the Internet Addiction Camp Hawaiin Style and I’d like to be there when it opens.
In other news, it?’s monopoly days for billon dollar Internet Companies.Last week, the antitrust division of the European Commission delayed the approval on Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick. The EU cites that it needs more time to review for a pending decision in April. A similar review is under way at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. Turns out that, over 30 groups are urging the commission and the FTC to restrict the merger and they include: The Center for Digital Democracy, the International Advertising Assn., the World Federation of Advertisers, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask.com.
Online advertising is a multi billon dollar market and as web pros it?’s our clients that pay the price for web advertising that keep these companies in the cash and we need to stay aware of these activites.
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