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Facebook is biggger than entire Internet was in 2004

At the recent F8 conference Facebook revealed that they now have 800 million active users. Europe, with Russia included, has a population of 727 million. We now have a social network that is so large that it could fill up a major world region with people and still have some to spare (this “spare” being [...]

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France to explore “Google tax” to pay creative work

French President Nicolas Sarkozy  said on Thursday that he wanted the authorities to explore whether online advertising revenues of major search engines could be taxed in  Franceas well as their home countries. Speaking to leaders and representatives of the arts and entertainment sector, he also said he wanted the country’s antitrust body to rule on whether Google enjoys a dominant [...]

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