Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products
An anonymous reader writes "Following the announcement about its major privacy revamp this week, Facebook has announced it is killing two of its products. The company has axed Facebook Places, although it still adding new location features at the same time. In addition, the social network has has axed Facebook Deals, although Check-in Deals will still be available."
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Monday, May 23, 2011
AOL Kills India (AOL)
AOL's Indian site, AOL.in, now redirects to aol.coolage.in, one of AOL's media properties, TheNextWeb has noticed.
Maybe AOL is just preparing a relaunch or a revamping of their India portal. Or maybe it's just giving up on India as it tries to turn around its business in the US.
AOL has thousands of employees in India and when AOL was being spun out of Time Warner there was a lot of speculation about what international operations AOL would or wouldn't keep. In the end it kept India.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Comcast Starts The Ball Rolling That Kills All-You-Can-Eat Internet Access (CMCST, LVLT, NFLX, AAPL)
Get ready to pay more for all the video you're watching on the Internet: The days of all-you-can-eat Internet access are growing scarce.
That's the REAL reason that Comcast is trying to get Level 3, a telecom company, to pay extra for the Internet video traffic it's pushing onto Comcast's pipes -- which Level 3 is now publicly complaining about.
As web video -- which uses a lot of bandwidth -- grows in popularity, Comcast will want to get paid more. Especially because web video is eventually going to replace a lot of the video you're currently watching on cable TV, and that you're paying Comcast a fat monthly bill for.
As more people replace part or all of their cable subscription with Internet video, Comcast is going to need to get its money somewhere, whether it's directly from consumers, or via a middle man, like Level 3.
Perhaps Comcast is first trying to make Internet video more expensive for Level 3 (and its customers like Netflix) to deliver, by charging more for bandwidth on the back end.
This would make business more expensive for streaming services like Netflix and iTunes, who may then have to charge consumers more for their video services. That would be extra sweet for Comcast -- more money, and weaker competition from iTunes and Netflix.
But if that doesn't work, because of either market or regulatory forces, Comcast may have to go after its own cable modem customers next to get that extra revenue. And that may mean an Internet bill that's much more than $45 per month.
Either way, don't expect this issue to go away -- and don't expect your all-in entertainment bill to go down.
Just because Internet video is the future, doesn't mean it's going to be cheap.
By the way, we'll be talking about this issue at IGNITION, our conference later this week about the future of media. If you haven't bought a ticket yet, what are you waiting for?
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Comcast Starts The Ball Rolling That Kills All-You-Can-Eat Internet Access (CMCST, LVLT, NFLX, AAPL)
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