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According to secured loans site the financial market is under crises with many financial and banking institution are afraid of lending money to borrowers for any purposes. I even came to know that picture finance one of lender has gone bankrupt, picture finance was one of the reputable lenders.

Due to jobs cuts in UK and US, banking institution fears of money coming back from the borrowers. Recently Country Wide Finance lost $900 Million. This shows the finance market is going under major threat and banks are loosing billions of dollars as loss.

I my self applied for a home improvement loans but was rejected due to bad credit history.

In recently published news, Yahoo Inc has announced that they would accept paid search results from Google on trial bases in order to meet the expectations of their shareholders. yahoo further declared that if the trial is successful, the path is paved for Yahoo to justify a $40 per share valuation.

Google is looking forward to this opportunity as it will increase their market share further. The test, expected to last up to two weeks and be limited to up to 3 percent of Yahoo search queries in the U.S., is specifically for Google's Ad Sense for Search service.

The deal between yahoo and Google was not liked by the big software buddy, the "Microsoft", which quoted that this deal is not at all suitable and inevitably run into regulatory trouble because it would give Google more than 90 percent search market share.

Google's search share market is massive about 70% of US market and will boost their share to more than 90% if Yahoo fully outsourced their search ads to Google. Source::- http://my.telegraph.co.uk/personal/

After a tremendous success of £5 million advertising & marketing campaign for its online betting shop, Britain's biggest online betting company Ladbrokes is now after online bingo games.

Ladbrokes is seeking £2m advertising campaign to help promote its online bingo site. The chief executive of Ladbrokes firm Chris Bell stated that they would like to through challenge to partyBingo, Gala Bingo for capturing Bingo market share through TV advertisements and other marketing & advertising campaigns.

Israel is banning online gambling after the bill which bans all forms of gambling was passed by the government or Knesset last week. Any illegal websites like those of porn, child pornography, online gambling, casinos and website that spreads violence is included in the bill.

The bill was proposed by MK Amnon Cohen an Israel politician, It received 46 votes in favour and 20 against.

Now its time for another European country to shut the doors for internet gambling. Finnish country is laying a plan which will make it illegal for finish people to bet or play online poker. First it was France followed by Germany who banned online gambling and now it is Finland who is up to banning online gaming.

Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health's plans move forward to introduce an amendment to Finland's online gambling laws to enable Internet gamblers to claim back their losses by being paid by either the firm providing the online poker services, a credit card company, or the winning player in the game.

You guys might have come across many poker games like texas holdem, 7 card Stud, 5 card draw poker and many other famous poker games. But you might not have heard of pai gow poker game which is not as famous as texas holdem, 7 card stud and other famous games.

Pai gow is chinese name give to this game. Actually you can find detail review of rules and strategies as to how to play pai gow poker game in freewebs article. The author of the content believes that poker is not a game of chance or luck instead its a game of skill and smartness. How you read your opponents, when to fold, when to raise and much much more.

I have even played caribbean stud poker which is quiet interesting but not as interesting as pai gow poker. Please do read the above give article link.

Apple Iphone is finally out in EU countries and fans are running towards mobile showrooms to buy one for themselves. Showrooms in Germany and London was packed with customers eagerly waiting to grab the much awaited gadget of the year.

Over 10,000 iPhones were sold by Friday afternoon in Germany, a T-Mobile spokeswoman said, after it went on sale at midnight in a Deutsche Telekom shop in Cologne.

Software giant 'Microsoft' and world's best social networking site FaceBook has recently announced that Microsoft will hold $240 million stake in FaceBook, valuing the world largest social networking site at whooping $15 billion.

Microsoft will be Facebook's "exclusive third-party advertising platform partner" and will also sell Facebook's international advertising. Please read the whole article wired web site.

According to source Google will now offer You Tube videos as part of Google adsense from this Tuesday.

The Google Adsense Video will offer two kinds of advertising, 1) ads contextual to the site and 2) ads contextual to the video being played, also the users will not be able to choose from any YouTube video, but only videos from content providers who have signed an agreement with YouTube. When comes to earnings, the revenue on the video will be divided among site owner, content creator, and Google itself.

Google is bringing some new features to its adsense this news seems to be very interesting . "Change is something that we expect".

According to ilounge an Ipod community site announced that Microsoft will be announcing its launch of new zune . Microsoft have not disclosed any features of a new Zune music player and every one is expecting them to bring some new features with subscription flash-based model , to a simple tweak on the current model that dumps the DRM, adds support for useful WiFi, podcasts, and more codecs, and drops the price (we hope.)

According to a official zune blog Microsoft is updating its device hard drive model to 80GB of and come in black at launch. It's supposed to be 26% smaller than the original Zune yet boast a much larger 3.2 inch lcd screen. Pricing will be $249. The "old" 30 GB Zune will be sold for $199 and get new firmware updates with the new devices. New Zunes are due to release around November 13th.

One of the fastest and reliable online payment processor "Xoom" has raised funds worth $20 million by DAG Ventures and joined by previous investors Fidelity Ventures.

Xoom allows customers to transfer funds to their overseas bank accounts it operates same as western union money transfer and Paypal, but some times you may not able to transfer funds from your paypal as the receiver doesn't have paypal service in his country so there Xoom steps in and remove all your headache's .

The fees are reasonable, varying between 4% for a small payment down to 1.1% for larger payments. The service is also a convenient way to make international wire transfers that compare well in price to most major banks.

According to Forbes now one billion dollars are not enough to make it to the top richest people, not even in top 400. The admission for entering into top richest people that is among 400 is $1.3 Billion.

The collective net worth of America’s plutocrats rose $290 billion to $1.54 trillion.

November 29th will be the date of launching Apple Iphone in France. The retail price rate for the Iphone will be 300 euro's with orange. For more info visit crunchgear site.

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After Microsoft's Zune now its time for Apple to reduce prices for the Iphone. Recently Apple cuts 8Gb Ipohne from price from $599 to $399. Apple may also stoop prices for 4Gb Iphone aswell.

A post from Zune insider confirmed that the retail price for the Zune mp3 player has been reduced to $199.

Now that the Zune price are slashed, more people can enjoy the music experience from Microsoft's mp3 player.

Playboy has now launched their new social network site called Playboyu.com , which allows only college students to join the community and one must have .edu id and mimicking Facebook’s for registration.

The new social network site will be exclusively for college students only non-nude social network, where students can share their school pride, connect with other students and celebrate the social side of college.

Majority of webmaster, measure's their website traffic through Alexa traffic tool. But I would like to give a very fare example as to how Alexa has become useless and fit for nothing. According to techcrunch's post it shows the traffic comparison between Google and Youtube and out come is youtube traafic is way more than Google. Youtube's page crawls are more than Google's, something very unbelievable.

If You haven't heard of Texty software you better be :) ,yes, Texty has bought a new software system for the internet users who can edit or customize their web content without having any knowledge of HTML or other programming. Simply go to the site start typing content for your website on Texty editor format page, insert or arrange images, click buttons and automatically Texty will create a simple html programming code for your site and if wish to edit it you can go back to edit page section and make what ever changes you want.

Texty is currently providing beta version of the software and will be launching full fledge in coming months.

Sooner or later the search engine giant Google Inc. will be soon releasing the permission to comments on news stories in Google, but on one condition that the person that is trying to post a comments should be a special reader or from decent organization.

Here’s how it the comments program will run, If you are involved in a story, you can send your comments to Google along with statements supporting how you are connected to the story.

Google won’t edit your comments but can have them removed for hate speech, or terminating any terms & services etc, and they aren’t yet saying how connected to a story you have to be to get in. Whatever the rules, this is going to require a ton of manual labor on Google’s end. This stuff simply can’t be automated.

Event tickets are suppose to be the biggest market in United States and continue to grow smoothly. A London based even ticketing company named Viagogo are all set to lay their hands on United States market. Viagogo is a internet marketplace for event tickets. if you have heard of a very popular site "StubHub" which was overtook by e-bay for $307 million back in january.

Eric baker was the founder of StubHub in the year 2005 and now coming back to America to take on StubHub with a huge funding of $30 million from the index ventures. Viagogo still has a larger presence in Europe, making exclusive ticketing deals with a number of Europe’s top teams, including Manchester United, Chelsea Football Club and Bayern Munich.

You have might have heard about Last.fm and Pandora they are nothing but internet radio and music sites and now MeeMix is has recently launched their beta version of software of internet radio/music service with a age bar of between 15-35.

What MeeMIX Does? It allow users to create their own personalized music channel depending upon one's taste and preferences with minimum huss and fuss.Like Pandora, MeeMix breaks down each song, artist and user down to an elemental level, that's how it works,currently it is under beta version.

An Mobile Application developer named Action Engine recently roused handsome amount of $20 million as venture investments.

The company is one of fine developers of mobile device software that allows media companies and other mobile operators to provide music, video and other content on mobiles.

Till now Action Engine has a total funding of $65 million and this money will be used for marketing , sales & distribution efforts.

RH Donnelley bought business.com domain for massive $350 Million. The business.com domain was purchased for worth $7.5 million 7 yrs back. RH Donnelley is a directory of local commercial search company and he beats down Dow Jones and the New York Times during the bidding.

Right now business.com is a search business directory and getting huge amount of traffic since last Febuary.

Neteller, the online payment processor has agreed to pay off $136million to U.S government regarding the charges of illegal transferring of money from U.S customers to offshore gambling companies and return customers funds of $93 million back, as the funds were frozen by the U.S dept of justice to show proof in the court.

The 18 months monitoring charges issued by the US govt which allows, Neteller to avoid a criminal conspiracy charge. If Neteller avoids transferring U.S. funds to offshore gambling sites over the monitoring period, all charges will be dropped.

The much awaited and the most hyped gadget Apple Iphone is set to be releasing this friday and many people lined up on thursday in front of apple store to buy apple iphone.

The gadget, which combines the functions of a cell phone, iPod and wireless Web browser, will go on sale in the United States at Apple and AT&T stores at 6 p.m. Friday in each time zone.

Apple introduced two models in Iphone i,e 4GB and 8Gb each. The 4Gb model will cost you $499 and 8Gb model will cost you $599 with 2.0 mega pixel camera with damn good looks.

MYSPACE :- There has been some kind of rumors that myspace website is worth 12 billon dollars. Recently yahoo and Fox updated that yahoo is interested in buying Myspace for 25% of the stock in the combined entity.

But as far as I am concerned I don't think myspace is that worth ans if we take Facebook which is eqaully popular and a very high traffic website was only valued at $1.2 Billion.  Will it be a great move from yahoo, as good times are no where to be seen for them.

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Yes, that is true, now any one can create their own Internet radio station via newly launched site   Ubraodcast website.

ubroadcast software enhance users to host their own live internet talk radio aswel as music show complete with play list support, MP3 uploading, inline CD ripping, commercials and other important features.

Setup will not take more than 5 minutes and the software client is quick to download and registration options are built in. registered users can immediately broadcast live content, upload music from MP3’s, or select from music uploaded by other ubroadcast members.

A new German company is launching their new game search engine with a raised funding of $11million and would like to through competition to big American companies like IGM, Google and other supremo. The Company "WAZAP" is lead by Wellington Partners and Partech International

Wazap search engine indexes about 90000 pages of different gaming sources and a  minor percentage of the indexed data will be displayed by Wazap based on quality, user recommendations and publisher submissions and much much more.