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27 Jul 09

The painful cost to Israel of its settler adventure - Haaretz - Israel News

  • The settlement movement has cost Israel some $100 billion over the past 40 years.
  • For decades, the enormous burdens of guarding settlements, policing roadblocks and maintaining the far-reaching bureaucracy of occupation have robbed the IDF of vitally needed resources of time and funding for military training.

Arrests raise concerns over Egypt’s tolerance - The National Newspaper

  • It remains unclear whether Egypt’s security forces are responding to popular anti-Shiite sentiment among the country’s majority Sunni population or if security officials believe that Egypt’s estimated 750,000 Shiites actually represent a legitimate security threat as a potential “fifth column” for the rising influence of Shiite-majority Iran.
29 Jun 09

Reader’s Digest Moves Right of Middle-America - NYTimes.com

  • Reader’s Digest is decreasing its circulation to 5.5 million from 8 million and lowering its frequency to 10 times a year from 12.
  • “Magazines and cable channels are trying to figure out what they can add to the mix if people already have the basic facts from the Internet and elsewhere,” said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. “A lot of them will aspire to do that around ideology, because it’s the easiest way, the simplest way, to organize an audience.”
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Dell Says It Has Earned $3 Million From Twitter - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

  • Dell said Thursday night that the company had earned $3 million in revenue directly through Twitter since 2007, when it started posting coupons and word of new products on the microblogging site.
  • In the last six months, Dell Outlet earned $1 million in sales from customers who came to the site from Twitter, after taking 18 months to earn its first $1 million. Dell has also earned another $1 million from people who click from Twitter to Dell Outlet to Dell.com and make a purchase there.
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19 Jun 09

Internet Advertising Revenues at $5.5 Billion in Q1 ’09

  • In a recessionary environment that has hit other media sectors with greater force, Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. were at $5.5 billion for the first quarter of 2009, according to the numbers released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). The figure represents a 5% decline over the same period in 2008.
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