SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook will likely be posting billions of dollars in revenue in five years, up from about $500 million this year, according to Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mark Andreessen who sits on Facebook's board. Andreessen told Reuters that the world's most popular online social network could pile up $1 billion in revenue this year if it pushed harder on selling advertising. But he added that it was more important at this stage for social sites like Facebook and Twitter to retain and grow their user base and capture market share, rather than worry too much about making lots of money right away. "This calendar year they'll do over $500 million," Andreessen said in an interview, noting that Facebook has more than 225 million users, so revenue per user is still small. "If they pushed the throttle forward on monetization they would be doing more than a billion this year," said Andreessen, who made the cover of Time Magazine as founder of the world's first Web browser company, Netscape.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook will likely be posting billions of dollars in revenue in five years, up from about $500 million this year, according to Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mark Andreessen who sits on Facebook's board.
Andreessen told Reuters that the world's most popular online social network could pile up $1 billion in revenue this year if it pushed harder on selling advertising.
But he added that it was more important at this stage for social sites like Facebook and Twitter to retain and grow their user base and capture market share, rather than worry too much about making lots of money right away.
"This calendar year they'll do over $500 million," Andreessen said in an interview, noting that Facebook has more than 225 million users, so revenue per user is still small.
"If they pushed the throttle forward on monetization they would be doing more than a billion this year," said Andreessen, who made the cover of Time Magazine as founder of the world's first Web browser company, Netscape.
The fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, having stood empty since its completion in 1841, has, since 1999, been host to a succession of artworks.
The latest opened today: the sculptor Antony Gormley is choosing (by random selection from applicants) 2400 members of the public to stand on the plinth for one hour each.
The use of unmanned drones as weapons of war in conflicts around the world has been called into question by one of Britain's most senior judges. Lord Bingham, until last year the senior law lord, said that some weapons were so "cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance". In an interview with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Lord Bingham compared drones, which have killed hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Gaza, with cluster bombs and landmines. His comments are bound to intensify calls for new international rules to protect civilian populations from arbitrary attacks launched by the pilotless craft.
In an interview with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Lord Bingham compared drones, which have killed hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Gaza, with cluster bombs and landmines.
His comments are bound to intensify calls for new international rules to protect civilian populations from arbitrary attacks launched by the pilotless craft.
It's not like the unmanned aircraft aren't piloted, it's just that the pilot isn't in the plane. But maybe this guy wants to ban missiles too? Maybe even bullets?
It's the same silliness about mines and cluster bombs. It's perfectly possible to make cluster bomb submunitions which don't hang around for more than a few hours, and you can put in timers in land mines too. The problems aren't mines and cluster bombs in general, but badly engineered ones.
If he wants to talk about weapons which are "cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance" I'd recomend him checking out perfectly ordinary artillery shells or standard HMG rounds. But I guess they're not as sexy... Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Drinking five cups of coffee a day could reverse memory problems seen in Alzheimer's disease, US scientists say. The Florida research, carried out on mice, also suggested caffeine hampered the production of the protein plaques which are the hallmark of the disease. Previous research has also suggested a protective effect from caffeine. But British experts said the Journal of Alzheimer's disease study did not mean that dementia patients should start using caffeine supplements.
The Florida research, carried out on mice, also suggested caffeine hampered the production of the protein plaques which are the hallmark of the disease.
Previous research has also suggested a protective effect from caffeine.
But British experts said the Journal of Alzheimer's disease study did not mean that dementia patients should start using caffeine supplements.
My dad has dementia and due to other problems he wasn't getting more than an hour or two of sleep each night which compounded the problem. Since he is sleeping better he has made some improvement. I don't think I'll be rushing to tell him to drink more coffee.
But apparently a curry a day helps stave off dementia, so let's all live on a diet of curry and coffee and the problem is solved. Ad astra per aspera
Drinking five cups of coffee a day
I'll assume this translates to roughly 3 venti French roasts from Starbucks. I'm good well into my sixth or seventh life. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Nairobi -- Two studies on donor health funding for regions like East Africa recently reached the same controversial conclusion -- that aid money often does not go to the right countries and diseases, and in some cases serves to weaken public health systems. The studies, whose findings were published recently in the medical journal Lancet, were among others designed to establish whether health funding was having a significant positive impact on health outcomes in recipient countries.
The studies, whose findings were published recently in the medical journal Lancet, were among others designed to establish whether health funding was having a significant positive impact on health outcomes in recipient countries.
According to the WHO report there is significant evidence, for example, that donor-supported programmes for such diseases as HIV/Aids and malaria had drawn health workers from public health sectors with better pay and working conditions, thus weakening the very systems they were supposed to support.
They are superheroes battling injustice and fighting evil the Islamic way, and they are teaming up with some of the west's biggest comic book icons. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are among those joining forces with The 99, who personify the 99 attributes of Allah, according to Islamic tradition.What will unfold on the pages of the collaboration between DC Comics in the US and Teshkeel Comics in Kuwait is yet to be seen, but the appearance of The 99 - who already appear in comics in the Muslim world - alongside archetypal American heroes would have been unlikely during the Bush years. DC Comics' president and publisher, Paul Levitz, believes the cross-cultural project is unprecedented.He said: "It is a long-standing tradition for characters to meet others in the fictional world, and over the years a lot of the superheroes have been translated into Arabic, taking on ethnic elements. But this is a nice step forward. The most difficult creative test is when you are working with the least precedent and when you're trying to reach an audience that has a different cultural bias and different interests."
They are superheroes battling injustice and fighting evil the Islamic way, and they are teaming up with some of the west's biggest comic book icons. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are among those joining forces with The 99, who personify the 99 attributes of Allah, according to Islamic tradition.
What will unfold on the pages of the collaboration between DC Comics in the US and Teshkeel Comics in Kuwait is yet to be seen, but the appearance of The 99 - who already appear in comics in the Muslim world - alongside archetypal American heroes would have been unlikely during the Bush years. DC Comics' president and publisher, Paul Levitz, believes the cross-cultural project is unprecedented.
He said: "It is a long-standing tradition for characters to meet others in the fictional world, and over the years a lot of the superheroes have been translated into Arabic, taking on ethnic elements. But this is a nice step forward. The most difficult creative test is when you are working with the least precedent and when you're trying to reach an audience that has a different cultural bias and different interests."
