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Weekly internet update

The North East Regional Portal’s head of e-business, Pascal Fintoni, shares his take on the latest in the world of internet marketing…

In the news: Amazon announced last week that they are to launch a new online video store featuring over 40,000 films and TV programmes, reports WebProNews. Unlike other online store including iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand users will not have to wait for films to download as they will be available in streaming.

Vnunet.com reports the large rise on online spend in China during the first half of this year. The article claims that the Chinese surfers spent over $35 billion on internet services between January and June, that’s a rise of almost 60% when compared with the same period in 2007.

Podcasting has rapidly evolved from latest fad to essential business activity. e-consultancy clearly recognises this and has put together a top five cool podcasting tools for those looking to begin telling the world about their business.Â

The Guardian reports Google’s victory over Microsoft after the former beat the latter to first place as Britain’s top ‘superbrand’. Despite falling to second place for the first time, Microsoft still placed ahead of rivals Apple, as well as fellow heavyweights Sony, BMW, Bosch and Nike.

Plug of the week: Video case studies of four entrepreneurs who began trading on eBay 18 months ago are now available via online ebusiness community Webetopia. All four received funding based on the strength of their business idea as part of the YouTrade competition. For more information about YouTrade visit www.webetopia.com/youtrade.

Story of the week: Social networking site Facebook is suing German counterpart StudiVZ after claiming that the site had copied ‘entire portions of the sites design’. The author of the article in e-consultancy claims that Facebook have known about the supposed copying for some time.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .