Real estate mapper Zillow has just become the latest Internet company to put an IPO into the pipeline. The company filed a statement with the SEC that will let it sell more than $50 million of stock. The Seattle-based company, which maintains interactive maps of house prices, did not reveal how many shares it would sell or what price it would sell them at. But its S-1 form indicates it generated $30.5 million in revenue in 2010, a 75% growth over the previous year. Zillow isn’t profitable yet, but it is closing the gap. In 2009, the startup had a net loss of about $21.2 million. In 2010, it lost $6.7 million. Zillow is only the latest tech company to file for an IPO
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Twitter In Talks To Buy TweetDeck [REPORT]
Twitter is in talks to purchase TweetDeck Inc. for $50 million, according to the Wall Street Journal . TweetDeck is one of the most popular third-party Twitter clients, available in desktop, iPad, iPhone and Android versions. It displays your Twitter news feed, @mentions and direct messages, along with your Facebook feeds — all on the same screen, all updating in real time. TweetDeck can also support updates from MySpace, LinkedIn and Foursquare. The 15-person company, based in the U.K., has never revealed how many users TweetDeck has. The number may be small — but it is also likely to include the most obsessive power users in social media. The report comes days after CNN reported that UberMedia, the company behind Twitter clients Echofon and Twidroyd, was working on a potential Twitter competitor
Why You Should Use a World SIM Card For Travel
So what is the big deal about using a world SIM card when you are traveling abroad?
For one, it is the reduced costs that you can benefit from apart from knowing that you will be seamlessly connected regardless of which country you are in. The number of countries that support certain international phones is about 230 plus in number so you can just imagine how easy it will be for you to have decent connection.
So your next question might be where you can find information pertinent to these phones and a global SIM card that is just right for you.
One place where you can find information regarding these services is over the Internet. There are certain sites that have been designed to showcase these products to interested buyers. Not only will you be able to find international prepaid cell phones but SIM cards as well apart from the costs involved in purchasing and using them regularly.
No matter what choice you make, you will find that these services can be customized to your travel needs, thus, ensuring you that you will end up saving a lot more money than you expected. In doing so, you can then rest easy as your family members and colleagues can both get in touch with you if they need to for any particular reason, and you can get in touch with them knowing that you would not be racking up a large bill once you get back home.
A Comparison of The MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Compression Formats
Multimedia applications of today commonly use the MPEG format, which are also known as audio/video compression formats differing in quality and size with each new version of MPEG format that is released these days.
There are two of these formats that are normally used, and are normally referred to as the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 versions, and so here is a comparison of both types of formats.
#1: Quality
Since the MPEG-2 is normally used for DVD and digital television technology, its use is compromised when it comes to multimedia network applications. This is why the MPEG-4 format has been designed for this very purpose, especially for the internet.
#2: File Size
This one is simple. Between the compression formats, the MPEG-4 format takes up very less memory in terms of the size of a file. This is because the MPEG-4 format has been designed for the internet which needs to be smaller in size so that it can be transferred over the internet. MPEG-2 does not need to work within the same limitations and is thus larger in size.
#3: Bit rate
While the bit rate for MPEG-2 files is about 4 to 9 MB/s, there is a big difference between these values and those of the MPEG-4 format which is merely a few Kilobytes per second. And yet again the reason for this is because the MPEG format has been designed for network applications that will not be able to support the bit rates of the MPEG-2 format.
Benefits of the Amazon Kindle 3
Among all the other e-reader devices that are in the market today, the one that has captured the attention of most voracious readers is the Amazon Kindle 3. There are several reasons why this device is considered to be the top-notch and way ahead of its competitors.
Here is a list of benefits which validate why the Kindle 3 is so popular:
#1: One of the most basic functions that the Kindle 3 has is its text-to-speech functionality.
#2: You can access the web in wireless mode using this device.
#3: The device possesses the largest number of font sizes than any of its competitors.
#4: It is easily compatible with the Kindle app that has been developed for a variety of platforms and operating systems.
#5: You can buy your favorite e-Books and email them to Kindle 3 at no cost at all.
#6: It is much cheaper than all its competitors in the market today.
#7: Features such as longer battery life and a speaker not to mention having a larger internal memory is what gives it an edge over its competitors.
#8: There is a variety of choice when it comes to magazines, newspapers, and books. And the best part of it all is the fact that the eBooks available are much cheaper than the variants offered by its competition.
#9: Not only does it work better in landscape mode but it also adjusts line spacing and margins much better than its competitors.
#10: But most of all, it is available in over 170 countries around the world.