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Competition for building a profitable Web site is quite fierce. Yet many of us have dreams of a unique concept that will attract viewers, followed soon thereafter by advertisers. I’m not sure what percentage of aspirants succeed in this quest, but I would venture to guess that it’s a very low percentage. With the evolution of the Web to the Web 2.0, the task becomes even a bit more challenging. Though the competition is fierce in the Web 2.0 space, it’s encouraging to see a recently formed company quickly create critical mass.

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Building a Profitable Web 2.0 Web Site

Sometimes you walk away from a user group meeting concluding that the company didn’t introduce much that was really new. You might get the usual product announcements or the dot-version releases and you may take a course that makes you a little smarter about the fine points of some esoteric feature that helps you to do your job. You might say that such gatherings are evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Last week’s Oracle OpenWorld was nothing like that.

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Oracle’s OpenWorld Revolution

Yahoo is starting its first full week with an updated board of directors and a fresh outlook for the future. Former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi Jr. and former Nextel CEO John Chapple — both recommended by outspoken shareholder-turned-board-member Carl Icahn — were officially appointed to leadership roles Thursday. Now, the company will try to find the path away from public battles and into success. Icahn, for his part, has yet to reveal a formal plan to turn the company around. He initially promised a “quick sale” to Microsoft, but that notion is looking less and less likely.

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Chapter 2 in Yahoo’s Summer of Drama

T-Mobile may be partnering with cell phone handset manufacturer HTC to deliver the first smartphone running Google’s Android platform, according to reports. Unnamed sources briefed on T-Mobile’s plans have said the carrier could announce the phone as early as September — and would almost certainly have an offering out in the wild as early as October, in time for the holiday selling season. Another report goes a few steps further: It cites an unofficial T-Mobile blog that claimed the new phone, to be called the “G1,” would launch Sept. 17 to T-Mobile customers only.

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Will HTC and T-Mobile Get Android’s Gears Spinning?

Nvidia this week released second-quarter earnings that its CEO deemed “disappointing.” However, future projections of growth, as well as an increase to its stock buyback program, boosted its stock price by about 10 percent on Wednesday as Wall Street decided to focus on the firm’s future prospects. In Q2, which ended July 27, revenue sank to $892.7 million, compared to $935.3 million for the second quarter of the previous year, a decrease of 5 percent. The company realized a net loss of $120.9 million, or a loss of 22 cents per share.

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Nvidia Shares Rise on Bright Future Despite Dim Q2