Karen Streatham

Started out as a social network in 2004, the private company founded by the young Mark Zuckerberg has now recognized as a fast-growing business model.

Toshiba Corporation announced this week that they have ventured into a new type of business, which is the modular data center business. They announced the completion of a prototype modular design at a display facility housed at its Fuchu Complex in western Tokyo. This is their introduction into the Japanese market. The company also said that it has major plans in store which involve vigorous marketing campaigns as the business continues to grow worldwide.

The environmental activist group Greenpeace International have recently launched a very interesting campaign against the Facebook social network and their contracting with a power utility that will mostly use coal to power their new data center in Oregon.

The opportunities for generating income on the internet are almost endless. Here's how new technologies are making it easier than ever to generate income from the internet.

As robotics technology becomes simultaneously cheaper and more advanced, many home owners are beginning to add robot power to their home security systems.

Following new international legislation and the creation of regulatory bodies for monitoring the trade in domain names, 2010 has seen an unprecedented number of applications for domain name registration. While the first decade and a half of internet usage saw the creation of some 100 million websites, this number has more than doubled in the past four years alone, according to a report from the UK website statistics company Webuser.

A camping, hiking and outdoor sporting retailer based in the Western United States has undertaken a complete overhaul of its website. The company, Sierra Trading Post, has embraced the recent trend for creating positive user experiences with updated transactional website features to generate additional revenues.

As the international body of academic work grows at an astonishing rate, facilitated by the increasing use of web hosting publication platforms for scholarly material, professors are picking up more modern methods in an effort to combat plagiarism.

In the pursuit of News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch's internet model for paid content, yet another UK publication has removed it's free website content in favour of putting up a pay wall.