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China’s high-flying Internet stocks are about to get a major addition when B2B marketplace Alibaba goes public on November 6. The IPO is on track to raise $1.5 billion for the Chinese Internet company, according to Bloomberg. That would make it the second-biggest Internet IPO ever, after Google’s $1.9 billion offering in 2004. [Techcrunch]

Just weeks ago Chinese video sharing site Tudou.com has claimed that it has surpassed YouTube.com as the world’s largest similar websites.

Time to tap into Chinese market perhaps?

BBC wrote an interesting article ‘15 reasons Facebook may be worth $15bn’ following Microsoft stakes buying of the social network side which valued it with a market worth of $15bn…

I like their last point actually…

Facebook is worth $15bn only because Microsoft says so. The value of Facebook is based on a 1.6% share of the firm being worth the $240m Microsoft paid for it. Microsoft and Google were in a bidding war for a slice of the firm and both companies have large pockets. This was not just business, this was personal, according to some analysts.

Read their article for the other 14.

Microsoft has paid $240m for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the hugely popular social networking site at $15bn.

Facebook spurned an offer from Microsoft’s rival Google, which was also keen to invest the site.

Microsoft will also sell internet ads for Facebook outside the United States as part of the deal that took several weeks of negotiating.

Microsoft already provides banner advertising and links on the US site. [BBC]

$15bn… does Facebook really worth that much?

It seems like Google is going on a witch hunting against sites that are participating in some link scheme, by lowering the Page Rank of those sites.

At the moment some big names are having their PR downgraded. Sites that worked in a blogging network seem like the most affected group.

Searchengineland compiled a good list of some major sites that saw their PR downgraded thus far…
http://searchengineland.com/071024-093938.php

100 favourite blogs according to PC Magazine’s staff; check it out…

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2192058,00.asp

Skellie has guest-blogged an interesting article at Problogger - Building Your Blog With StumbleUpon. Here are some points she shared…

1. Connect with other bloggers
2. Drive traffic back to your blog with great stumbles
3. Highlight your blog in your StumbleUpon profile
4. Connect with your readers
5. Make friends for a more powerful profile
6. To submit or not to submit?
7. Send great content to your friends
8. Create a profile people will visit for its own sake
9. Use it for inspiration
10. Have fun!

Read the full contents at Skellie’s post.

Google has announced a new advertising program, AdSense for Mobile, a contextually targeted ad platform for mobile website content.

AdSense for Mobile gives the ability to AdSense publishing partners to earn revenue from their mobile websites through the targeted placement of mobile text ads.

[Google press release, via Techcrunch]

TOP 100 Make Money Online Blogs by 45n5.com

Informative, and a masterpiece of linkbait material.