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Web Strategies, Users Grow Up (MultiChannel News) Younger demos may be leading the charge into online video, but adults are not far behind. Just consider YouTube, which has emerged as the 800-pound gorilla in the online video business with 77 million users - a hefty proportion of the 120 million Americans who watch video online each month. Microsoft plans workforce cut (Mad.co.uk) Microsoft is understood to be considering cutting around 10% of its global workforce in response to profit falls across the business. The move could affect the company's 3,000 employees in the UK. What Could Save The Yellow Pages? 10 Ideas (Search Engine Land) It's something of a "perfect storm" for the embattled yellow pages companies right now. Pucko: Best Case Scenarios '09 (R News) The following does not reflect the views of R News or its parent company Time Warner Cable. BEST CASE SCENARIOS "This is Jeopardy!" Best case scenarios in sports for 2009. i-rox: Where Zionism, religion, and crisis meet and thrive (Haaretz Daily) Three years after inception this win-win Haredi software house of women is profitable and doesn't need to cut flab. There isn't any Walking into the offices of i-rox Software Products, you might be forgiven for thinking it's a ghost town. Silence reigns at this company, utter silence. An Rx for Chinese Health (Foreign Policy Magazine) For decades, China has been content to let the invisible hand of the market work its magic on the country's economy. But there's one area where the government wants to reassert state control: healthcare. India's New Deal (Foreign Policy Magazine) On a recent morning in a village in eastern India, Hirya Devi, a rail-thin woman in a tangerine sari, told a crowd of a few hundred poor laborers how she came to participate in the largest employment program in human history. Letters to the Editor (Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel) How many more civilian men, women, and children will be killed by Israel before the U.S. government tells them to stop. I believe in self-defense, and it is stupid for Hamas (or any other group) to attack Israel with ''homemade'' weapons, but this collective punishment is wrong. Following footsteps (The Augusta Chronicle) Fred Daitch is constantly on the move. Company scores with fan fests (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) Sports fan Joe Gallagher's St. Paul-based FILO Productions is earning entrepreneurial points producing events for the NBA and numerous fans.
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