Many of you may have been around when I announced the launch of Vurta Web Hosting, some 1 year 5 months and 24 days ago. Now I’m proud to announce the online launch of another venture I’ve been working on (amazingly, with pen and paper, until now!) – Vurta Clothing. In a nutshell, Vurta Clothing [...]
Everyone around me wants to start a new business. Everyone wants to be the next greatest entrepreneur. But 99.9% of them seem to lack the understanding that a business plan is not just important, but vital. When launching a new venture or expanding on an existing one, the most important step will be the construction [...]
Starbucks opened its first coffee shop in Russia on Thursday, two years after it won a legal battle to protect the right to its brand in the fast-growing Russian market. “This is an important step for the company, and we are looking forward to being a part of every day life for Russians,” said Cliff [...]
Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight household items for Western markets, expressed his disbelief Monday over the “sheer amount of sh*t Americans will buy.” “Often, when we’re assigned a new order for, say, ‘salad shooters,’ I will say to myself, ‘There’s no way that anyone [...]
YouTube has secured an agreement with the UK societies that collect royalties for 50,000 composers, songwriters and publishers to legitimise the use of recorded music on Google’s popular video-sharing website. The agreement to license 10m pieces of music to YouTube – in return for a flat fee which has not been disclosed – is the [...]
Check out the new MSN.com website here I think this is a fantastic advertising idea, and finally demonstrates that Microsoft does have some creative minds at work. When I first saw the website, and I’m sure some of you experienced the same, I actually froze for a second and thought “what is going on?”. I’m [...]
Soon enough, Google really is going to control all information on the Internet. $1.65B also doesn’t seem that much in comparison to other business buyouts, takeovers and purchases. Google, the Internet’s leading search engine, announced Monday that it is buying popular online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. YouTube, which was founded in [...]
Vurta has been up for a while now, our datacenter is the core to our business. Without it, there would be no Vurta. Our servers power our business. Because of this, we have strict guidelines on how our systems are setup, managed, and kept. As always, safety is a priority too. Take a look: Actually, [...]
Alright. I’ve been extremely busy with the launch of Vurta, hence a long time since my last update. Firstly, thanks to everyone for visiting, even if it has only been for a free Moola or Google Analytics invite. Vurta is a web hosting company set up by a bunch of people including myself. Since the [...]
I’m sure we’ve all been to YouTube.com, a place where honestly, you can pretty much find videos on just about anything and everything. In fact, I’ve seen people manage to spend an entire day on sites like YouTube; watching video after video. Here’s an interesting extract about YouTube from eWEEK: YouTube, the leader in Internet [...]