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The International Herald Tribune
IHT.com Tech Alert
Paris, Monday, March 5, 2007
New Web sites connect lenders and borrowers
It is a little like Internet dating, but the objective is money. A Web site based in Britain, Zopa.com, and another in the United States, Prosper.com, have started businesses that connect individuals eager to borrow money to other people willing to lend, offering both sides better interest rates than banks.

Media titans clash and audiences lose
If Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson were in opposite corners in the same ring, which fighter would you bet on?

FastWeb founder turns his attention to Internet television and video-on-demand
In seven and a half years, Silvio Scaglia transformed FastWeb from a start-up with a plan to bring fiber-optic cables into houses from Milan to Palermo into a company with €1.3 billion in annual sales and 1.1 million clients.

Sober EuroNews arrives at a raucous party
In the midst of a raucous, 24 news cycle interspersed with Anna Nicole Smith funeral updates, now seems an unlikely time for a pan-European television newscaster, EuroNews, to expand in the American market with a sober, anti-conformist style best summed up by "no."

On Advertising: BBC creeping toward commercialism
With its agreement with You-Tube, the BBC is moving away from its position as a publicly funded broadcaster.

Wireless: Cellphones open front in global fight against disease
Mobile phones are being used in developing countries to get critical information on patients and medicine to and from far flung clinics.
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