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YouTube’s Big Challenge: Making a Profit

Any major changes could possibly affect the popularity of the site.  We’ll see how it turns out!

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YouTube’s big challenge: Making a profit

Google Inc. has tried for three years to turn YouTube into an advertising platform, and it’s now aggressively pushing new ad formats and sealing deals with media companies.

These deals are part of YouTube’s new revenue-generating strategy – a monumental effort the company has tapped Google veteran Salar Kamangar to oversee. More high-profile shows help it attract higher ad rates.
YouTube advertising on computer screen

While YouTube continues to lose money, Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette told analysts he was “really pleased” with YouTube’s revenue growth and said it will be profitable “in the not long, too long distant future.” Some analysts estimate YouTube’s revenue will roughly double to about $500 million in 2009, because of its advertising pushes.

“We can’t be successful unless our partners are successful and making money,” Kamangar said.

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China reduces Treasury holdings, looks to buy mortgage securities

Bad news for Fannie and Freddie!

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China reduces Treasury holdings, looks to buy mortgage securities

August 18th, 2009

China cut its holding of U.S. Treasury debt from about $800 billion in May to a bit more than $774 billion in June. Other foreign countries, notably Japan and the UK, have increased their holdings of U.S. debt.

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Foreign investors were less interested in purchases of debt issued by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Those purchases totaled $5.1 billion in June, compared with $12.8 billion in purchases in May.

A report from Reuters cites anonymous sources saying that China’s sovereign wealth fund is looking to invest about $2 billion in U.S. mortgage-backed securities through the Public-Private Investment Plan (PIPP), which subsidizes purchases of toxic bank securities with taxpayer funds.ADNFCR-2530-ID-19318698-ADNFCR

Tags: bank, britain, china, debt, fannie mae, freddie mac, international, Japan, securities, treasury, united states
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Overseas Investors Picking Up Bargains

Investors who are willing to go overseas are scoring some great deals, it looks like.

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London Calling: Investors Jump At Overseas Luxury Properties

August 5th, 2009

Overseas investors, particularly those from Asia and the Middle East, have been snatching up prime real estate in central London worth more than £1 million ($1.7 million), jumping at the reduced prices in one of the world’s highest demand real estate markets.

The July index from UK real estate firm Knight Frank shows that overseas property investors have jumped from 35 percent of investors in the second quarter of 2008 to 43 percent in the second quarter of this year, according to PropertyWire.

However, time is running short for the best deals, as supply is running low and prices are starting to rebound [...]

Continued at Direct Investor News: London Calling: Investors Jump At Overseas Luxury Properties

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