Retiring Google Affiliate Network services

Dear Publisher, As you may have read in our recent email, we've made the difficult decision to retire Google Affiliate Network (GAN). According to your GAN Online Program Terms and Conditions and AdSense Terms and Conditions, we will suspend all GAN services, except for certain reporting and payments functionality, on July 31, 2013. On October 31, 2013, we will suspend and terminate any remaining GAN services. Publisher payments will be disbursed for your GAN network activity generated through July 31, 2013. For clarity, the last day that new activity will be tracked through GAN (including conversions) is July 31, 2013. Affiliate publishers can continue to earn AdSense revenue through the AdSense network. Thanks for your support of our affiliate product, and we look forward to helping you grow your business in the future. Sincerely, The Google Affiliate Network Team   GOOGLE AFFILIATE NETWORK RESOURCES   Google Affiliate Network Blog     Visit our Help Center and find answers to your questions

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Dropbox versi Indonesia Meluncur

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dropbox, layanan gratis yang
memungkinkan Anda membawa dokumen, foto, dan video ke mana saja dan
membaginya dengan mudah, mengumumkan ketersediaannya dalam bahasa
Indonesia. Mulai hari ini, Dropbox dalam bahasa Indonesia tersedia untuk
PC, Mac, Linux, Android, dan di Web, sedangkan untuk iOS menyusul
beberapa minggu lagi.

"Di Dropbox, kami merancang teknologi yang memudahkan kehidupan
manusia di seluruh penjuru dunia," kata Drew Houston, pendiri dan CEO
Dropbox. "Peluncuran dalam bahasa setempat merupakan bagian penting
untuk mewujudkan pengalaman yang tanpa batas itu."

Dropbox mengalami pertumbuhan di atas 500 persen dalam setahun terakhir
di Indonesia, dengan lebih dari 20 persen pengguna mengakses Dropbox via
Android dan lebih dari lima juta file disimpan setiap harinya. Bahkan,
jumlah tautan berbagi yang dibuat setiap minggunya sama dengan jumlah
pulau di Indonesia -- 17.000. Untuk fakta menarik lainnya terkait
perkembangan Dropbox secara internasional, kunjungi :
www.dropbox.com/explore/languages.

Saat ini Dropbox tersedia dalam lima belas bahasa: Bahasa Inggris,
Prancis, Jerman, Italia, Jepang, Korea, Spanyol Amerika Latin, Spanyol
Kastilia, Portugis Brasil dan, sekarang, Bahasa Rusia, Polandia,
Malaysia, Indonesian, China Tradisional, dan China Sederhana.

Tentang Dropbox

Dropbox menyederhanakan kehidupan jutaan orang dengan memungkinkan
mereka membawa dokumen, foto, dan video ke mana saja dan membaginya
dengan mudah. Layanan ini memiliki lebih dari 100 juta pengguna di lebih
dari 200 negara. Dropbox didirikan di San Francisco pada 2007 oleh Drew
Houston dan Arash Ferdowsi. Untuk informasi lebih lanjut, kunjungi
https://www.dropbox.com/press.

RIP... Google Affiliate Network

An update on Google Affiliate Network       Important updates for Google Affiliate Network publishers and advertisers     Our goal with Google Affiliate Network has been to help advertisers and publishers improve their performance across the affiliate ecosystem. Cost-per-action (CPA) marketing has rapidly evolved in the last few years, and we constantly evaluate our products to ensure that we're focused on the services that will have the biggest impact for our advertisers and publishers. To that end, we've made the difficult decision to retire the Google Affiliate Network and focus on other products that are driving great results for clients. Publishers can continue to earn revenue through the AdSense network. And marketers can take advantage of other CPA-oriented Google tools like Product Listing Ads, remarketing and Conversion Optimizer to drive valuable online sales and conversions. These areas are growing rapidly and we continue to invest significantly in them. We'll continue to support our customers as we wind down the product over the next few months. While we will no longer be adding new product functionality, we will maintain the platform during the transition period. We plan to disable publisher relationships from advertiser programs on July 31, 2013. Publisher payments will be disbursed for network activity generated through this date. We will continue to make certain functionality available through October 31, 2013 for retrieving reports, reconciling orders, and processing payments. A huge thanks to all our advertisers, publishers and the team that has worked tirelessly on Google Affiliate Network over the past few years. We look forward to helping you grow your business in the future. If you have any questions, please contact us. Sincerely, The Google Affiliate Network Team   Google Affiliate Network Blog

Shopzilla Moved From a Traditional Relational Database to VoltDB

With a user base of more than 40 million shoppers worldwide, Shopzilla is a leader in connecting buyers and sellers online. Each month, through both its destination websites and affiliate network, Shopzilla connects shoppers with more than 100 million products from tens of thousands of retailers.

To provide the most recent inventory of products and prices, Shopzilla moved its inventory platform from a traditional relational database to VoltDB, a specialized, open source database for high-velocity big data.

VoltDB, is an in-memory relational database, designed specifically for high performance. 

http://www.infoworld.com/d/big-data/shopzilla-buys-big-data-fast-meta-shopping-215774

Japan First Country Where Data Revenues Exceed Voice

Japan is leading the way with its advanced mobile broadband network and high adoption of gadgets, becoming the first to see data revenue surpass voice revenue. Globally, this will become a trend by 2018, says GSM Association (GSMA).

In a statement Monday, the industry body said Japan last year became the first country where data revenue surpassed voice revenue at US$48 billion and US$46.5 billion, respectively.

http://www.zdnet.com/japan-first-country-where-data-revenues-exceed-voice-7000011817/