Google became the latest company to announce cloud-based movie and music services this week, joining online retailer Amazon.com in the market for web-based digital content.

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Earlier this week, news broke that Seattle-based QuestionPro, a leading web-survey and market research company, has acquired Pollbob, a New Orleans-based startup at the forefront of the mobile social polling space.

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These gave the legal protection necessary when processing personal data belonging to EU citizens: A prerequisite when providing Web-based services to the European market.

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It brings the company face-to face against close partner SAP and rivals Oracle and Salesforce.com Inc, the largest maker of web-based software in a crowded market.

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According to the data, the market for Web-based training will rise from just under 1 million users in 1999 to close to 2 million this year, and up to more than 5 million by 2002.

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Google recently provided a glimpse of a Web-based music store within its Android Market, which sells apps for phones built with Google's Android mobile software.

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In the past five years alone, small startups like PracticeFusion have already grabbed 18% of the EHR market with their free web-based EHR.

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MSN's new "Everyday Web" theme stresses personalized information and Web-based utilities such as Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service, not mass-market content.

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