Many in the traditional media see the rise of the Web as a threat.
Their worries were echoed by Natasha Lomas at TechCrunch who said "The Facebookification of the mobile web is a threat to openness, to choice, to privacy - but only if you care about those things".
Stepped-up regulation of social networking is seen as a particular threat to India's Web growth.
Web-based attacks pose the greatest threat to companies, giving credence to efforts to develop browser alternatives to accessing the Internet.
No other publisher has been so willing to assert, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that the digital poses no true threat to print, that the Web is something that can safely be ignored.
By far the greatest threat came from Netscape's Navigator web browser.
The company failed to realize a crop of "algorithmic" Web-search engines such as Google were a potential threat to its business.
He issued this threat to Belgium authorities on his wife's Web site on May 11 this year.
The threat of eavesdroppers on airport and coffeeshop networks has inspired Web services like Gmail and Twitter to allow users to encrypt their connection and safeguard their communications.
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The FDLE confirmed that it, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies were investigating the alleged threat, which was first reported on the Miami Herald Web site Thursday evening.
And the threat from Wal-Mart when it really gets going on the web?
Blockbuster has moved to counter the threat from Netflix, which mails movies to customers who queue up their orders online, with a Web-based service of its own.
But the early focus of the investigation suggests a potential threat to Google's plans to expand its commercial success beyond its current cash cow: the Web-search engine.
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