The past weeks saw a huge decrease of shares in almost all world’s stock markets. Most of the big companies will report big loses for the 1st quarter of the year with marches bigger than what we have seen in the past decade. Of course the reasons for this are not only in the US economy or the begging of the end of 2nd Bush era.

We cannot seek them in the Iraq’s war consequences or the continuing Kosovo drama, the forthcoming presidential elections in Russia or even the threatening bank crisis caused by the millions of people failed to pay for their mortgages.

If all this ca be combined, then the picture may be almost full, but not clear. Anyways, all this is causing probably the biggest market crisis we have been witnessed - not because it is close to the 1929 recession but because it will reflect on all industries, companies and businesses in the world.

Lets talk about the web industry - why this is so dangerous?!

These days we see each and every firm to have internet website business or just a blog or simple presentation page. I think that in recent years a lot of the profit the companies do is coming from their internet existence. Not only those whose business is related with the information technologies but and for those who use the web to market their goods or services.

As it happens in most cases, there are people who loose and some who make a profit from situations like this one. When it comes to internet industry it is not hard to think about some players with important roles in all this. They will not be affected at all - the fact is that the big companies will be the winners from all this. Its necessary just to mention the intentions of Microsoft to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion (?!Not that bad ah!?). This will be big boost for both the web and the competitors of Microsoft - Google.

Google showed already its fears of possible merge of two of its biggest competitors but in the end this will be a good ground to renew the rivalry.

The point is that in a long period of time this may reflect the positioning of these companies but it is evident that the somethings are larger than the recent fall of the economy in the US. The winners will stay the same - their monopoly will be increased and the major conclusion can be that whatever happens, as far as there are no concrete regulations of the way the web is developing - it will not be harmed by any reflections of conventional life (which is good).

Categories: Web Industry
Tags: blog-marketing, business model, companies, company, consumer, global-economy, google, internet, microsoft, new-technologies, politics, Politics & Economy, technology, yahoo