Thus you have recently listed Internet content provider 36.com warning potential shareholders that the company may never make a profit.

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It was conceived in 1995 as a proprietary service as AOL had been, then reinvented as a straight Internet access provider, then it ventured into content and online "channels, " even trying to produce Web sitcoms.

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Broadcast media outlets, once dominated by local content and protected by local licenses, are competing with global Internet Service Providers looking to establish themselves as the trusted provider of global content across multiple markets.

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If ever an Internet and software house blew its evolution into a content provider, Microsoft gets my palm.

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