Online media is now facing a number of challenges. Starting from the presence of social media to mobile with a variety of platforms and operating systems. Everything is forcing businesses to devise strategies online.

“We think we give people access the web then. That was then. Now we must try to distribute,” said Edi Taslim, GM Kompas.com in the conference “New Media: Hosts in the Land Alone”.

Edi said, one of the openings to distribute content via mobile is. A large number of handsets in the communities with the ability to make mobile Internet access becomes a potential. Unfortunately, mobile development also has challenges. The number of mobile platforms and operating systems are not little.

“We know there is Android, IOS, Symbian, Blackberry. That’s great. The small lot,” said Edi. To be able to distribute content, a variety of platforms should be tilled. In the presentation, Edi New York Times describes the mission to develop and distribute content to all platforms. (more…)

Bank of America’s leading, Morgan Stanley, on Wednesday said the acquisition of its profits soared up to 1.96 billion dollars in the second quarter. Better performance in business helped the company build a trading profit of 149 million dollars in the same period last year and strong gains from the first three months of 2010. Results-based company in New York came supported an increase in revenues 53 per cent to 7.95 billions of dollars versus the same period of last year. That was offset by 361 million dollars to pay for the cost of a new British tax on bonuses.

“The challenging market this quarter … we will strengthen the leading market position in investment banking business that focuses on our clients (and) improve the flow of clients in sales and trading,” said CEO James Gorman. But he warned that the decline continued in many major economies will present difficulties. “We still have a lot of work to be done across our global franchise and anticipates that the difficult market environment can continue in coming months,” he said.