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Cloud computing is on the rise. But as organizations get their data and work on the cloud, data jurisdiction can be questionable, especially if data centers are offshore. With this in mind, a potential concern with cloud computing is data sovereignty, and Australian states are debating the issue, particularly with regard to storage of sensitive and private citizen data.

It's unusual for the European Union -- which is normally a real stickler for individual privacy -- to be following the U.S. in a user privacy issue, but the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda is calling for the E.U. to adopt "do not track" legislation similar to that the U.S. is working on. 

Cloud computing is not only useful for enterprises but it also can be beneficial for the economy of a county, country or a whole continent. A recently released Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR ) report states that Europe alone can gain 763bn Euros in five years, if it rides the cloud.

In order for real communication to happen, especially among people from different regions and dialects (let alone people from different countries and languages altogether), terms have to be clearly defined so that everyone is starting from the same point. The problem with such definitions is that the devil really is in the details.

On January 1, 2006, Rick Falkvinge set up a web page for the Swedish Pirate Party. He mentioned the address in a single chat room, and within 24 hours he had over the 2,000 signatures he needed for the party to participate in the upcoming election.

What do these pirates want? With such a name it can be hard to take the party seriously, but politicians are taking notice now and so should you. The Swedish Pirate Party now has a seat in the EU Parliament, two if the Treaty of Lisbon goes into affect, changing various aspects of how the EU's government works. And the party has spread far beyond the EU. It might even be in your own back yard.

With the recent boom in mobile Web users, British and European markets are eager to capitalize on these mobile trends by employing the means to measure their impact effectively and dynamically, approaches which haven’t been possible.

Until now…

European company Xtract, innovator of social advertising intelligence announced that it has closed its series B round of funding from “leading early-stage technology investors” Creandum, Eqvitec Partners and InnovationsKapital.

Such funding is evident of the eager interest Venture Capitalists have shown towards excavating social web data in an effort to jump on the mobile band wagon.

It also gives Xtract a financial boost towards expanding its market outside Europe.