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The Internet is gaining users each day -- mostly in non-English speaking regions.

That's because the web's reach is spreading fast. While it took 30 years to get two billion people online, the Internet is now adding one billion new users every four years.

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Smartling, an enterprise translation management company, created this multilingual, interactive HTML5 infographic to show who is using the Internet today around the world. Smartling believes that to create a global web, the platform must speak more languages and businesses much adjust their practices to reach new audiences in non-English speaking markets.

90% of today's web users live in non-English speaking countries. Only 13% of the world's web users live in North America. In comparison, Asia is home to 45% of web users, Europe is home to 23%, South America is home to 10%, Africa is home to 6% and the Middle East is home to 3.3%.

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The infographic highlights market share growth, ecommerce and mobile trends in South America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The amount of Arabic on the Internet -- 3% of all sites in 2011 -- has increased by 2500% since 2000. Similarly, Russian's current 3% share is up 1800% in the last decade. China added more Internet users in three years than people in the U.S. And China, India, Iran, Nigeria and Russia have added the most new Internet users in the last five years.

You can view the infographic in nine different languages -- Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portugese and Spanish -- on Smartling's website.

What do you make of these statistics? Do you think the rise of non-English speakers presents a challenge or an opportunity? Let us know in the comments.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran's supreme leader ordered Wednesday the creation of an Internet oversight agency that includes top military, security and political figures in the country's boldest attempt yet to control the web.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Supreme Council of Cyberspace will be tasked with preventing harm to Iranians who go online, state TV reported.

The report did not spell out specifically the kind of dangers that the council would tackle. But officials have in the past described two separate threats: computer viruses created by Iran's rivals aimed at sabotaging its industry, particularly its controversial nuclear program, and a "culture invasion" aimed at undermining the Islamic Republic.

Khamenei's statement follows ambitious plans announced by officials to create homegrown alternatives for Internet staples like Google, which would in effect make it unnecessary for many Iranian web users to visit any site based outside the country's borders.

The cyberspace council will be headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and includes powerful figures in the security establishment such as the intelligence chief, the commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, and the country's top police chief.

It also includes the speaker of parliament, state media chiefs, government ministers in charge of technology-oriented portfolios, and several cyber experts.

"Given the need to make constant plans to protect (Iranian users) from harm resulting from (the Internet) requires a concentrated center for policy-making, decision-making and coordination in the country's cyberspace," Khamenei said in his decree.

Khamenei's order for creation of the council follows a series of high-profile crackdowns on cyberspace including efforts to block opposition sites and setting up special teams for what Iran calls its "soft war" counter-measures against the West and allies.

Iran has blamed Israel and the U.S. for Stuxnet, the powerful virus that targeted Iran's nuclear facilities and other industrial sites in 2010. Tehran acknowledged the malicious software affected a limited number of centrifuges a key component in nuclear fuel production. But Iran has said its scientists discovered and neutralized the malware before it could cause serious damage.

Tehran's perception of threats extends beyond viruses, however.

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SEO Positive is proud to announce the acquisition of a search engine optimisation contract with top London university body Brunel Business School.

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Brunel Business School approached SEO Positive in late 2011 searching for an SEO company with proven experience in their field. The organisation wishes to promote its business management programme and, as such, the campaign devised by the search specialists at the agency will focus on raising the profile of the organisations London MBA qualification, which is renowned as one of the most credible in the country.

The team will boost awareness of the School by improving the assigned websites rankings within the major search engines for relevant search terms, thus boosting traffic to the domain and encouraging greater interest in everything the Brunel Business School has to offer.

Matt Wood, Head of Search at SEO Positive and one of the search experts responsible for the smooth running of the SEO campaign, is delighted by the news.

Working with such a reputable body as Brunel University is fantastic for us and we look forward to generating an impressive return on investment for the organisation, Matt states.

SEO Positive was established in 2007 in Chelmsford, Essex with the aim of bringing effective yet affordable online marketing services to companies from all industries and backgrounds. The company offers a huge range of services including search engine optimisation, Pay Per Click account management, social media marketing and online reputation control.

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The Court has rejected claims made by BT and TalkTalk that the Digital Economy Act (DEA) violates EU laws. The ruling has been welcomed by the Government and representatives of the creative industries, but may yet be appealed by the ISPs to the UK Supreme Court.

We are pleased the Appeal Court has upheld the original ruling that the Digital Economy Act is a lawful and proportionate response to the threat posed by online piracy," a spokesperson for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said in a statement.

The DEA is a controversial law that includes provisions aimed at combating online copyright infringement.

In a judicial review ruling in April last year the High Court rejected claims by the ISPs that the DEA violated EU laws.

According to a summary of the Court of Appeal judgment by a coalition of creative industry bodies, the ISPs argued that the DEA breached EU laws on data protection and privacy. BT and TalkTalk also failed to convince the Court that the Act was "incompatible" with provisions set out in the E-Commerce Directive. The Court also rejected claims made by the ISPs that the DEA was unlawful because the Government had failed to give the European Commission enough time to scrutinise parts of the legislation, according to the bodies.

However, the ISPs did successfully argue that they should not be required to pay 25% of the "case fees" that would stem from ISP customers bringing appeals against warning letters they could receive for allegedly infringing copyright under measures allowed for by the DEA. The ISPs will still have to pay 25% of the costs they incur to comply with their obligations under the Act after the Court ruled that it was lawful to impose the charge on them, according to the creative industry bodies' summary.

The measures were always going to have to strike a balance between ISPs and rights holders and the court has decided that the balance struck by the Digital Economy Act is about right, said copyright law expert Iain Connor of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com. How this will operate in practice remains to be seen.

"Some may argue that BTs and Talk Talks public stance on the issue left the legislators no room to negotiate and so arguably a more conciliatory approach during the Bills passage through Parliament might have been better or at least so it seems with the benefit of hindsight, Connor said.

Both ISPs said they would consider what action, if any, to take next in light of the ruling.

We have been seeking clarification from the courts that the DEA is consistent with European law, and legally robust in the UK, so that everyone can be confident in how it is implemented," BT said in a statement. Now that the Court has made its decision, we will look at the judgment carefully to understand its implications and consider our next steps."

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