worldcup 2014
Brazilians spend an average of 30.2 hours/month online (work and free time), which is substantially higher than the worldwide average of 25.7 hours/month. Of these 30 or so hours, 8.2 hours are spent on Orkut, the leading social networking site in Brazil owned and operated by Google. These are impressive numbers for a country where socio-economic disparities is still a big problem.
Orkut has 80% of market share in Brazil whereas Facebook is becoming more and more popular. I have an Orkut and Facebook account and every day I receive a request from Brazilian friends to be added to my networking. In 2009 most of my Facebook’s friends were European people. In 2010 the number of Brazilian’s friends in my Facebook increased drastically. According to comScore.com Orkut is the dominant social networking site in Brazil. So far Orkut has a commanding position in the Brazilian market. But do you think that Facebook can beat Orkut soon?
worldcup 2018
The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, an international association football tournament that is scheduled to take place in 2018 in Russia. This will be the first time Russia has hosted the tournament, as well as being the first World Cup in Eastern Europe. It may also become the first World Cup held in more than one continent, namely Europe and Asia, according to the bid.
Host selection
The bidding procedure to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups began in January 2009, and national associations had until 2 February 2009 to register their interest. Initially, nine countries placed bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but Mexico later withdrew from proceedings and Indonesia's bid was rejected by FIFA in February 2010 after the Indonesian government failed to submit a letter to support the bid. During the bidding process, the three remaining non-UEFA nations (Australia, Japan and the United States) gradually withdrew from the 2018 bids, and the UEFA nations were thus ruled out of the 2022 bid. As such, there were eventually four bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup: England, Russia, Netherlands/Belgium and Spain/Portugal.
The twenty-two member FIFA Executive Committee convened in Zürich on 2 December 2010 to vote to select the hosts of both tournaments. Russia won the right to be the 2018 host in the second round of voting, while the Spain/Portugal bid came second and that from Belgium/Netherlands third. England's bid to host its second tournament fell in the first round.