FaceBook Email To Launch Soon - Facebook will, by many media accounts, launch its own email service. The addresses for the accounts are likely to be xxxx@facebook.com. Facebook has 500 million users worldwide -- well over 100 million of them living in the U.S. The companies that stand to lose the most if the service is popular are Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), AOL (AOL) and Yahoo! (YHOO), all of which have huge numbers of email subscribers. Some of the portal companies get a large portion of their page views, and therefore a large amount of advertising, from email accounts. Facebook has already hurt the portals by selling ads at CPMs (cost per mille) below previously established market prices. This has tended to bring down what portals can charge in a competitive ad industry. But Facebook's new email service has just as much chance of failing. Email users keep the addresses of their contacts. In some cases, that may be hundreds if not thousands of email addresses. To mi...
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