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When it comes to the world of tablets, they are dime a dozen. Apple’s iPad can be “calculated” in generations, but in the highly fragmented world of Android, you know that tons of manufacturers do their utmost best to release what they deem to be the best Android-powered tablet. I cannot blame them though, as this market does seem to be an extremely lucrative one, and Archos is one of the players here. The latest range from Archos would be a member of the Elements line, and the first member of the family would be the 97 Carbon.

To cut the long story short, the Archos 97 Carbon is said to deliver the “latest mobile technology” (we will see about that) with a new slim and light design. Hopefully it will be slightly different from the competition, otherwise it is like the same burger under different packaging. Let us check out the Archos 97 Carbon in the extended post.

The Archos 97 Carbon will be part of the Elements family as mentioned earlier, which in turn is entry-level line up of 7, 8, and 9.7-inch tablets which merges Archos design and engineering alongside unrestricted access to Google Play, not to mention a full suite of Google apps without breaking the bank.

Coming in an elegant aluminum finish, the Archos 97 Carbon tips the scales at a surprisingly lightweight 21.8 ounces, where it will measure 0.45” thick. Your eyes will be treated to a sharp and clear IPS multi-touch screen that is said to deliver amazing vivid colors and impressive wide viewing angles. A 1GHz processor runs proceedings from underneath the hood, in addition to 1GB RAM and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as the operating system version of choice. No idea on whether it will get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean in the near future, but we shall wait and see.

The Archos 97 Carbon will be available Stateside from this month onwards at $249.99 a pop – not too shabby, don’t you think so?

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Web entrepreneurs face an uphill battle from the start. With millions of websites on the internet today, the competition for viewers is incredibly stiff. Many web start-ups fold within a year of launching. Despite the odds, some young entrepreneurs over the last decade have managed to take nothing and turn it into some of the biggest websites in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, at the age of 27, is one of the youngest web billionaires in the world thanks to his social networking site, Facebook. Zuckerberg started Facebook when he was still in college, with some of his classmates. Zuckerberg first launched what would become Facebook on Harvard’s network over the course of a weekend, but the website overloaded the school’s servers. He continued to work on the site and spread it to other schools, including Yale and Cornell.

Zuckerberg got his first investor, opened Facebook’s first office and launched the public website in 2004. In 2011, his fortune was estimated at $17.5 billion.

Simon Nixon

Simon Nixon, with Duncan Cameron, established the Moneysupermarket Group in 1993 while Nixon was a student at Nottingham University. The group’s website, launched in 1999, specializes in financial services, giving consumers access to information about a wide array of financial products, including loans and credit cards.

Nixon dropped out of school but managed to build the group into a leading online financial information provider. As of 2011, his estimated worth was $570 million.

Ariana Huffington

Ariana Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, is a web news and blogging pioneer. The website was launched in May 2005 as a place for liberal commentary and an alternative news source.

The constant aggregate of news stories from around the world and the commentary flow drew millions of users and Huffington sold the Post to AOL Inc. for $315 million in 2011. Prior to the sale, Huffington’s net worth was already estimated at $115 million dollars.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

You may not be familiar with the names, but you know the product. Larry Page is one of the co-founders of search giant, Google. While at Stanford in 1995, Page met fellow student, Sergey Brin and the two would form Google Inc. just a year later in 1996.

Page and Brin’s first investor, Andy Bechtolshei, gave them $100,000 and the pair used the money to lay the groundwork for Google as it is today. In 1999, the two entrepreneurs found themselves flooded with investor offers and finally took a $25 million investment from the Kliener, Perkins, Caufield and Sequoia Capital firm.

As of 2010, Page and Brin’s net worth was estimated at $15 billion each. Google has been valued at over $175 billion in recent years, with annual profits exceeding $800 million.

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