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Softpedia is a software and tech news website based in Romania. It indexes, reviews and hosts downloadable software and reports news on technology and science topics. It is ranked as among of the top download portals on the internet.
Softpedia's revenue in 2006 was 1.6 million euros, with 95% of the revenue coming from outside Romania.
In 2007, the Romanian website monitoring service Traffic.ro reported Softpedia as getting 3.5 million visits a week, mostly from outside of Romania. Softpedia chose to stop being monitored by Traffic.ro in June of that year.
Products are organised in categories which visitors can sort according to most recent updates, number of downloads, or rating. Softpedia serves the most recent Binary file and promotes software that is recently downloaded on its front page. Free software and commercial software (and their free trials) can also be listed separately. Softpedia displays virtual awards for products free of adware, spyware and commercial tie-ins. Products that include these unrelated and/or unanticipated components and offers (which are known as potentially unwanted programs) are marked as such.
Softpedia does not repack software for distribution. It provides direct downloads of software in its original provided form, links to developers's downloads, or both. It hosts some products on its own servers in case they become unavailable from their developers' sites.
In December 2008, SoftNews NET SRL launched Autoevolution, an automotive news and reference web site.
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