1.   Among the competitors is Yahoo, one of the most visited sites on the Internet, which licenses and offers links to local content.

2.   And French negotiators want an agreement to include rules mandating a minimum threshold for local content of information transmitted over phone networks.

3.   But several companies, including Streetmail.com and Koz.com, are working to improve the situation, creating local content to be provided by smaller ISPs.

4.   Consumers are interested in the world, but they want local content as well.

5.   For good measure, Smith also intends to dominate the business of providing local Internet content in each of his markets.

6.   He said its tough for a programmer to produce narrowly targeted local content that can draw big advertising dollars.

7.   Historically, CitySearch focused more so on creating local content, although it often did so in partnership with local newspapers.

8.   In addition, French trade negotiators want an agreement to include rules on local content of information transmitted over phone networks as well as its transmission.

9.   Offering a high degree of local content in the supplied equipment helped ABB win the contract.

10.   The automakers need locally based suppliers to keep costs down and meet government quotas for local content.