Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh survey on the use of ICT and the Internet by Icelandic households and individuals. The survey was conducted earlier this year and shows how the vast majority of Icelandic households have … Read More
Study by Visa Inc. providing Business to Consumer E-Commerce sales figures for leading Latin American markets and the Caribbean.
iPhone goes on sale on July 11 in Japan, and I heard that there was a short line (not long at all compared to the line forming in front of the Apple shop in New York city) forming in front … Read More
Getty Images and Flickr announced a partnership and the creation of the Flickr Collection of photos selected by Getty Images Editorial Staff. In a move to increase reach and …
A new printed publication called Search Engine Marketing Journal is scheduled to be launched at the forthcoming Search Engine Strategies Conference in August at the San Jose SES. The goal of the Journal is to help professionals in the industry share expertise with a new scientific approach where articles are submitted for review and approved prior ti publication.
According to Vietnamnet, Yahoo is pushing the boat out in terms of new product launches in Vietnam – a market of around 20 million internet users with a largely young profile. Only in April this year, Yahoo appointed Vu Minh … Read More
Nokia of Finland, which just happens to be the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has partnered with leading Norwegian telecoms company – Telenor – to provide access to various internet services through Nokia’s own internet service Ovi, reports Reuters. The … Read More
The decision to allow anyone to register a .pt TLD has suffered yet another blow, as the authorization from the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology was postponed to an unknown future date. 6 months ago the request to liberalize … Read More
The largest company in the WebCertain ‘internet companies extract’ of the FT Global 500 is Hong Kong’s China Mobile with a staggering market value of $298 billion, beating Google into a cocked hat in 12th place at a ‘tiny’ $104 … Read More
The largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, was found guilty of “a breach of reasonable standard of care” by the Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People’s Court. The case involved a transportation company, Dazhong Banchang, whose company name was used in advertisements from … Read More
Both WebProNews and Bloomburg are reporting on the comments made by Vladimir Dolgov, Head of Google Russia, that online ad sales will jump fivefold in Russia to reach $1 billion in 2010. In 2010, Google believes its operations in Russia … Read More
A fascinating experiment in internet culture has been launched by Facebook who have localised their interface to the Chinese markets. As the Chinese markets are very concerned about ‘face’ – how will they cope with a ‘face’ book that means … Read More
comScore just released an interesting data about the search rankings in Asia-Pacific region. According to their data, Google and Yahoo were the regional leaders as “top search properties” followed by China’s Baidu. “Because Google and Yahoo! have a strong presence … Read More
Techcrunch reports of Ex-Yahoo SVP and General Manager of Search Vish Makhijani becoming Yandex CEO have been denied by the company in a press release today. Vish Makhijani has indeed joined Yandex but in the position of President and CEO … Read More
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev joined calls for the country to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script, reports the Moscow Times on Wednesday as part of a Kremlin drive to promote Russian as a global language. He … Read More
