2 million Japanese enjoy YouTube
The Internet Usage in Japan (by Net Ratings) reports that more than 2 million Japanese had accessed to YouTube even though the site is in English. The number of Japanese users who access to YouTube has been rapidly increasing since December 2005, and reached to 2.12 million in March 2006. Average Japanese user accessed 3.2 times […]
Agregax—Search engine that scouts for Spanish blogs
Spain may not be the internet leader in a number of ways, but blogging is very big here. Commercial blogs are mushrooming, blogger conferences are all over the map, and recently, there was even a book published about Spanish blogging (“La blogosfera hispana: Pioneros de la Cultura Digital” or The Hispanic blogosphere: Pioneers of the […]
Google Maps launches in Spain with a lineup of local heavy weights
An update to Nick’s previous article about Google’s recent wave of European Google Maps: Not only is Google Maps now available in Spain, but the Spanish version has some valuable local add-ons. On April 28th, Google’s newly appointed General Director for Spain, Isabel Aguilera unveiled Google Maps for Spain (maps.google.es) and 7 new partnerships to […]
Telefonica Sells, Yell Buys: Telefonica’s 59.9% of TPI’s “Yellow Pages” sold for 1.838 million
Certainly everyone is aware that the Spanish TPI (“Paginas Amarillas”—Spanish Yellow Pages) has been up for sale. Bidding came down to two major players, the British Yell telephone directories and Apax Partners and Cinven, a venture capital. On the 28th of April, Telefonica agreed to sell its 59.9% in TPI to Yell for 1.839 million […]