South Korea bans trading of online currencies
Seems the South Koreans do not like people making money from selling online gaming currencies to other gamers. An IT Week article details this and says that as much as $900 million is being spent on this in South Korea. That is one hell of a market! Makes one want to start playing pong again.
Google discusses Australian market
An article on the ABC Australia website details Google’s view of the Australian market. Basically they see a lot of growth potential as the media spend is below 10% of total ad spend. Should be a major push to develop Australian advertisers soon.
"Internet" still equivalent to "Entertainment" for Bulgarians
The new edition of E-Bulgaria report (published annually by Vitosha Research) contains some interesting insights about Internet penetration in Bulgaria and how Bulgarians use the technology. Even though the research predicts over 33% Internet penetration in January 2007, things are not looking much better for people who seek to make money in the Bulgarian Internet […]
'We're all helping to create the Google monster,' Exalead CEO, SES Paris
The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he said. Whilst at present Google News brings plenty of traffic to sites under the brand […]
Blogs influence European consumers
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