Miva is conducting research on it’s customer base in Germany to guage the level of interest in the roll out of its ‘pay per call’ service which is due to launch in the UK during September. With ‘pay per call’, … Read More
Asia Media reports that internet authorities in Korea, China and Japan are to work together to improve internet security. The three countries combined represent 30% of all internet users worldwide. AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Korea, China, Japan agree to tackle Internet … Read More
According to Brand Republic the big online brands could well move into the traditional media by buying a firm called Trader Classified Media. Trader Classified Media (not ‘trade’ as reported elsewhere) owns 575 print titles and 56 web sites in … Read More
Forecasts from the Interactive Advertising Bureau Nederland are that within a year, the total spend on internet advertising in the Netherlands will have overtaken radio. Igor Beuker, Director of the IAB Netherlands, says that total online Dutch Dutch advertising spend … Read More
XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences. Norway and Portugal have been the fastest growers in the last with 19% and 15% respectively. Five eastern European countries score for the first time … Read More
Miva has announced a deal with Quality Channel which means its sponsored links will be shown on www.spiegel.de; www.sueddeutsche.de and www.manager-magazin.de giving the network a signifcant and strategic boost in Germany. Spiegel has a wide reputation as the leading ‘serious’ … Read More
Business Day reports that online travel bookings for airline travel are rising sharply through 2005. Abacus International of Singapore says that “these figures are encouraging but are by no means the peak.” Internet penetration levels are continuing to rise in … Read More
The sale of Web.de to United Internet has hit a snag with two shareholders objecting to the deal. The German federal monopolies office had already approved the sale – as had the extraordinary meeting of the company. The board announced … Read More
Juxt Consult – an Indian research agency – has published a set of 5 reports on the Indian sub-continent – including one which shows that internet use in the sub-continent remains below 5% on average – but that’s still 22.7 … Read More
The potential in China is big – no surprise then that Google, MSN, and Yahoo are falling over each other to get a foothold in mainland China and that the runaway success of the Baidu flotation has mouths gaping. Baidu … Read More
Baidu is reportedly about to float increasing the speculation about Google’s position in China. Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine – and one which Google bought a 4% stake in during 2004. It is known that Google CEO – … Read More
Yahoo is heading towards a Polish launch – at least that’s the conclusion of the Warsaw Business Journal which reports that Yahoo has launched Polish-language email accounts with 1 GB capacity. Currently, the Yahoo domain for Poland – pl.yahoo.com redirects … Read More
Could the Spanish ‘Paginas Amarillas’ (Spanish Yellow Pages) be about to launch a new Spanish search engine? Lucía Bartolomé contacted ‘Multilingual Search’ regarding having spotted a site at www.noxtrum.com under development. Currently only indexing is taking place. Lucia says “The … Read More
Big brand Opodo has moved into its ninth European market with the launch of www.opodo.es. Opodo is already well established in the UK, Germany and France – and already entered the Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish markets in early … Read More
Seekport – the German-born search engine, which recently moved out of beta in the UK as reported in this blog, has launched a Spanish site for the Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician languages – just for Spain. The company’s strategy … Read More
