European concern over the power and influence of the American search engines is well known. Now Jacques Chirac has announced that one of the new joint projects which the German and French governments will co-operate on, is the creation of a new European search engine. They’re trying to take a
The Gulf Daily News reports that internet growth in the arab world will slash service costs. The leading country for internet access is the United Arab Emirates, followed by Saudi Arabia and Egypt. A reduction is the cost of broadband is expected which will push internet access higher.
The proportion of French advertising budgets is going out at an enormous rate. Now taking 6.4% of the total budget – but more significantly the rate of increase has grown from +78.1% in 2004 to +91.7% in the first quarter of 2005. %GC_SERVICE=484% This means online spend is doubling year
Whilst Denmark retains the top spot as the leading e-ready nation even beating the US, Slovakia has moved up 5 places in the rankings from a lowly 39th last year to 34th in 2005 in the latest e-readiness rankings from the Economist. The Economist Intelligence Unit regularly publishes its e-readiness
Play video with RTSP, or enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video eBay has launched its first foray into Eastern Europe targeting Poland, a country with an online population of 10 million internet users representing just 27% of the total population. It faces stiff
Quote Media has decided to sell both Vinden.nl and Zoeken.nl back to their original founder Jan-Willem Tusveld following a decision that the sector was not their core business, reports Emerce. Jan-Willem Tusveld founded Vinden.nl in 1998 selling it later to the investment group Reggeborgh – who then sold it to
The ACSEL panel, which brings together the leading e-commerce companies of France with figures then aggregated by Price Waterhouse Coopers, is forecasting a total e-commerce turnover for panel members this year of 10 billion Euros. Their latest report shows that the 24 members of ACSEL saw an increase of 54.8%
A study carried out by Le Journal du Net has concluded that Google is still ahead of Yahoo and MSN in terms of the relevancy of results presented – but the gap has narrowed between Google and nearest rival, Yahoo, especially in certain specific categories. But MSN still has some
Overture and Lycos are to work closer together in Europe, it has been disclosed. Following an agreement which is to run for several years into the future, Lycos will link its portal more closely with Overture in Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands using the content match
Shocking figures from Nielsen//Netratings suggest that online home users in France and Sweden are the biggest gamblers in Europe with both countries seeing reaches of 22.1%. Germany, the UK and Switzerland had a similar reach of 14 – 14.5% – whilst the Italians and Spanish haven’t really caught onto the