29% of airline bookings to be made online in Asia
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 the Asia-Pacific region and more travellers are choosing the online route to their tickets – […]
Chinese online advertising market to top $1 billion by 2009
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 is the lead search engine in China – with Google holding a stake too – […]
Alibaba, “Connecting China and the World”
Former President Clinton will be back for an internet related visit to China. But that’s probably not the biggest news. What’s more interesting is the event he will be speaking at. On September 10th, Alibaba, China’s largest and by far the most successful Chinese e-commerce company is hosting China’s Internet Summit with a global signature. […]
Google China Hire Starts MSN Lawsuit
Seems a new hire at Google, formerly of Microsoft, has created a stir and has been served with a lawsuit by MSN. ZDNet reports that Kai-Fu Lee is being sued by Microsoft for “the confidentiality and non-competition agreements he signed when he began working” and was now disregarding.
Chinese search engine – Baidu – to float its shares
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 – Eric Schmidt – flew to China last week and there are rumours that Google will […]
China Joins Spam Fight
An article at internetnews.com, annouced that China is joining the internation battle against SPAM. China, the article notes, is the leading nation for zombie computers – infected computers that are used to send Spam. They have joined the 29 nation (and 17 private sector groups) task force to combat Spam.
Hong Kong to enact spam laws
The Direct Marketing News ran an interesting story that the Telecommunications Authority was getting ready to enact spam laws.
China's Sohu Commits to Emphasize Search
Sohu seems to have adopted the Avis moto, “We try harder.” And, taking the global Google out of the mix, like the Avis, Sohu is China’s number two search engine. The Chinese government has tightened restrictions on internet companies, and search engines and portals in particular. With a ban on two of the largest income […]
China Requires Blog and Site Registration
The freedom of the web is limited by the country it is connected to these days. As the article from Reporters Without Borders tells us China now requires every blogger and webmaster to register their online presence. China appears to be leading the way in Internet despotism. Though the Chinese government is suggesting 75% jumped […]
Google's desktop tool goes multilingual
The Google blog has announced that the desktop search tool is now available in a wider range of languages comprising of French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese and Korean. Google Blog: Speaking of search