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Europe leads in mobile internet access

eMarketer reports on Internet access via mobile devices. The study was conducted in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and the US. while 29% of European Internet users regularly access the Internet from their mobile phones, only 19% of US users were accessing the web via their mobile devices. The highest mobile Web penetration was in […]

The most influential blogs in German, French and Italian

Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion reports on the Edelman and Technorati study of the most influential blogs in German, French and Italian. Further information will be available during a presentation later this week in Milano where the results will be presented to participants. The event is open to the public and scheduled on Friday 13, starting […]

Relevant Traffic has sold 36% of stock to Kinnevik

Relevant traffic is a big player in Sweden with a focus on selling clicks from the search engine listings. Kinnevik , a big investement company has bought 36% of the stocks for 28 million Swedish kronors and is hoping to expand in Europe the next two years. They are looking to expand mostly in France […]

AOL sells internet access in France – raises cash to develop online presence

Reuters reports that AOL France is selling its internet access business to Neuf Cegetel for $365 million as it overhauls it’s online business in Europe. The important point about the report is that AOL has simultaneously boosted its war chest by $365 million – not a small amount AND created a strong partnership with Neuf […]

New Emarketer report on European online commerce

Emarketer reports Ecommerce trends for the next few years, associating robust growth in online sales to the increase of DSL lines installed both at home and at work. The report identifies the UK as the most “mature” of all European markets, outspending european and even american counterparts on an annual per capita basis. The study […]

Acoona launches European version of its search engine

Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone – in fact western Europe. The search engine – which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language – rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. Following the search you have the option to […]

Europe studies the Web 2.0 phenomenon with TAGora

TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks. The project will develop along several lines: A systematic and rigorous data collection campaign that will produce reference datasets and make them available to […]

France announces that 'Quaero' is behind schedule – due to launch in 2011

Abondance tells us that the Agence pour l’innovation industrielle (Industrial Innovation Agency) gave an update this week on progress with regard to 6 of its projects including the European search engine project ‘Quaero’. The project has a budget of 250 million Euros through 5 years and the AII’s press conference gave no new information of […]