.asia domain name to be launched
Foxnews reports that an organisation known as “DotAsia Organization Ltd” has had its application to run domain names in asian languages under the top level domain ‘.asia’ approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The domains will cover China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and other asian countries.
Google not finding good hires in India
According to the TimesOfIndia, Google is having problems finding the right employees in India. Middle management seems to be an area Google has troubles finding suitable employees in the India area.
India the biggest internet market to come – says Google?
None other than Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been reported by Silicon India as saying that India will be the internet’s biggest market in 5 – 10 years. He also believes that Hindi, not Hispanic, could become one of the world’s three Internet languages, in conjunction with English and Chinese. Now there’s a thought…..
A new search engine for Indian content in English
A new search engine www.terrawiz.com has been launched to search for the websites with contents relevant to India. The search engine has also a directory with about 15 generic subjects and also information related to the individual states of India. The search engine result pages reminds of google in look and feel. With the expansion […]
Berlin: Travelocity says travel consolidation will cut search engine revenues
Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. “We all know that travel is a major buyer for the search engines, consolidation would bring down the costs […]
Live Indian films over the Internet
According to a research report published in August 2001 by Gartner’s Dataquest, the country which can expect the highest growth rates in the Asia-Pacific region was India. From 2001 to 2005, Dataquest expected India to enjoy average subscriber growth of 44 percent a year. At that point, India would have 21.3 million subscribers making it […]
India – A paradise in offing for western marketers:
The scale of online business development in India is in no way a great achievement in a country with a 1 billion population – but combined they make India an attractive market for global marketers – with 44 million mobile phone subscribers, an active travel sector and online advertising spend exceeding 18 million dollars. 10 […]
Promising India as internet population exceeds 26 million
India’s population is exceeding 1 billion out of which Internet Users are nearly 26 million. More than 50% of the users are between age group 20-40.. With the recent reduction in cost and easier availability of Broadband (min 256 kbps) the users are likely to increase to 100 million in next 18 months. Annual Advertising […]
5% internet usage in India
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 million users. The largest slice of internet users is business related covering around 54% of […]