European travel market to hit 25% of transactions online
A report by PhoCusWright Inc says that the European market on average will hit 25% of transactions carried out online during 2007 – this figure was achieved in the US in 2004. There are, however some key differences in European markets:- UK and German buying patterns are most similar to the US France is behind […]
Google to Acquire Spanish owned and started Panoramio
The fact that I’ve been silent for some time, doesn’t mean that the Spanish internet isn’t churning up stories. In fact, there are quiet a few. I’ll start with the latest and for many one of the most impressive. If anything, it’s a good sign for Spain and will have plenty of local internet entrepreneurs […]
Ya.com reveals their own video and photo sharing services—YaTV and YaShoot
Spain’s leading online portal and telecom, Ya.com has launched YaTV and YaShoot in order to compete with YouTube on a local level, here in Spain. Both of the Web 2.0 services use Ya.com’s proprietary tagging service, Etikedo, to help organize photos and videos on YaTV and YaShoot. Etikedo consolidates photos, videos and links, where users […]
Google's Isabel Aguilera confirms the rumor: Google is working on a mobile phone
A number of Spanish online sources are reporting on a recent rumor, now confirmed by Isabel Aguilera,Google’s Managing Director in Spain and Portugal—Google is working on their own mobile phone. Google Phone? gPhone? Confirmed, right here in Spain. The news seemed to catch everyone off guard. Was that something that was really supposed to surface? […]
European telecoms operators threaten US search hegemony
Europe’s largest telecoms operators – with one American firm – are planning to launch a mobile phone search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The companies concerned include Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and US firm Cingular. Combined, they have a user base of 600 million people – with some 20% in the UK expected to have broadband speed mobile phone access by the end of 2007.
'We're all helping to create the Google monster,' Exalead CEO, SES Paris
The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he said. Whilst at present Google News brings plenty of traffic to sites under the brand […]
Blogs influence European consumers
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European online ad spend rising: Online sales growing fastest in Italy and Spain
Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011. The executive summary presented by eMarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online. Predictions by Internet Retailer see online advertising expenditure rise to an 8.3% of all European advertising spending. Forrester Research reports […]
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 […]
Spanish web: Speak up! Spanish content is lagging, or so we´re told
Spanish is the third top spoken language in the World, yet a recent Accenture study found that the fact is no indication of it´s performance online. Lets look at the numbers Internet growth in Latin America and Spain just last year was 337% and 375% respectively, yet Internet penetration is still below the European average […]