Google’s share of China’s Internet search engine market is being rapidly eroded by its Chinese rival Baidu.com Inc, according to new report released today. The report was based on figures from Xinhau, the quasi-government China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) … Read More
Digital Media Asia relays a report that cross border internet traffic actually slowed in 2005. The fastest areas of growth were Asia and Latin America. As the world’s web activity continues apace – the only conclusion is that more web … Read More
Asia Media reports that internet authorities in Korea, China and Japan are to work together to improve internet security. The three countries combined represent 30% of all internet users worldwide. AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Korea, China, Japan agree to tackle Internet … Read More
Google CEO named three companies as ad reps for them in China. According to Forbes, China Enterprise, China Source and Hotsales have become ad resellers for Google. Now that seems like a nice gig, selling food to starving people may … Read More
Seems the battleground between the major search engines has shifted to China. Following Google’s interest in Baidu – that recently went public and whose stock is performing well – Yahoo has announced a billion dollar investment in Alibaba – a … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 – … Read More
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 … Read More
The Direct Marketing News ran an interesting story that the Telecommunications Authority was getting ready to enact spam laws.
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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
