Google established their Middle Eastern branch in Egypt last year for Business Development purpose; now they are strengthening their regional existence by taking part of the most important IT events in the region at Cairo ICT Exhibition from February 4 – 7, 2007. … Read More
I read an announcement by Rakuten that consumers can soon view the information about the products sold at Rakuten by entering product codes on Rakuten catalogue into Rakuten’s mobile site. This sounds great, but why stop there? This is what … Read More
Daum Communications, Korea’s 2nd largest Internet company has confirmed in 26th January 2007 that it has teamed up with Google in keyword ads and has been already paid for 222,8 Million USD from Google for 3 years gurantee. According to … Read More
JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) announced that the U.S. video-posting website YouTube’s CEO and CTO will visit them in February to discuss the request made by them to remove the large volume (about 30,000) of … Read More
Social media and Web 2.0 are rather recent concepts, but well known ones in the US. But in Portugal its praticaly unknown. In fact, only recently did some companies begin to invest seriously in some online initatives, that could be … Read More
Red Herring reports that Google is using Seedfund.com to spread start up funds to new tech companies in India. The article can be found here.
MSN has partnered with Chinese-based travel agency, ctrip.com. The two will market to the young and affluent Chinese market, according to a report at Adotas.com.
People in Sweden are still reporting that they’ve had problems with Gmail and that their email from the beginning of January still hasn’t been found. Google says its fixed and hasn’t been a problem after December 2006, but it seems … Read More
Eniro has relaunched their website and claim to have a better service now. They are still using Googles search index but is integrating it better now with their other services on maps and address-information. For instance, they provide you additional … Read More
McAfee developed a strong base in China by partnering with China Unicom and Baidu. McAfee offers virus protection, internet security software, personal computer updates, hacker protection and anti-virus downloads. China Unicom (China United Telecommunications Corporation) which is the second largest … Read More
Japan’s largest social networking service site “mixi” announced that its mobile service “mixi mobile” had more than 100 million page views on January 15th, 2007. As of December 2006, mixi mobile has 2.3 million unique users, and has more than … Read More
There are some changes in PPC ad market in Japan in December. Here’s some notes for those people who are running the ad campaign in Japan market. – MSN Japan’s Live Search result pages now show the ads from Microsoft … Read More
Jupiter Research and the SEMPO Europe Working Group have developed the first pan-European Research on Search Engine Marketing. Online since January 15th, the objective of the research is to acquire a global vision of Search Engine Marketing in Europe. Participants … Read More
According to marktest, during 2006, 848 thousand young people (15-24 years old) surfed the web a total of 156 million hours. That’s an average of 22 minutes online each/per day. Hi5.com is the page that gets more views, with an … Read More
According to the Internet Guide 2007, a recently released report from the Internet Society of China, Internet users in China spent RMB 276.76 billion ($35.5 billion) on Internet services in 2006. This represents an increase of nearly 50 percent over … Read More
