Could the Microsoft-Yahoo deal be the start of something much bigger in terms of the power balances on the web? This post on Search Engine Watch blog examines the potential for the new deal to be the start of a … Read More
Via Adage, ComScore has revealed the Google share by market showing the Google domination in many markets alongside discrepancies such as Korea where Google has a dismal share of the market. Western Europe has stronger Google shares than the US … Read More
On July 29, GREE (gree.jp), one of the biggest SNS sites in Japan, announced its financial report from June. The report shows that they had 374% increase in sales and 696% increase in profit compare to June of last year. … Read More
7 organizations such as Internet Associations in Japan are getting together to set up Japanese Internet Domain Name Conference (the final name may change). The main purpose of the conference is to set the regulations and standards for new Japanese … Read More
As part of its efforts to revamp the international operations, internal sources from MySpace Brazil already confirmed that the office will remain open only until June 30th. MySpace opened its local office 2 years ago. Still remains a mistery what … Read More
Ask.jp announced that they will end the search service on June 25. They ad services has been ended in May. The search services include web, blog, products and category search. Ask opened its beta version in August 2004, and the … Read More
Starting Jun 5 th 320 of the 390 McDonald’s restaurants in Italy are offering free WiFi to their Clients. … Read More
The French are using more and more their mobile phones to get into the internet. Studies (Ipsos MediaCT) show that in April 2008, only 28% of them were surfing the WWW, and now they are more than 31%. Not such … Read More
According to Danwei, a popular Chinese media, advertising, and urban life blog, the following sites are now blocked in China. Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, Live and Bing. It appears that Bing, the new Microsoft search engine is being blocked because it … Read More
SMX will arrive in Brazil for its second show on August 4th. Key notes were announced last week: Danny Sullivan, Erica Schmidt (Isobar) and SEMPO’s President Sara Houlobek are some of the international speakers. Unlike 2008, this year’s SMX SP … Read More
Yahoo Japan has been providing the analytic tool for Geocities Plus (paid) Members since March 2009, and just announced that the tool is now available for free to all registered (Yahoo ID holders) users. This easy to user tool has … Read More
SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) Asia Tour and Seminars aim to foster awareness, educate, and promote the search industry in Asia by connecting professionals in the regions and Western markets, and creating a better understanding of search and its … Read More
How can the French be so contradictory? 81% is the number of French people who are not trusting the social media websites, such as Facebook, Viadeo, Myspace.. They believe that their personnal datas are not safe, and feel that anyone … Read More
Internet Statistics Usage in Italy Reported by Audiweb for March, 2009 … … Read More
Employees from Baidu’s South China subsidiary went on strike protesting changes to the new salary system which became effective May 1 of this year as reported by 163.com. The employees signed a new salary agreement in late April and are … Read More
