Baidu, the world’s leading Chinese search engine, officially launched their consumer to consumer e-commerce platform “Youa”. Baidu has their own branded online payment system called BaiFuBao, to make purchases on Youa. Youa was previously available to 10,000 pre-approved sellers and … Read More
comScore just released its August 2008 rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in Japan, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. During a month of August, travel sites had much growth … Read More
Is Google finally becoming serious in approaching the Korean market? Joop Dorresteijn reports that blogging platform TNC has been acquired by Google today; making them the first acquired company by Google in Korea. (who’s counting anyway) TNC offers a blogging … Read More
According to The White African Blog, a new Ad network has been launched called Pamoja Media. Started by Joshua Wanyama (of AfricanPath) and Benin Mwangi (of Cheetah Index), it’s an ad network created to serve advertisers trying looking for a … Read More
Comscore has released figures showing that Google received a billion searches in June, placing it number one with an 81% share. The largest local search engine was Rediff.com, with a 1.5% share. India is a massive potential and growing market … Read More
FIRST International Congress concerned with the Online travel business in Sharm El Sheikh Egypt 15-19/12/08
Appfrica, web portal offering news related to African innovation, education and entrepreneurship in technology, published information and statistics on the current state of Internet penetration in Africa.
There are always room for improvements, but my overall impression of SMX São Paulo 2008 was positive. In order to avoid duplicated content 🙂 I’m linking to Sara Holoubek’s post at DM News.
The Complexity and Social Networks Blog presents an interesting paper on mobile phone users and data stored in service provider databases around the world, discussing the different types of data captured and how it can be used to provide insight … Read More
Intel signed a deal with the Portuguese government in which they will provide experience and know how in the education market in order to put 500,000 small PCs in the hands of children with ages raging from 6 to 10 … Read More
According to the The European Information Technology Observatory (EITO): Revenues from Internet access growing by more than 10 percent Telephone flat rates and online video sales are stimulating business Germany is the largest single market in the EU with a … Read More
On July 4th, Overture Japan launched its updated website with both Overture and Yahoo logos. URL is also changed from “overture.co.jp” to “ov.yahoo.co.jp”. Last week, they announced the changes with minimum bidding cost, which is currently 9yen (35yen for some … Read More
A recent survey by Adlab@go a research laboratory of the University of Udine and Gorizia reports on how online users perceive online publicity. The survey was conducted in the north east of Italy and shows …
A fascinating acquisition has taken place in Russia where Google, which has not traditionally performed well in the Russian search engine market, has paid one of its competitors $50 million for their share of the Begun contextual advertising system. The … Read More
Yesterday, Google announced its second quarter figures showing that international revenues represented all revenue growth for the last 9 months with the US virtually flatlining. Growth in revenue compared to last year was 39% and 3% compared with the first … Read More
