According to estimates from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Beijing research firm BDA and the online market anlayst Nielsen/NetRatings, China has overtaken the US in the number of internet users at around 220 million. These numbers were estimated … Read More
Microsoft’s video sharing site, Soapbox, officially opened in Japan on March 12th. It’s a mirror image of English site, even to the sub-categories, which means that not many Japanese videos are available, yet. In Japan, YouTube is very popular and … Read More
ComScore have released new statistics showing that the Chinese search giant, Baidu is now the third largest worldwide search property. In December 2007 there were 66.2billion search queries made worldwide, 3.4billion of them were done at Baidu giving it 5.2% … Read More
New figures published by CyberSecurity.ru have shown the number of internet users in Ukraine rose by 1% between January and February of this year. There are now 7767005 (7.8m) unique users per month online in the country. That represents massive … Read More
The third annual “Internet and Business” conference has been announced in Russia this week. CIB-2008 is the largest internet conference in Russia and last year attracted over 2000 visitors. All the leading lights of Runet will be in appearance, including … Read More
Omniture Inc., a leading provider of online business software, announced they will provide Baidu.com, the leading Chinese Internet search engine, technology to measure online marketing campaigns. According to the companies, combining their technologies will allow marketers the ability to analyze … Read More
A study by ‘Research International’ for eBay identifes the strong growth of E-commerce in Italy, a significan increase in both full and part time retailers making a living online. The study shows a …
E-commerce sales on the rise in Italy, showing a significant double digit increase over 2006 – the study produced by Casaleggio Associati and Expedia shows … … Read More
Statistics on use of Internet in Italian households and other information technology related services continue to grow in Italy as reported by Iase in a recnt study …
The Moscow Times reports that the leading Russian search engine, Yandex, plans for float shares in an IPO on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange this fall. They have accredited this to a “banking source with knowledge of the matter”. Yandex … Read More
I read a Hitwise article explaining how rising Polish population in the UK is reflected in the number of Polish websites visited from the UK. It seems that the Google’s third most visited website within the UK is Google.pl and … Read More
Hospitality eBusiness Strategies specializes in direct-to-consumer online distribution and eMarketing strategies, published the The 2nd Benchmark Survey on Hotel Internet Marketing Budget Planning and Best Practices. The survey results clearly show the website is a major revenue driver requiring online … Read More
Google is about to hold a Google University event in Bulgaria on the 13th of March. The six hour event will take place in the Hilton Hotel in Sofia with a main topic – “How to succesfully advertise in Google”. … Read More
Japan’s biggest SNS site, mixi, announced its plan to establish a subsidiary in Shanghai, China by May of this year. The detail of its services have not been disclosed. Currently, mixi has 17mil registered users. You need an invitation from … Read More
The central Bank of Italy released statistics showing how Italians favor use of cash rather than credit cards and electronic cash. The study shows how …
