A recent study from Forrester Research, Inc. indicates mobile instant messaging (IM) on the rise in Europe with 26.7 million users in 2007 and a projected 80 million users in 2013. The survey was conducted on a sample of 22.000 … Read More
New research from the EIAA highlights that 40% of all European online shoppers have changed their mind about which brand to buy following research on the web. The analysis shows how 80% of European internet users have bought a product … Read More
Techcrunch reports that social networking site Badoo has received $30m from Russian investor Finam for a 10% stake in the company. The funds are to build the service in Russia, where the social networking market has reached around 10m users … Read More
DeNA, who owns Japan’s biggest mobile SNS and gaming site “mobaga town”, announced its plan to set up a company in California. This is the first step of their plan to expand the market globally. The detail of the plan … Read More
According to Aun Consulting’s report, SEO market had 9960 mil yen sales in 2007 (25% up from 7970 mil yen in 2006). 5710 mil yen: “In-House” SEO marketing 2600 mil yen: Out-sourced SEO marketing 1650 mil yen: Tool, etc. They … Read More
Italia.it non è più dal 18 gennaio. Dopo una lunga agonia il governo Italiano ha deciso di mettere fine all’iniziativa che tante polemiche ha suscitato negli ultimi anni. Già dal governo Berlusconi la blogosfera aveva criticato aspramente l’iniziativa per le … Read More
Italia.it, ambitious project of previous Italian Government premier Silvio Berlusconi shut down for good on January 18th after 18 months of agony and …
A recent study from the University of Southern California found that a growing number of users find search results less accurate and reliable. 51% of those interviewed declared they trust Search Engine results, down from 62% in 2006. The study … Read More
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a non profit state network information center founded in 1997, recently released its year end report on development of the Internet in China. Based on that report the number of Chinese Internet users … Read More
Third Door Media, Inc. producer of the Search Marketing Expo events, the Search Engine Land news site and the Search Marketing Now webcast series, announced they will produce Search Markekting Expo (SMX) events in Xiamen and Shanghai, China this year. … Read More
AUDIWEB publishes statistics for major Italian Portals. Source: SPOT and WEB – complete set of data can be downloaded here. UPDATE:
Youku.com, a video sharing website in China, had more than 12 million daily unique visitors during a week in December 2007, according to a report by Internet media and market research firm Nielsen/NetRatings. Youku had a 20-fold increase in its … Read More
According to a recent survey by the Italian IT police section 79 % of Italian children are online surfing the web – 77% are navigating in complete solitude – without a chaperon The survey was conducted interviewing 50.000 minors throughout … Read More
Baidu has announced that their Japanese site would officially open on 23 January 2008. On a current Japanese site, it provides “web”, “video” and “image” searches, but from the promotion page, it looks that they are going to provide “travel” … Read More
