Online promotion expenditure on the rise in Italy with a 43% increase over the 12 month span – Nov 2006/ 2007. Assointernet published online marketing expenditure figures provided by major agencies, showing a +11% w.r.t. the previous month of October … Read More
Microsoft have placed a bidding for the Norwegian search company Fast. The amount is 6,6 billion NOK which is about 835 000 000 Euro! Their plan is to integrate Fast technology into Sharepoint server: They want to keep the research … Read More
Google announced today that they’ve opened a new Webmaster Help Group in Hebrew I got this email from Google representative: Hey all, Today we launched our Webmaster Help Group in Hebrew. Do you want to know more about Google’s Crawling, … Read More
Nielsen Online released data on the Italian market for November 2007: 9 million active users from the workplace 23 million users who made at least 1 connection to the Internet during the entire month, increased to 24,5 million users when … Read More
2008 will see a significant increase in the number of barcamps to be held in Italy – 10 programmed so far. The once informal gatherings of passionate internet users has rapidly become a worldwide phenomenon limited to the U.S. just … Read More
The Guardian reports on the Russian government pushing for control of the internet inside Russian using Cyrillic characters not just to sit on top of the web pages – but controlling things at a domain level. The issue here is … Read More
2007 will be remembered as the year hackers became criminals according to a spokesmen of an antivirus company. Hackers have aggregated into high tech gangs creating virus kits for rent or direct purchase. Nowadays all viral software is developed to … Read More
In a global marketplace, companies struggle when it comes to providing the best content to local search engines, many times insisting in having a main .com website, that often does not appear in local product searches. There is no one … Read More
The Schengen agreement has been extended from 15 countries to 24 giving a wider borderless Europe with no internal border controls or checks and an open market of over 400 million people. Coming into force on the 21st December, the … Read More
On the 29th of November this year active domain number 20,000 became real in Iceland. The twist to this is that the 29th of November 2007 is very close to the 20 year birthday of the Internet in Iceland. The … Read More
Yahoo! China lost their appeal to the Beijing Higher People’s Court who upheld a lower court’s ruling in April that the company had violated copyright laws. Yahoo! China has insisted all along that it only provides links to websites for … Read More
Beijing Guge Sci-Tech alleges that Google has infringed on the firm’s name. According to the court documents, the name “Guge” was officially registered in April 2006 by Beijing Guge Sci-Tech and Google didn’t register the name until November of 2007. … Read More
From Orli Yakuel’s Excellent(!) tech blog, two reviews of two Israeli search companies – SortFix and Omgili : Israel based SortFix offers a unique and fun way to search terms on the Web that currently works with Google,Yahoo! Or Dmoz … Read More
I just saw an interesting data of mobile sites access in Japan (by BeTrend). It shows that Japanese access mobile sites the most on Thursday of the week, and from 9pm to midnight of the day. It’s a well known … Read More
