McAfee developed a strong base in China by partnering with China Unicom and Baidu. McAfee offers virus protection, internet security software, personal computer updates, hacker protection and anti-virus downloads. China Unicom (China United Telecommunications Corporation) which is the second largest … Read More
Japan’s largest social networking service site “mixi” announced that its mobile service “mixi mobile” had more than 100 million page views on January 15th, 2007. As of December 2006, mixi mobile has 2.3 million unique users, and has more than … Read More
There are some changes in PPC ad market in Japan in December. Here’s some notes for those people who are running the ad campaign in Japan market. – MSN Japan’s Live Search result pages now show the ads from Microsoft … Read More
Jupiter Research and the SEMPO Europe Working Group have developed the first pan-European Research on Search Engine Marketing. Online since January 15th, the objective of the research is to acquire a global vision of Search Engine Marketing in Europe. Participants … Read More
According to marktest, during 2006, 848 thousand young people (15-24 years old) surfed the web a total of 156 million hours. That’s an average of 22 minutes online each/per day. Hi5.com is the page that gets more views, with an … Read More
According to the Internet Guide 2007, a recently released report from the Internet Society of China, Internet users in China spent RMB 276.76 billion ($35.5 billion) on Internet services in 2006. This represents an increase of nearly 50 percent over … Read More
Just four months after its redesign ByIndia.com has been recognised as the most used Indian search engine. Alexa noted a 700% increase in traffic since the redesign which incorporated many web 2.0 styles. To continue the growth and viral impact … Read More
According to a report by Adotas, Rakuten – one of the largest Japanese online malls – plans to expand into the United Staes, Europe and China. The company already owns US affiliate portal LinkShare which should help them in their … Read More
The Study Concluded that the typical British computer user spends just over 160 minutes on the internet every day, compared with 148 minutes watching TV – that’s about 41 days spent online every year. Apart from sleeping and working this … Read More
Google and China Mobile announced a joint venture in setting up an online search technology for China Mobile, a carrier with roughly 300 million subscribers. The new services are expected to be launched early this year. The partnership will include … Read More
São Paulo State Superior Court through its PR office said today that the decision is not to take YouTube off the air in Brazil, but only filter brazilian users to avoid the exhibition of “Cicarelli’s sex tape”. Of course, defense … Read More
According to a recent BBC online News article, online sales in the UK were up 50% this holiday season. The boost has meant that 10%of every purchasing GPB spent came from purchases on the Web. Next, a High Street retailer … Read More
Via the SIGIR FORUM comes this 2006 SIGIR Report that examines current issues and the future of multilingual information access (MLIA) . The report does a critical review of The Quaero Project and similar initiatives. Six sessions and multilingual participants … Read More
Yes, more problems for Google in Brazil: last year a paparazzi filmed Daniela Cicarelli, Brazilian model and former Ronaldo (Brazilian football star) wife, during a torrid love scene in Ibiza. A Brazilian Justice ruled that all websites must take the … Read More
Last year has been quite a busy one for the Portuguese stock market, mainly because of the takeover bid of Sonaecom over PT Telecom, the Portuguese main Telecom operator. In a very small market like Portugal this may have impredicable … Read More
