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Google Brazil finally had a victory
Google Brazil got a court order overuling the previous decision which jeopardized its operations in Brazil. It’s still a provisory decision, but it’s good news for Mountain View at last. Google recently implemented several upgrades in Orkut, in order to … Read More
Wikipedia sorts out the China blocking moves
I earlier posted that China blocked and unblocked Wikipedia and that it was now available in most of China. That information was wrong and none other than the founder of Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales, set me straight. I won’t try to … Read More
China web porn king gets life sentence
Chen Hui, founder of China’s leading pornographic website, “Pornographic Summer” was sentenced to life and fined 100,000 yuan (about $12,500). Mr. Chen is only 28 years old. Eight other people involved with the site were sentenced to between 13 months … Read More
Wikipedia blocked then unblocked again in China
Wikipedia, a Web-based free content encyclopedia, has recently been blocked again in China according to the Information World Review. Despite the fact that Wikipedia is now accessible throughout most of China, there are reports that is still completely blocked in … Read More
Google News in Sweden
Google News has launched a Beta version in Sweden. http://news.google.se/ The newspapers are abit scared and headlines are out about the incident in Belgium when Google got sued for linking to newspapers in the region. The Newspapers in Belgium won … Read More
China’s leading search engine Baidu reaches 52 week high
Baidu.com (BIDU), the leading Chinese language search engine, hit a new 52-week high of $108.28. Baidu’s was established in 2000 by co- founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu and the initial public offering was August 5, 2005 opening at $66 … Read More
Forrester Research Profiles European Bloggers
Forrester Research provides insight on Bloggers in Europe. Research shows there are four million active bloggers mostly young, and early adopters of new technologies, as well as heavy Internet users. European bloggers trust each other and are more open-minded than … Read More
New trend in Japanese SNS market
As I’ve reported in past, SNS services are really hot in Japan. While mixi went public with more than 7mil members, and Softbank to offer Japanese version of MySpace, there’s a new trend in SNS market in Japan. At nanoty.jp, … Read More
More than 500K "xxx.JP" domain registered
“.jp” domain debuted in February 2001. With more than 500,000 domain registered, now there are more “xxx.jp” registered than other form of JP domains such as “xxx.co.jp” and “xxx.ne.jp”. The total number of registered JP domain is 866.495 (as of … Read More
Mobility is the name of the game for European Industry
Forrester Research has released a study on Telecom and networking expenditure. The results show that European firms are now spending 32% of their total expenditure. Mobility is reported to be a strategic element providing increased productivity, cost savings, and higher … Read More
Baidu signs deal with eBay EachNet in China
Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese-language search engine and eBay EachNet, the Chinese arm of the online auction company Ebay, announced a multi-year agreement to cooperate in advertising, on-line payment and a co-branded toolbar. According to the agreement, Baidu … Read More
PC and Internet Usage in Italy – 2006
The Italian National Institue of Statistics, Istat, has issued an update on PC and Internet Usage of Italian Population for the current year: 41,4% uses a PC (was 40% in 2005) 34,1% of population over 6 uses Internet (was 31,8% … Read More
New search engine in Sweden – Sesam.se
Sesam.se is a new search engine in Sweden that is launched by Schibstedt. Interrestingly enough they are trying to go up against Google and MSN to become the best local search engine. Their strategy is to work more with pics … Read More
European online ad spend rising: Online sales growing fastest in Italy and Spain
Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011. The executive summary presented by eMarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online. Predictions by Internet Retailer see … Read More
