According to the latest surveys made by the Iceland Tourist Board over 60% of incoming travellers use the Internet to decide on what to do when arriving. More that 50% of those use the internet to book online. This number … Read More
A new company, only Internet based, opened the first of April. The company is called SKO and is owned by the same company, Dagsbrun, that operates Vodafone in Iceland. Their services will only be Internet based, no “phone” support and … Read More
Jim Lanzone, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ask.com will attend Search Engine Strategies Italy as a keynote speaker. This is the first Search Engine Strategies Conference in Italy, scheduled on April 26 and 27 in Milano. Ask.com Italia … Read More
According to the Swiss Media Research and Studies organisation (la société Recherches et études des médias publicitaires (REMP)) reported by Edicom, the number of web users in Switzerland now exceeds 4 million representing around 60% of the population. Between April … Read More
It seems the Danish search engine scene have gone beserck releasing new search services. Recently we reported the new search engine from Danish tv station TV2. Now search engine Jubii has recently launched a search service called Jubii iQ where … Read More
The second annual conference “Audience Control and Advertising in the Internet” has just come to a close in Moscow. More then 300 people from different regions of Russia came to the capital to discuss internet advertising perspectives, 2 times more … Read More
According to Analysys International, an Internet based provider of business information, China’s search engine industry will experience a sharp slowdown in revenue growth over the next 18 months. Search engine users are dissatisfied with search results and advertisers aren’t seeing … Read More
The Pew Global Attitudes Project has released a report illustrating the rapid growth of internet use globally. Much of this growth can be put down to more women and over 50’s coming online across Western Europe. The report also contains … Read More
Ru-Centre, the Russian Registrar, has released this Monday on the number of domains in circulation. According to their figures 140 000 new URLs appeared last year in the Russian internet, which is 46.31% more than in 2004. In the beginning … Read More
With 60% of the emails in China considered spam, China’s Ministry of Information enacted their first anti-spam measures to take effect on March 30th. Unfortunately these measures are purely administrative and only apply to anyone operating an email service. China … Read More
An panel of lawyers concluded on Thursday that Russian notaries are not ready to certify Web resources for use as evidence in court cases. This has implications for company protection against copyright, branding and other intellectual property cases involving the … Read More
Media post has a good article about this. It’s interesting to note that this is so significant in the US, as it is generally the case in developing Internet markets that even more activity happens offline. Even if you don’t … Read More
MarketingSherpa, the popular research site, has released the first of a free two part series on marketing to China. Special Report Part I: Marketing to China — Overcoming the Top 5 Challenges The biggest mistake companies make is “approaching China … Read More
The Danish tv station TV2 has quietly launched a new search engine called TV2 Fredo. The search engine presumably offers contactinfo, website links(!), maps and a link to a gift certificate partner. TV2 describes the search engine as follows (my … Read More
The Moscow Times is carrying a report on the recent surge in London IPO listings for Russian companies. Seven Russian IPOs raised $5 billion on the London Stock Exchange in 2005, making Russia the biggest source of international primary offerings … Read More
