XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences. Norway and Portugal have been the fastest growers in the last with 19% and 15% respectively. Five eastern European countries score for the first time … Read More
Miva has announced a deal with Quality Channel which means its sponsored links will be shown on www.spiegel.de; www.sueddeutsche.de and www.manager-magazin.de giving the network a signifcant and strategic boost in Germany. Spiegel has a wide reputation as the leading ‘serious’ … Read More
Three weeks ago, Patricia Fernandez de Lis of El País, wrote a rather discouraging article on the state of E-commerce in Spain. Online sales “are stuck in Spain, where only 5% of the population buys on the internet.” The article … Read More
Seems the battleground between the major search engines has shifted to China. Following Google’s interest in Baidu – that recently went public and whose stock is performing well – Yahoo has announced a billion dollar investment in Alibaba – a … Read More
Business Day reports that online travel bookings for airline travel are rising sharply through 2005. Abacus International of Singapore says that “these figures are encouraging but are by no means the peak.” Internet penetration levels are continuing to rise in … Read More
The sale of Web.de to United Internet has hit a snag with two shareholders objecting to the deal. The German federal monopolies office had already approved the sale – as had the extraordinary meeting of the company. The board announced … Read More
Juxt Consult – an Indian research agency – has published a set of 5 reports on the Indian sub-continent – including one which shows that internet use in the sub-continent remains below 5% on average – but that’s still 22.7 … Read More
The potential in China is big – no surprise then that Google, MSN, and Yahoo are falling over each other to get a foothold in mainland China and that the runaway success of the Baidu flotation has mouths gaping. Baidu … Read More
Yellow Pages—so familiar, so practical and SO trendy. Have you noticed? Yellow Pages have been in the spotlight now that local search is picking up speed. So much in fact that all the buzz has resulted in a very complete … Read More
Clearly the big news this week is PPC, all across the board (Ask Jeeves, Yahoo and MSN). The new products that will inevitably keep everyone busy adjusting and transforming their campaigns. But life goes on, and other news, although small … Read More
Seems AOL is joining the popular push to attract more Latin traffic. They have announced a new TV and radio campaign whose goal is to draw more Latinos to AOL. The Spanish speaking market seems to very popular right now.
Former President Clinton will be back for an internet related visit to China. But that’s probably not the biggest news. What’s more interesting is the event he will be speaking at. On September 10th, Alibaba, China’s largest and by far … Read More
Interesting news to take note of out of Chile: Looks like the penetration of internet usage in the country is somewhat stuck at 36%, only one point up from data collected in 2003. But it’s nothing to get sunken up … Read More
According to the Technorati blog, you’re all welcome to search for blogs in a total of ten languages (Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish). This new search addition is still in beta (ie. there are still … Read More
How does a 527-percent growth sound? Surreal. But true. Last year Slovakia had 8,275 broadband internet connections and now, they’re looking at 51,869. With that number, coming to a 1% penetration of the entire population, they are clearly far behind … Read More
