Yandex steps up its game with NAVTEQ maps deal
Russia’s most visited website and leading search engine, Yandex, announced yesterday in a press release that it has purchased a license for digital maps supplied by world-leading location content provider, NAVTEQ. In using NAVTEQ’s comprehensive map data, Yandex follows in the footsteps of Bing and Yahoo who also rely on data from the Nokia subsidiary. […]
Baidu launches Android-based mobile OS – Baidu Yi
On Friday 2 September Baidu launched its new Android-based mobile OS called “Baidu Yi” (Yi meaning Simple) at the Baidu World event in Beijing. Because it is based on Google’s Android OS it has kept most of the same core features such as integrated voice search and a single sign-in to provide access to a […]
Korean Mobile Messenger App To Take On Twitter and Facebook
Kakao Talk, a Korean Mobile Messaging App, is to launch an aggressive international campaign to grow its subscriber base and compete with global giants Facebook and Twitter. The free messaging service, which currently has 9 million subscribers in South Korea, and a further 1 million around the world, is compatible with Apple and Android Operating […]
Online trends in Europe: A digital review of 2010
ComScore has released The ComScore 2010 Europe Digital Year in Review which covers 18 European countries and gives an insight into digital trends in individual markets and the region as a whole. The complete report is available for downloaded but I have summarised some of the key findings here: Users in the Netherlands and the […]