Social media and Web 2.0 are rather recent concepts, but well known ones in the US. But in Portugal its praticaly unknown.
In fact, only recently did some companies begin to invest seriously in some online initatives, that could be considered web 2.0
Sapo, as the main news and entertainment portal in the Portuguese online world […]

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Red Herring reports that Google is using Seedfund.com to spread start up funds to new tech companies in India.
The article can be found here.

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MSN has partnered with Chinese-based travel agency, ctrip.com. The two will market to the young and affluent Chinese market, according to a report at Adotas.com.

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People in Sweden are still reporting that they’ve had problems with Gmail and that their email from the beginning of January still hasn’t been found. Google says its fixed and hasn’t been a problem after December 2006, but it seems like people are still reporting problems…
Google has also been accused of late responses to the […]

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Eniro has relaunched their website and claim to have a better service now. They are still using Googles search index but is integrating it better now with their other services on maps and address-information. For instance, they provide you additional search results from their own indexes when you search in their regular search box. Also, […]

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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 mobile phone operation in China is a state-owned telecommunication company. China Unicom will provide […]

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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 12,000 new user registrations every day just from mobile.

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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 Digital Advertising Solutions.
- Overture changed the ad guide lines in Jan. 2007. (Example: Restriction on 3rd […]

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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 have a chance to win a full pass for the London edition of the Search Engine […]

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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 average of 2,3 million, followed by msn.com and google.pt
September was the month with higher activity. On […]

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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 the previous year.
Spending was mainly on services like Internet connections, online shopping […]

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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 the company plans a $5 million sweepstake promotion.
“We provide the Indian community with a one-stop […]

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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 efforts.
Interestingly, Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani said one of the reasons for expansion was due to the […]

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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 is more than any other activity done by the average Briton.
For more information check out […]

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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 services on the Monternet WAP portal for news, ringtones, videos and games.
Wang Jianzhou, […]

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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 attorney still wants to take the whole website off the air.

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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 that made an effort to boost online sales this year, saw Internet sales rise […]

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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 shared research free from unrealistic expectatives, wishful thinking or SEO hearsays.
New Directions in Multilingual Information […]

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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 video off air or pay US$175k per day as a penalty. […]

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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 effects in the way we comunicate. PT Telecom owns the copper wire telephone network, the […]

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