Leading Indian telco, Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with Google to offer mobile search in India. Google will incorporate mobile ads through its Adwords platform.
The President of Bharti Airtel Ltd explains,
“In India, mobile is fast outgrowing the growth of PCs. Mobile users outnumber PC users in India by a factor […]

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Nordic eMarketing recently conducted a series of tests of Google’s regional European performance. By conducting simple searches in Spain, Germany, and Iceland, we found that the top ten results varied in each country by as much as 40%.

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Wall Street Journal is reporting that Baidu plans to enter the Japanese market by 2007.

“We carefully studied the Japanese market,” said Mr. Li, who is also Baidu’s chairman. “It’s primarily dominated by two players we are very familiar with. We think we can do better.” … Baidu feels it will have an advantage because the […]

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According to the Sydney Morning Herald, ICANN Chief Executive Paul Twomey has complained of the organisation coming under ’signficant politicial pressure’ at a recent UN Athens conference to allow non-Latin standard characters to be used in domain names. This, he says, could “Break the whole internet”.
Australian Twomey, was speaking in Sydney and is […]

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Walla.co.il, Israel’s biggest Internet Portal and search engine till 2005 sent a notice to all its advertisers, announcing a shift from PPI (pay per Inclusion at a fixed price) to Pay Per Click. The change will be implemented starting January 1st, 2007.
Walla, a public company, was the biggest Internet Media in Israel since 1998, A […]

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Seems the Koreans do not like people making money from selling online gaming currencies to other gamers.
An IT Week article details this and says that as much as $900 million is being spent on this in Korea. That is one hell of a market! Makes one want to start playing pong again.

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An article on the ABC Australia website details Google’s view of the Australian market.
Basically they see a lot of growth potential as the media spend is below 10% of total ad spend.
Should be a major push to develop Australian advertisers soon.

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The new edition of E-Bulgaria report (published annually by Vitosha Research) contains some interesting insights about Internet penetration in Bulgaria and how Bulgarians use the technology.
Even though the research predicts over 33% Internet penetration in January 2007, things are not looking much better for people who seek to make money in the Bulgarian Internet in […]

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The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he said. Whilst at present Google News brings plenty of traffic to sites under the […]

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A recent Hotwire Ipsos MORI survey, identifies blogs as one mos the most influential information sources, second only to newspapers.
The study reveals that 34% declare they have not purchased a product after reading comments on the internet from customers or other private individuals.

Other key findings of the study:

24% of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source […]

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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 provide better control against ilegal activities and communities.

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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 sort it out here but I do recommend you go to this entry […]

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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 and 10 years for “profitering from pornographic dissemination”. Pornographic Summer membership […]

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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 certain areas of China.
Wikipedia was originally blocked in October of 2005 and […]

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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 that battle and Google had to remove the links…
The only real search competitor in the […]

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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 per share. Baidu recently announced a multi-year agreement with […]

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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 the average online consumer. The report concludes that savvy marketers will need to take this into […]

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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, you can create your own SNS site for free. From mid to the end […]

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“.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 Nov. 1, 2006)
Unlike “xxx.co.jp” domain, any one can obtain “xxx.jp” domain name from any where […]

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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 employee morale.

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