The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently found that at the end of 2006, the number of Internet users in China had reached an estimated 137 million. This puts them second only to the United States in number of people online, and represents a penetration rate of 10.5% (compared to roughly 70% in the […]

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Naseej is one of the popular ISPs in Saudi Arabia has launched mobile search engine and directory called “Daleel Raheeb” http://www.raheeb.com for Saudi market only at least in the first phase. This new service is still Beta version, which works with two mobile operators Jawal and Mobily.

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Europe’s largest telecoms operators - with one American firm - are planning to launch a mobile phone search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The companies concerned include Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and US firm Cingular. Combined, they have a user base of 600 million people - with some 20% in the UK expected to have broadband speed mobile phone access by the end of 2007.

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Google established their Middle Eastern branch in Egypt last year for Business Development purpose; now they are strengthening their regional existence by taking part of the most important IT events in the region at Cairo ICT Exhibition from February 4 – 7, 2007.

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I read an announcement by Rakuten that consumers can soon view the information about the products sold at Rakuten by entering product codes on Rakuten catalogue into Rakuten’s mobile site.
This sounds great, but why stop there?
This is what I want:
Most products sold have a bar code. Can manufactures make it so that when I […]

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Daum Communications, Korea’s 2nd largest Internet company has confirmed in 26th January 2007 that it has teamed up with Google in keyword ads and has been already paid for 222,8 Million USD from Google for 3 years gurantee. According to Daum, Daum will start using Google’s AdSense and will be paid for 7.4 Million USD […]

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JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) announced that the U.S. video-posting website YouTube’s CEO and CTO will visit them in February to discuss the request made by them to remove the large volume (about 30,000) of copyright infringements found on YouTube. It looks that Google’s managements will also attend the […]

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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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