According to estimates from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Beijing research firm BDA and the online market anlayst Nielsen/NetRatings, China has overtaken the US in the number of internet users at around 220 million. These numbers were estimated based on the online growth of 53.3% in 2007. The number on online users is […]

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Microsoft’s video sharing site, Soapbox, officially opened in Japan on March 12th. It’s a mirror image of English site, even to the sub-categories, which means that not many Japanese videos are available, yet.
In Japan, YouTube is very popular and they opened Japanese site in 2007. Also, NicoNico Douga is very popular with its unique […]

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ComScore have released new statistics showing that the Chinese search giant, Baidu is now the third largest worldwide search property. In December 2007 there were 66.2billion search queries made worldwide, 3.4billion of them were done at Baidu giving it 5.2% of the audience share.
Of course Google dominated the study, with 62% audience share, followed […]

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New figures published by CyberSecurity.ru have shown the number of internet users in Ukraine rose by 1% between January and February of this year. There are now 7767005 (7.8m) unique users per month online in the country. That represents massive growth of 74% on the same period last year (4475888/ 4.4m users)
The Kiev region leads […]

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The third annual “Internet and Business” conference has been announced in Russia this week. CIB-2008 is the largest internet conference in Russia and last year attracted over 2000 visitors. All the leading lights of Runet will be in appearance, including Yandex, Begun, Mail.ru, Rambler and Google.
The conference itself is free of charge and will […]

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Omniture Inc., a leading provider of online business software, announced they will provide Baidu.com, the leading Chinese Internet search engine, technology to measure online marketing campaigns. According to the companies, combining their technologies will allow marketers the ability to analyze how Chinese Internet users are influenced by online marketing.
International companies use Omniture to optimize […]

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A study by ‘Research International’ for eBay identifes the strong growth of E-commerce in Italy, a significan increase in both full and part time retailers making a living online. The study shows a …

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E-commerce sales on the rise in Italy, showing a significant double digit increase over 2006 - the study produced by Casaleggio Associati and Expedia shows …

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Statistics on use of Internet in Italian households and other information technology related services continue to grow in Italy as reported by Iase in a recnt study …

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The Moscow Times reports that the leading Russian search engine, Yandex, plans for float shares in an IPO on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange this fall. They have accredited this to a “banking source with knowledge of the matter”. Yandex is currently the most popular search engine in Russia with approximately 55% market coverage. In […]

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I read a Hitwise article explaining how rising Polish population in the UK is reflected in the number of Polish websites visited from the UK. It seems that the Google’s third most visited website within the UK is Google.pl and UK internet traffic to Polish websites has been significantly increasing recently in line with an […]

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Hospitality eBusiness Strategies specializes in direct-to-consumer online distribution and eMarketing strategies, published the The 2nd Benchmark Survey on Hotel Internet Marketing Budget Planning and Best Practices.
The survey results clearly show the website is a major revenue driver requiring online marketing budgets to support the activity.
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Google is about to hold a Google University event in Bulgaria on the 13th of March. The six hour event will take place in the Hilton Hotel in Sofia with a main topic - “How to succesfully advertise in Google”.
So far so good - mighty Google turns its eye on Bulgaria and tries to promote […]

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Japan’s biggest SNS site, mixi, announced its plan to establish a subsidiary in Shanghai, China by May of this year. The detail of its services have not been disclosed.
Currently, mixi has 17mil registered users. You need an invitation from existing member to join. They have free membership and premium membership (fee) for additional services. […]

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The central Bank of Italy released statistics showing how Italians favor use of cash rather than credit cards and electronic cash. The study shows how …

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The world’s largest search engine misses out on localization, how? Spelling error, I’m I feeling lucky button was changed to “Freysta gæfunnar”, the problem is that there is no y in freysta so the search engine that has 50% of the Icelandic population searching is greeting the Icelandic nation with a spelling error! Pls. Google […]

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One of Japan’s top shopping sites, “Rakuten” announced its plan to expand the business in Europe. Their first European office is scheduled to open in Luxembourg in March. They will provide the market place model shopping mall services, and businesses and people in EU countries can sell their products and services by setting up a […]

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A competitive and balanced industry with two search giants fighting it out to deliver better and better services to advertisers and marketers is an appealing prospect. Regrettably, that’s not what a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is going to deliver. An analysis of the global impact shows that the price is too high and […]

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The Arab Advisors Group Analysis of E-commerce expenditure reported a total number of e-commerce users in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Lebanon in excess of 5.1 million in 2007 … B2C e-commerce volume exceeded …

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ImpressR&D’s recent survey shows interesting results about mobile commerce in Japan. The most interesting information is that 15% of women in 30’s said that they conducted all of the online shopping from their mobile phone.
[Top mobile shoppers]
- All generations (37%)
- Women in 30s (47%)
- Women in 20s (44%)
- Men in 10s (44%)
[Top mobile shopping categories]
- […]

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