Nokia recently conducted a study in 8 countries and interviewed 8.000 . The study showed 56% of Italians use Email for 30 minutes per day on an average, with manage 20 messages.

50% of those interviewed perfer Email to SMS
49% consider more important reply to their partner compared to their boss
29% their boss
23% work colleagues
31% […]

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Google is offering free Wi-Fi on airports accross all USA from now till the 15th January 2010. It is currently available at 47 airports.
‘ A cool gift ‘ from the Search Engine which is helping raising money for local non-profit organisations. When connecting to the Wi-Fi Network, you have the choice to donate to Engineers […]

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Twitter and LinkedIn announced their partnership today, this will help bring tweets to LinkedIn. New features will be rolled out the next couple of days where LinkedIn account holders can tweet their LinkedIn status and vice versa (Tweets will be sent to LinkedIn accounts in real-time).
Reid Hoffmn and Biz Stone - from Twitter - used […]

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The Mobile Marketing Association announced the results of its Annual Global Mobile Attitude and Usage Study conducted in 2008. The markets surveyed in the Asia Pacific segment of the study include: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. It shows the strong market opportunity for mobile marketers in APAC region.
The study’s […]

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It’s a known fact that Japanese are one of the top users of Social media in the world. Japan was the number 1 country by the number of YouTube users for years, and still now, Japanese spend most time on YouTube.
Back in April, Yahoo Japan organized GyaO! as its subsidiary, and started new Yahoo/GyaO! video […]

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ContactLab has released the results of a new study on the use of Email amongst European users. Habits, trends, and use of newsletters is examined for the following markets:

Italy
Spain
France
Germany
UK

The results are organized in different reports and in local languages (and English), along with a European Report released in all languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish, German)
You […]

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Baidu, China’s leading search engine announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with China Unicom to provide wireless search. China Unicom is the country’s second largest cell phone operator with 141 million mobile users. China Telecom, the largest cell phone operator has 450 million users.
In May, Baidu reached a deal to provide search service […]

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On October 14 Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn announced via their blog that they have achieved a historic milestone. The social network for professionals now has 50 million users worldwide and half of these users come from outside the USA.
11 million users come from European countries and India is currently the fastest growing market, with 3 […]

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German flag-carrier Lufthansa has announced that it is to offer full web access via a wifi system and a satellite connection for all passengers in all flights and classes during the coming year. This will put pressure on more competitors to do the same.

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The AT Institute has just published a report at Xitimonitor showing that on average 53% of visits to UK websites have been generated by online marketing campaigns. The UK is followed by Spain 45%, Germany 40% and then just 29% in France.
In the UK the greatest number of visits results from sponsored […]

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Twitter announced via its blog that it is adding support for French, Italian, German and Spanish to the languages supported by its interface. Until now the system has only been available in English and Japanese. In its blog post it describes these languages as “Commonly referred to using the acronym FIGS and are […]

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WebCertain, where I work, is often classified as being in the North East of England and though it’s actually in Yorkshire, the business does have clients in the North East. Today, the UK’s Telegraph is touting a story entitled “People in North East are most timid internet users’. Having worked with, and for, […]

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According to Inside Facebook the fastest growing European country for Facebook in September was Turkey. Although Turkey is not technically part of the European continent it is applying to become part of the European Union. Turkey also has the largest number of users after the UK - although growth of users has pretty […]

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Google announced at SMX East in New York this week that the canonical tag is to be expanded by the end of this year. The canonical tag is basically a tool for telling Google that pages with identical content should be filed under a single URL or web address.
Until now, this particular tool is […]

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In 2009, according to the eighth survey on the use of Information and Communications technology by Statistics Iceland 92 percent of Icelandic households had a computer with 90 percent of them all having access to the Internet. Nearly all of the households with Internet access, the equivalent of 97 percent, had a high-speed broadband connection. […]

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On a recent trip to the UK, US search marketer and prolific blogger Lee Odden visited the WebCertain offices and the team took the opportunity to get his thoughts on a range of search and Social Media topics.

Here are some of the questions WebCertain posed, along with Lee’s answers..

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South African media company Naspers announced today the acquisition of 91% of the share capital of Brazilian e-commerce group BuscaPé.com Inc. for an amount of US$342m.
Buscapé, which started as comparison shopping ten years ago, currently is Latin America’s top such network for new and used goods and one of the region’s best-known internet brands. It […]

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According to a report on “Shopping and E-commerce businesses in Japan” by Fuji-Keizai, the market including catalog shopping, TV shopping, online shopping and mobile shopping, will become $5.4 billion market in 2010, a 109% growth from 2008.
The report also predicts that online shopping will take up more than a half of the market with […]

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Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) announced its launch of SEMPO APAC Committee.
SEMPO APAC plans and organizes SEMPO activities in the Asia-Pacific region to educate the market, grow membership and awareness of the Online & Search Marketing Industry, as well as to provide support to working groups under SEMPO APAC. Currently the committee has […]

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Clickz’s Jack Marshall brings us the report that Bing has gone over the 10% share mark in the US - a truly remarkable shift. The data is from Nielsen and shows that Bing grew at a rate of over 22% in August against Google’s 2.9% growth. Yahoo meanwhile declined at a rate of […]

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