Digital Media Asia relays a report that cross border internet traffic actually slowed in 2005. The fastest areas of growth were Asia and Latin America.
As the world’s web activity continues apace - the only conclusion is that more web users are heading to local sites as the web expands in their region. […]

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India’s population is exceeding 1 billion out of which Internet Users are nearly 26 million. More than 50% of the users are between age group 20-40.. With the recent reduction in cost and easier availability of Broadband (min 256 kbps) the users are likely to increase to 100 million in next 18 months.
Annual Advertising revenue […]

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You don’t hear much news about the Portuguese internet arena. But of course they’re not just busy putting out fires. Here’s a brief news insight out of Portugal. During the first quarter this year, broadband connections reached 9.2% in comparison to last year during the same quarter, when broadband penetration rate was 5.5%. That brings […]

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A new survey released this week by the ROMIR research group has attempted to profile the average Russian internet user. They have examined how often he/she is likely to go online and what types of web sites they are visiting.
The survey was conducted on a sample of 3650 people, aged from 14 years old […]

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Google on their web site say there is almost nothing you can do to harm a website through the building of links from external sites. I unfortunately came across the reason they say almost recently.
To a major extent they are right, even links from bad neighborhoods won’t harm you. The logic of course is […]

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Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July

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The launching of Hispanico Click marks the first all Latin/Hispanic advertsing network. They allow demographics to separate the various Hispanic subgroups which will improve advertisers CPA and prove profitable for all.
As their copy states “If you campaign goal is to reach the Hispanic Market, you’re arrived at the right place! ”
Being able to isolate online […]

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Miva is conducting research on it’s customer base in Germany to guage the level of interest in the roll out of its ‘pay per call’ service which is due to launch in the UK during September.

With ‘pay per call’, the advertiser only pays for each call received - rather than for each mouse click. […]

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The Bulgarian internet population now reaches 1 800 000 people who account for 24% of the country’s population. The share of internet users has increased by some 50% since last year and the trend continues, fueled by ISPs who now offer faster and cheaper internet access. 2005 marks the shift from dial-up connections (2/3 of […]

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Asia Media reports that internet authorities in Korea, China and Japan are to work together to improve internet security.
The three countries combined represent 30% of all internet users worldwide.
AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Korea, China, Japan agree to tackle Internet troubles

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During the Recent Windows Developer Conference, Microsoft announced the release of Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Operating Systems Windows XP/2003 and the upcoming Vista, planned for release during 2006.

The release will be accompanied by a slight change in the logo and will formally become Windows Internet Explorer.
A beta version of IE 7 will […]

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According to Brand Republic the big online brands could well move into the traditional media by buying a firm called Trader Classified Media.

Trader Classified Media (not ‘trade’ as reported elsewhere) owns 575 print titles and 56 web sites in 20 countries including the US, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Russia amongst others.
What […]

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The Italian Government has approved new and more stringent legislation to monitor activities of Public Internet Access Points.
The new law foresees implementations and procedures that provide authorities with visibility on users accessing the Internet from an Internet Café or similar public places. Recent legislation has also called for the archiving of mail server logs.
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Forecasts from the Interactive Advertising Bureau Nederland are that within a year, the total spend on internet advertising in the Netherlands will have overtaken radio.
Igor Beuker, Director of the IAB Netherlands, says that total online Dutch Dutch advertising spend will reach 160 million Euros. Radio in 2004 was at 250 million Euros with TV […]

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This Tuesday Chile was home to some very exciting news for web globalisation.
According to Christian Nicolai, Subsecretary of Consejo Nacional de Nombres y Números IP (The National Controlling Body for Names and IP Numbers) and the Director of NIC Chile, Patricio Poblete, starting September 21st registration for new .cl domains will include the option to […]

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Google CEO named three companies as ad reps for them in China. According to Forbes, China Enterprise, China Source and Hotsales have become ad resellers for Google.
Now that seems like a nice gig, selling food to starving people may be the only easier sale at the moment.

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XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences.
Norway and Portugal have been the fastest growers in the last with 19% and 15% respectively. Five eastern European countries score for the first time - Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Ukraine and Slovakia. Top scorers are Finland, […]

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Miva has announced a deal with Quality Channel which means its sponsored links will be shown on www.spiegel.de; www.sueddeutsche.de and www.manager-magazin.de giving the network a signifcant and strategic boost in Germany. Spiegel has a wide reputation as the leading ’serious’ German business weekly magazine.

The deal also extends MIVA to www.f1total.com the German-speaking […]

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Three weeks ago, Patricia Fernandez de Lis of El País, wrote a rather discouraging article on the state of E-commerce in Spain. Online sales “are stuck in Spain, where only 5% of the population buys on the internet.” The article stems from a recent study, eEspaña produced by the Auna Foundation, which paints a rather […]

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Seems the battleground between the major search engines has shifted to China. Following Google’s interest in Baidu - that recently went public and whose stock is performing well - Yahoo has announced a billion dollar investment in Alibaba - a Chinese ecommerce site.
The billion dollar’s gets Yahoo! a 40% stake in the company.
A recent MarketWatch […]

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