7 organizations such as Internet Associations in Japan are getting together to set up Japanese Internet Domain Name Conference (the final name may change). The main purpose of the conference is to set the regulations and standards for new Japanese ccTLD related issues, and to select contractors in Japan.
In addition to currently available ccTLDs such […]

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As part of its efforts to revamp the international operations, internal sources from MySpace Brazil already confirmed that the office will remain open only until June 30th. MySpace opened its local office 2 years ago.
Still remains a mistery what will happen with the current campaigns and partnerships ( last week mySpace announced a big deal […]

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Ask.jp announced that they will end the search service on June 25. They ad services has been ended in May. The search services include web, blog, products and category search. Ask opened its beta version in August 2004, and the official version in February 2005. They have been struggling to gain the market share in […]

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Starting Jun 5 th 320 of the 390 McDonald’s restaurants in Italy are offering free WiFi to their Clients.

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The French are using more and more their mobile phones to get into the internet. Studies (Ipsos MediaCT) show that in April 2008, only 28% of them were surfing the WWW, and now they are more than 31%. Not such a big jump though, but there is more to learn in this figures: there is […]

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According to Danwei, a popular Chinese media, advertising, and urban life blog, the following sites are now blocked in China. Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, Live and Bing. It appears that Bing, the new Microsoft search engine is being blocked because it is “autoplaying Youtube videos when you put your mouse over them.” Kaiser Kuo, digital […]

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SMX will arrive in Brazil for its second show on August 4th.
Key notes were announced last week: Danny Sullivan, Erica Schmidt (Isobar) and SEMPO’s President Sara Houlobek are some of the international speakers.
Unlike 2008, this year’s SMX SP (possible hashtag on Twitter?) will take place in a single day, not two.
The full agenda should go […]

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Yahoo Japan has been providing the analytic tool for Geocities Plus (paid) Members since March 2009, and just announced that the tool is now available for free to all registered (Yahoo ID holders) users.
This easy to user tool has been improved by listening the feedback from users for the past several months, and they […]

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SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) Asia Tour and Seminars aim to foster awareness, educate, and promote the search industry in Asia by connecting professionals in the regions and Western markets, and creating a better understanding of search and its role in marketing.
The event consists of seminars, press conferences, and networking receptions at each location. […]

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How can the French be so contradictory? 81% is the number of French people who are not trusting the social media websites, such as Facebook, Viadeo, Myspace.. They believe that their personnal datas are not safe, and feel that anyone could get a look at them and use them. However 60% still think that it […]

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Internet Statistics Usage in Italy Reported by Audiweb for March, 2009 …

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Employees from Baidu’s South China subsidiary went on strike protesting changes to the new salary system which became effective May 1 of this year as reported by 163.com. The employees signed a new salary agreement in late April and are claiming they didn’t fully understand it. They began protesting in front of Guangzhou’s Tianhe District […]

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Twitter is being adopted by many, especially celebrities who use it to “set stories straight” Fashions change - what’s big today may not be tomorrow The growth rate is very big, but retention is very bad - difficult to evaluate a follower on twitter Twitter is not that simple, easy to make mistakes and with a technical touch, it is not multilingual.

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Anne Presents FaceBook numbers $ 419 M invested spending $ 20 M/month more than 50% of members are over 25 women over 55 are the fastest growing segment Linked in is big Twitter is active, FaceBook id Huge (will refer to FaceBook as FB) Has created a $ 500 M market for application developers Now FB has approx.

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Search and Social Networks make it easier for people to find things and people they are looking for - people have been searching since the beginning of time, Search Engines have filled the gap and made it much easier (and much faster) to find things.

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A set of internal working documents from the censorship department at Baidu, China’s largest search engine, were recently leaked. These documents are quickly appearing on blogs, forums and across the internet both in China and around the world. A China Digital Times post includes a comprehensive list of the websites that are being censored […]

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Following the expansion of their trademark policy to the UK last year, Google has widened its looser trademark policy which basically allows all-comers to bid on trademark keywords increasing the cost of trademark advertising via the number one search engine and allowing competitors to aggressively buy each others ‘marks. The new change expands the […]

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In response to demand from UK and European delegates, the agenda for the upcoming SMX London has been adjusted to focus even more heavily on advanced search engine optimsiation and marketing topics providing a solid training opportunity for European-based search marketers. Chris Sherman, the host for the conference, has always focused on good content […]

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Baidu (BIDU), China’s leading search engine reported first-quarter net income grew 24%. Baidu’s total revenues in the first quarter of 2009 were CNY810.7 million (USD 118.76 million), a 41.1% increase from the corresponding period in 2008. Net income for the quarter was CNY181.1 million (USD 26.5 million), a 23.5% increase from the corresponding period in […]

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Abondance reports that Miva has announced the closure of its French operation. The service will cease on the 28th April and all publishers are to be paid their due fees. Advertisers will also be reimbursed any unspent fees.

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