On July 4th, Overture Japan launched its updated website with both Overture and Yahoo logos. URL is also changed from “overture.co.jp” to “ov.yahoo.co.jp”.
Last week, they announced the changes with minimum bidding cost, which is currently 9yen (35yen for some categories). Starting in August, the minimum bidding cost will be adjusted according to the importance & […]

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A recent survey by Adlab@go a research laboratory of the University of Udine and Gorizia reports on how online users perceive online publicity. The survey was conducted in the north east of Italy and shows …

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A fascinating acquisition has taken place in Russia where Google, which has not traditionally performed well in the Russian search engine market, has paid one of its competitors $50 million for their share of the Begun contextual advertising system. The total acquisition value of Begun was $140 million - but a signficant slice of […]

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Yesterday, Google announced its second quarter figures showing that international revenues represented all revenue growth for the last 9 months with the US virtually flatlining. Growth in revenue compared to last year was 39% and 3% compared with the first quarter of the year giving a total quarter turnover of $5.3 billion. Clicks […]

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For a number of years, Germany (.de) was the world’s most popular ccTLD in terms of registrations.
But about two years ago China made its ccTLD a lot more affordable and easier to get. Since then, the country has been registering roughly 20,000 country codes a day. The country went from 2 million registrations to 10 […]

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Abondance brings us further news of the Google book publishing initiative which sees Lyon, France’s second most important city (sorry Marseilles), jumping the gun on Paris and cooperating with Google. The digitisation will involve those books which are out of copyright.
The library houses an important collection of books in the French language and some […]

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Top Level Domain Names with extension .it have reached the 1,5 million

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Ericsson and 3 Italy announced the first ever experiment with HSPA+ technology.

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India is unusual in having 23 official languages from English and Hindi to Kannada and Telugu - now the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has released ‘cross language search plugins’ which are intended to make search more readily available to the wider spectrum of Indian languages, reports India Times.
This, together with the wide […]

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Audiweb published latest statistics on Internet usage in Italy, May 2008

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SMX franchise will have its first edition in Brazil on August 7th and 8th.
Among the key speakers are Bill Hunt, Director of Global Search Strategy at Neo@Ogilvy; Erica Schimdt, Global Search Director at ISOBAR, and Sara Houlobek, Consultant, DMNews Columnist & SEMPO Board of Directors.

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Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh survey on the use of ICT and the Internet by Icelandic households and individuals. The survey was conducted earlier this year and shows how the vast majority of Icelandic households have one or more computers and access to the Internet. In 2008, 92% of the households […]

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Study by Visa Inc. providing Business to Consumer E-Commerce sales figures for leading Latin American markets and the Caribbean.

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iPhone goes on sale on July 11 in Japan, and I heard that there was a short line (not long at all compared to the line forming in front of the Apple shop in New York city) forming in front of the store in Tokyo.
As you may know, Softbank won the contract for iPhone […]

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Getty Images and Flickr announced a partnership and the creation of the Flickr Collection of photos selected by Getty Images Editorial Staff. In a move to increase reach and …

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A new printed publication called Search Engine Marketing Journal is scheduled to be launched at the forthcoming Search Engine Strategies Conference in August at the San Jose SES. The goal of the Journal is to help professionals in the industry share expertise with a new scientific approach where articles are submitted for review and approved prior ti publication.

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According to Vietnamnet, Yahoo is pushing the boat out in terms of new product launches in Vietnam - a market of around 20 million internet users with a largely young profile. Only in April this year, Yahoo appointed Vu Minh Tri as the General Director of Yahoo Vietnam.
Vietnam is a particularly interesting market for […]

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Nokia of Finland, which just happens to be the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has partnered with leading Norwegian telecoms company - Telenor - to provide access to various internet services through Nokia’s own internet service Ovi, reports Reuters. The Telenor and Ovi services will be offered to customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and […]

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The decision to allow anyone to register a .pt TLD has suffered yet another blow, as the authorization from the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology was postponed to an unknown future date.
6 months ago the request to liberalize the .pt TLD was proposed by the Foundation for National Scientific Computing (FCCN) in order […]

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The largest company in the WebCertain ‘internet companies extract’ of the FT Global 500 is Hong Kong’s China Mobile with a staggering market value of $298 billion, beating Google into a cocked hat in 12th place at a ‘tiny’ $104 billion and after such companies as Microsoft, AT&T, IBM, Vodafone, Cisco, Intel and Apple. […]

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