Archives for the Month of June, 2008

What do you do on the Internet, President Hu?

Chinese President Hu Jintao answered
just two questions in his online debut on an official website
on Friday, the first being — what do you usually do on the
Internet?

Watch superheros fight evil — on your mobile phone

After taking on the big and small
screens, comic book heroes like Spiderman and Superman may soon
be appearing on an even smaller screen — your mobile phone.

Yahoo seen planning reorganisation

Yahoo is considering a
reorganization to centralize its mail, search and homepage
divisions into a global product organisation, the Wall Street
Journal reported on Thursday, quoting people familiar with the
matter.

Yahoo investor asks to weigh in on Microsoft offer

An investor with a minority stake in
Yahoo Inc on Thursday urged Microsoft Corp to take its most
recent proposal for a partial investment directly to Yahoo
shareholders and prove its merits.

Media watchdog urges Vietnam to release blogger

A media rights watchdog on Thursday urged Vietnamese authorities to free a blogger arrested before the Olympic torch relay who the group said was being targetted for his political views.

German Web investors bet on social networks - study

German venture capital firms and
private investors, so-called business angels, are betting their
money on social networks when they invest in web-based
communities, according to a study.

Google Plays Second Fiddle To CNN

A year ago the news network CNN, launched a comprehensive news site, CNN.com. It has now come to light that in just one year, they have beaten the search market leader, where news is concerned. This information was revealed during a survey, which was conducted by Google’s subsidiary DoubleClick.
According to the study, of the 500 […]

Mobile Ad Market In Japan Flying High

The Japanese mobile advertising market is growing extremely quickly. Mobile advertising in Japan is set to cross the billion dollar mark by the end of this year itself.
Japan is of course the world’s most advanced country for mobile marketing, as about 80% of its 100 million mobile users, use mobile data services, and Japan accounts […]

Google Establishes Mobile Search Market Leadership

Nielsen Mobile has just confirmed that Google leads the U.S. mobile search market with a 61 percent share of the market.
Google’s lead is followed by Yahoo!, with 18% market share. MSN lags far behind with only 5% share of the market in the first quarter of 2008.
Earlier, Hitwise and comScore had declared similar results […]

Google To Monitor Broadband Connections

The internet giant Google, has announced that their engineers are working, on a project, to make tools that will monitor broadband network connections, so that users can identify any discrimination by their internet service providers.
Google’s Senior Policy Director, Richard Whitt, says that this will help users to let their ISPs know when they are not […]