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Bandwidth-Thirsty Developing World Poses Threat to Web's Bottom Line

Photo-sharing sites, social networks, and video distributors (e.g., Flickr, Facebook, YouTube) are booming in developing nations like Turkey, India, and Brazil - but struggling to turn a profit from online advertising alone. Internet entrepreneurs have always operated under the ideals of uniting everyone in a single online "village" by providing free services to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 28th 2009

Dell's Cheap 'Vestro' PCs Target Emerging Markets

Setting its eyes on a neglected niche, Dell is marketing a suite of low-cost computers to emerging markets like China and India. Dell's Vestro units -- two notebook and two desktop PC models -- were built in Shanghai and shall target small business owners. Prices start at 3,299 yuan ($475) for the notebooks and 2,999 yuan ($440) for desktop PCs. They will be sold in 20 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 28th 2008

YouTube to Invade Latin America's Mobile Units

Latin America's top wireless operator, America Movil, announced its users will soon be able to watch YouTube videos on its phones, reports Reuters. YouTube access will appear on 3G phones in Mexico before broadening to other parts of Latin America. The service hits Brazil in the first quarter of this year. YouTube has local sites in 15 countries. Every minute, YouTube users arou  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 13th 2008

875MM Consumers Shopped Online, Up 40% in 2 Years

Over 85 percent of the global online population has used the internet to make a purchase, increasing the market for online shopping by 40 percent in the past two years, according to the Nielsen Global Online Survey on internet shopping habits,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 30th 2008

Yahoo Lands Search Deal with Grande Latin American Carrier

Yahoo is partnering with Latin America's largest mobile phone company, America Movil, to provide mobile web services in 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to Reuters, Yahoo's oneSearch service will become the default on Movil's wireless carriers' portals. Yahoo plans on rolling out localized versions of oneSearch for each region. Mexico City-based A  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 21st 2007

Social Networking's Explosive Growth to Plateau in Five Years

Global active memberships in social networking sites are expected to reach 230 million at the end of 2007 (including multiple memberships by users). Revenues from social-networking services should reach $965 million, growing to $2.4 billion by 2012, according to a new report, writes MarketingCharts. But growth in social networking will plateau worldwide  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 24th 2007

comScore Debuts Worldwide Search Market Report, Asian Engines Hot

Some 61 billion online searches were conducted worldwide in August. Google was the top global search property and more than 750 million people age 15 and older -- 95 percent of the world's internet audience -- conducted 61 billion searches (an average of over 80 searches per searcher), according to comScore. comScore's qSearch 2.0 service reported on the top 50 worldwide intern  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 11th 2007

Major Social Networking Sites Expand Their Global Visitor Base

Several social networking sites, serving at least 10 million monthly visitors, underwent dramatic growth during the past year, according to a comScore study on the expansion of social networking across the globe, writes MarketingCharts. Among comScore's data on select sites' year-over-year g  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 2nd 2007

Social Computer Hits Doorsteps of Third World

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child, is on a mission to put open-source computing systems into the hands of Third World Children. The durable green XO laptop is a low-power, lightweight system able to withstand a number of extremes, including heavy rains, bright sunlight, five-foot falls and small hands. It is typically both electric- and crank-operated and costs approximately $175 per unit to manufacture,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 1st 2007

IAC Plans Black Community

IAC announced this week that it would launch an "online destination for the Black community featuring topical content, relevant services and a platform for community interaction," reports paidContent.org. The site is meant to not only attract African-Americans, but blacks from Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean as well. The site, p  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 19th 2007

Yahoo to Feature News and Iraq Blog from McClatchy

Yahoo will offer international reporting from newspaper publisher McClatchy Co., including a blog written by Iraqi staffers. Yahoo News will feature coverage of the project, dubbed "Trusted Voices," in the second quarter of this year, Reuters reports. The project will feature coverage from McClatchy foreign correspondents based in the Middle East, China, Latin America  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 29th 2007

JumpTV Offers 'Ethnic' Programming on Joost

Newly launched web TV site Joost now carries select programming from "ethnic" internet media company JumpTV, reports Reuters. The deal between the two companies will make Spanish-language programming from Colombia, Chile and Peru available on Joost, as well as an Arabic-language comedy. Series from Romania, Russia and elsewhere are   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 6th 2007

Al Gore, MSN Partner in Green Concert a la Live 8

The MSN Network has partnered with the "star" of last year's An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice-President Al Gore, to raise awareness of environmental issues through a multimedia effort named Save Our Selves, reports ClickZ. "Save Our Selves (SOS) - The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis," will culmin  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 19th 2007

Music Industry Files 8,000 New Lawsuits Worldwide

A global music industry group has filed 8,000 lawsuits against alleged illegal file-sharers around the world in an effort to discourage online piracy. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on Tuesday said it had filed suits in 17 countries, including the first such actions in Brazil, Mexico and Poland, Reuters   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 17th 2006

Yahoo Updates Web Mail, Partners with TV Guide

Yahoo has launched a new beta version of Yahoo Mail as well as a partnership with TV Guide that will allow Yahoo to put program guides online. The new version of free, ad-supported we-based Yahoo Mail is being rolled out in several countries and offers improved speed and performance, as well as a calendar-timeline view, which includes the ability to view maps of meeting places, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal   [...]
Posted: Friday, September 15th 2006

Google Concedes to Brazil's Demand for User Data

Google has agreed to turn over some user data demanded by Brazilian authorities in connection with criminal investigations. Google on Tuesday said it would comply with a Brazilian court order to turn over data that could identify users of its Orkut social networking site who are suspected of illegal activities, including racism and child pornography, reports TechNewsWorl  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 6th 2006

Brazil Judge: Google Must Disclose Orkut User Data

A judge in Brazil has ordered Google's local office to provide user data for Google's social networking site Orkut. Brazilian prosecutors have accused some Orkut users of crimes such as racism, homophobia and child pornography, and federal judge Jose Lunardelli ruled last week (late Thursday) that within 15 days Google disclose the requested information,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 5th 2006

Brazil Prosecutors Go after Google's Orkut

The Sao Paulo prosecutor's office is alleging that Orkut has been used for criminal activity and is seeking permission from a judge to file a civil suit against Google. The Brazilian prosecutors are alleging that Google is withholding user information required for a separate criminal investigation - and they want Google to pay a $61 million fine, reports Reuters. Moreover, if G  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 24th 2006

WPP's Sorrell: Online Advertising Boom Ahead

The proportion of WPP Group's internet advertising business will double within 10 years, its founder and CEO Sir Martin Sorrell tells the New York Sun. And he's particularly bullish about the industry as a whole for the next couple of years, citing the Beijing Olympics and U.S. presidential election, which he says will add two percent to overall ad spending - or some $24 billion of the $1.2 trillion worldwide. Sorrell says about $1.5 b  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 13th 2006

Terra.com, Revenue Science Team for Behavioral Targeting

Terra.com, the U.S. Hispanic portal of the Terra Networks global internet group, has selected Revenue Science to provide behavioral targeting across its network, the companies announced last week. In addition to the U.S. portal, Terra has a network of 19 country sites in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain.   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 10th 2006