The Enigma Gfk research group in Wiesbaden has released figures which show that now more than one third of all Germans buy online. During the last year the number has grown by 15% to 23 million which is more than …

Russian deputy communications and IT minister, Boris Antoniuk, says that Russia has more than 18 million internet users. This compares with 83 million mobile phone users. The minister was speaking at a roundtable on telecommunications and internet legislation hosted by …

A Dutch survey of 381 Dutch online consumers showed that they prefer to buy on the internet from Dutch organisations based on Dutch soil. However, this was not due to any national sentiment - 65% of them are happy to …

Reported by Austrian TV, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Hungary have signed an agreement to take national libraries online - in something of a re-buff for Google’s idea to do the same. The idea was born of European Commission …

European concern over the power and influence of the American search engines is well known. Now Jacques Chirac has announced that one of the new joint projects which the German and French governments will co-operate on, is the creation of …

The Gulf Daily News reports that internet growth in the arab world will slash service costs. The leading country for internet access is the United Arab Emirates, followed by Saudi Arabia and Egypt. A reduction is the cost of broadband …

The proportion of French advertising budgets is going out at an enormous rate. Now taking 6.4% of the total budget - but more significantly the rate of increase has grown from +78.1% in 2004 to +91.7% in the first quarter …

Whilst Denmark retains the top spot as the leading e-ready nation even beating the US, Slovakia has moved up 5 places in the rankings from a lowly 39th last year to 34th in 2005 in the latest e-readiness rankings from …

eBay has launched its first foray into Eastern Europe targeting Poland, a country with an online population of 10 million internet users representing just 27% of the total population.

It faces stiff competition. Local outfit Allegro, together with several smaller auction …

Quote Media has decided to sell both Vinden.nl and Zoeken.nl back to their original founder Jan-Willem Tusveld following a decision that the sector was not their core business, reports Emerce.

Jan-Willem Tusveld founded Vinden.nl in 1998 selling it later to the …

The ACSEL panel, which brings together the leading e-commerce companies of France with figures then aggregated by Price Waterhouse Coopers, is forecasting a total e-commerce turnover for panel members this year of 10 billion Euros.

Their latest report shows that the …

A study carried out by Le Journal du Net has concluded that Google is still ahead of Yahoo and MSN in terms of the relevancy of results presented - but the gap has narrowed between Google and nearest rival, Yahoo, …

Overture and Lycos are to work closer together in Europe, it has been disclosed. Following an agreement which is to run for several years into the future, Lycos will link its portal more closely with Overture in Germany, the UK, …

Shocking figures from Nielsen//Netratings suggest that online home users in France and Sweden are the biggest gamblers in Europe with both countries seeing reaches of 22.1%. Germany, the UK and Switzerland had a similar reach of 14 - 14.5% - …

Volker Gläser, search director for Yahoo Deutschland, says that local search is more significant in Germany than the UK or France sometimes reaching levels as high as 30% of all searches. He puts this down largely to the division of …

Infospace - a search engine which presents the results of others mixed depending on the type of phrase searched for - has seen a 41% increase in unique visitors in its last financial year 2004 and a growth in turnover …

Wanadoo has announced a pay per click system for contextual sponsored links on Wanadoo and Mappy which has been nicknamed ‘Wanadooclic”. The links will be bought via a bidding system. The announcement was made by Luc Tran Thang who is …

Nielsen//NetRatings global netview analysis shows signficant year-on-year increases in the number of hours per month spent online in all European countries monitored. Outside Europe, Hong Hong achieved the highest increase of 25% - whilst the US dropped.

Most impressive are the …

According to Nielsen//NetRatings, active home use of the internet increased quite dramatically in the UK in February2005 to 11% when compared with November 2004 - France and Germany saw smaller increases of 1.6% and 1.2% respectively whilst Sweden dropped by …

Ask Jeeves has broadened its multilingual offering by launching a new Spanish index - this will give the organisation - currently negotiating its own acquisition by IAC corporation - to compete more effectively with Google, Yahoo, MSN worldwide. It is …

According to German survey organisation Wahlen Online, the number of internet users at home has grown to 61% in the last quarter - a relatively small increase over the previous quarter. Around 34% of the survey respondents access the internet …

According to figures from Audiweb by Nielsen//NetRatings, Google.it has the greatest reach in Italy of work and home users reaching 57.3%, Libero.it is second at 49.5%, Virgilio.it is third with 48.3% and MSN.it fourth with 36.2%.

This makes Italy once of …

Of course, it’s the first of April and the day of the ‘Gros poissons’ or April fool in France. Not surprising then that Abondance has announced a new TV channel called Google TV. Could it really happen?