According to a report by Adotas, Rakuten - one of the largest Japanese online malls - plans to expand into the United Staes, Europe and China.

The company already owns US affiliate portal LinkShare which should help them in their efforts.

Interestingly, …

Spanish is the third top spoken language in the World, yet a recent Accenture study found that the fact is no indication of it´s performance online.

Lets look at the numbers

Internet growth in Latin America and Spain just last year …

Jim Lanzone, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ask.com will attend Search Engine Strategies Italy as a keynote speaker. This is the first Search Engine Strategies Conference in Italy, scheduled on April 26 and 27 in Milano.

Ask.com Italia …

The Pew Global Attitudes Project has released a report illustrating the rapid growth of internet use globally. Much of this growth can be put down to more women and over 50’s coming online across Western Europe.

The report also contains …

If you haven’t heard of it yet, it won’t be long. And if you’re reading now, you’re about to be impressed. FON is Martin Varsavsky’s latest creation. It’s one of those ideas that makes you think, “Why didn’t I come …

Yahoo has just announced Yahoo! Answers (Beta). “Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people.” In the beginning there was Ask Jeeves. And then Google Answers.. The difference between Google Answers is, at Google your questions …

Recently I came across a statistic that I’ve been long waiting to see, it was published thanks to a recently released Advertising Age report named “HISPANIC FACT PACK: Annual Guide to Hispanic Advertising & Marketing 2005 Edition”. See following table:

This …

The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are:

Brazilian Portuguese
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Korean
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Traditional Chinese

Sitemap submisssion is not …

Google on their web site say there is almost nothing you can do to harm a website through the building of links from external sites. I unfortunately came across the reason they say almost recently.

To a major extent they …

A fascinating article in Silicon.com tells of France trying to change its ‘image problem’ in the world of technology. Thus is revealed some interesting information about French culture - and France’s place in the world:

France has a higher percentage …

Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world - Big Clique - in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking!

Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ and …