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Indian Users Not Active Enough: Facebook’s Dilemma In India

Though Facebook is gaining rapid entry into Indians’ lives, it daily usage is still in lowly numbers. As the IPO filling before the US Securities and Exchange Commission continues to be scrutinized,...
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Orkut Still A Contender Reveals Facebook’s IPO Filing!

Facebook feels that Orkut is still a worthy adversary for it in India. One of the largest, Facebook’s IPO filling keeps revealing many interesting tidbits. We recently wrote about how Facebook actually...
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Yahoo Ponders Over Reducing It’s 40% Stake In Alibaba

Internet giant Yahoo is considering selling a part of its stake in Alibaba, recent reports say. The recently troubled company has a 40% stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and is mulling over the prospect...
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Apple To Change iPad Name Or Face Heavy Fine In China

Apple Inc, one of the most trigger happy companies around when it comes to lawsuits, may finally be getting a taste of its own medicine. While their tablet, the iPad, may be leading the market in terms...
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Asians Prefer Online Shopping Reveals Report

Shattering previous speculations, a new Survey has revealed that Asians prefer to shop & pay bills online. Visa eCommerce Consumer Monitor 2010, the survey which revealed the reassuring findings...
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India Will Have A Larger Base Of Internet Users Compared To USA

In the beginning of this year, a study was conducted by IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association Of India) and the findings were released recently that in all over India, Internet services are availed...
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India Focused Edition From BBC To Be Launched. Why The Rising Interest In India?

Yesterday BBC.com, the international news website of The BBC, had announced the launch of three new editions – for India, Asia and Australia/New Zealand, a little later a small update revealed that...
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Italy and Saudi Arabia Move To Regulate User Generated Content? What About The Free Internet?

In February last year an Italian Court handed 3 Google Execs a suspended sentence over a Youtube video which showed some Italian teenagers bullying a child with Down’s syndrome. Even though Youtube...
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Will Chinese Overtake English To Become The Internet’s ‘First’ Language?

Will it? Well TNW Asia seems to think so. And they give it just 5 years to do so. Heres a look at how they arrived at that. China added 36 million Internet users last year – according to Internet...
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How The Young Buy Mobile Phones : Report

Neilsen has released a whitepaper tited : Mobile Youth Around the world. It goes into details of how they select their phones, who decides what phone they buy and factors they take into consideration –...
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Wikileaks’ US Cable Leaks Link China’s Politburo to Google Attacks

Remember Google V/S China? Well, earlier this year Google revealed that some attacks from China had exploited security holes in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 to access data from its Gmail servers....
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Alipay Outshines PayPal To Become The World’s Largest Payment System

If you have been thinking that PayPal is still the most popular payment system in the world, you are quite wrong. Because Alipay.com, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, has outshone it to become the world’s...
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India Improves Its Position On Network Readiness Index

India’s IT prowess needs no reiteration anymore. Today, the country is also riding high on the waves of telecom revolution. World Economic Forum (WEF) acknowledges this and has awarded India an impressive...
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Home Ministry Asks DoT To Look Into Imported SIM Cards

In yet another step by the Indian home ministry to tighten its grip on the technology and telecommunications company, they have asked Department of Telecom (DoT) to explore the feasibility of making it...
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Google & Bing ‘Stay Away’ from China

Recently, China has granted Internet map service licenses. Google and Microsoft’s Bing, two of the most popular search engines globally, have been indirectly told to ‘Stay Away’ for the license...
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India’s Tablet A Bitter Pill To Swallow?

Last Friday, Kapil Sibal proudly unveiled the $35 tablet. The media went berserk. Indian innovation was hailed. “It would change the face of education”, “breakthrough in low cost computing”. That’s...
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