Archive for April, 2009

Good news for Google from the former Soviet Union space – in Byelorussia Google has finally launched its search engine intended for the people in the country on the Google.by website. The domain is located in the official first level domain zone for Byelorussia and is an obvious thing for many internet users from the [...]

If there is one country that invariably fascinates me in terms of how internet operates over there, it is China. At least to me it is totally amazing how internet works in that huge crowded country with people mostly immune to international invaders and choosing their own internet players like they choose Baidu over Google. [...]

Yesterday Russian President Medvedev stated that the government of the country would be watching foreign investors coming to the internet market closer – and would also be investing in the industry itself (probably to compensate for the decrease in the number of foreigners that will want to invest in such conditions). It is more than [...]

Interesting news from Georgia today: as one of the largest internet service providers (it controls 60% of the total market) has been experiencing technical difficulties since yesterday evening. These technical difficulties resulted in the fact that everything the users can do is use email (at terribly slow speed) and use some local sites. This basically [...]

Twitter sometimes looks like it has been here forever with everyone seemingly using it everywhere and for just about every purpose. And of course we have all seen various marketing and promotion techniques employed on Twitter as marketing and PR people rushed to Twitter to follow their target audiences and to deliver appropriate messages and [...]

Bloggers are famous for our ability to have our own opinions on just about everything in the world and more often than not we are very willing to share such positions on our blogs constantly bragging about certain things we are happy about and yet other things we are unhappy or concerned about. But sometimes [...]

If there is one thing that I totally don’t understand about the blogosphere, it is our usual attitude that our voices can change everything – and easily. And while we have seen examples of good and even great things happening because of someone raising a voice in some part of the world on a small [...]

Yesterday Russian anti-monopoly authorities informed us about the fact that they intend to officially include Microsoft in the register of monopolies doing business in the country. To be listed as a monopoly, a company needs to hold more than 35% market share in any market segment and while there has been no official investigation of [...]

You may have already read on the Wall Street Journal and in some other sources that Facebook’s Chief Financial Officer is leaving the rapidly-growing social network. Of course it is no wonder that everyone now wants to know how good Facebook is doing in terms of money. And while Facebook is claiming they are doing [...]