Mobile Payment Market on the rise

Russia: The fastest growing online audience in Europe The overall growth rate was 8%. France ranked second for growth with 31.4 million users (21% growth rate) and Spain ranked second with 16 million users (15% growth). Rounding out the top five were Ireland …

Rich spend more time on internet The new Affluent Survey from Ipsos Mendelsohn(known as Monroe Mendelsohn Research, until Ipsos bought it earlier this year) found that as the rich get richer, they spend more time online. Not surprisingly, affluent heads …

Internet TV on the rise Last year, TNS and the Conference Board found that 16% of American households with Internet access watched television Internet TV. That figure has risen to just over 19%.What is it that makes consumers turn on …

Mobile Web on the hype Mobile web Internet usage is exhibiting healthy growth in 2008. More Americans are purchasing Web-friendly cellular phones and consuming more online content overall, particularly material outside carriers’ “walled-garden” environments. That’s according to a new report issued …

Future of Search Engines Semantic and aggregator searches are clipping at the heels of the web search engine giant Google and could change the way we use the internet. Rivals such as Microsoft are also making fresh attempts to …

How Search Engines Work? “Why can’t my site be found on Google?” They know it’s important to appear in search engine results but they just don’t know why it doesn’t happen to them. It’s true: the ‘big secret’ of search …

Online Advertising Vs. Search Online advertising, as a successful platform that facilitates the buying and selling of advertising space on websites; continues to grow rapidly as it attracts more and more web-surfers through the promotion of goods, services, and …

Search engine users trends The number of Internet users currently using search engines is rising, according to recent research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and starting to catch up with email as the most popular online …

Online Social Networking: Trends Do you know what online social networking is? Of course you do. But did you realize that over half of adults across the globe haven’t a clue what it is? New statistics from Synovate tell …

Brazilian e-commerce is rising Consumers in Brazil will spend BRL8.5 billion ($5.9 billion) online this year, according to e-bit. E-commerce in Brazil, like so many other key Internet metrics in that country, is maturing fast. Between 2001 and 2007, …

Mobile Advertising not the best for teens Teens may not be as receptive to ads-for-minutes as mobile marketers originally thought. According to recent research from comScore, teens in the US love their phones and love to talk, text or chat but they …