Tag : Internet use

Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — “All the servers are in Beijing” (also known as “The Great Firewall of China”) — he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country’s history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways [...]

A survey released recently by consulting firm e-bit, shows that in Brazil, 53% of Internet users are women [...]

Although there are over 700 million Chinese people classified as living in rural areas, only about 125 million of them use the Internet. That’s a penetration rate of 18.5%*, far below the urban Chinese rate of 50% [...]

Internet access was present in 38% of homes last year, an increase from 27% in 2010 [...]

Brazil is currently ranked 63rd in the world ranking of 154 countries. In Sweden, 97% of households have Internet access [...]

Brazil has 27 million users of these, 42% access the web daily. Of those accessing the web, 80% access social networks on their device [...]

Brazil had 79.9 million Internet users by the end of the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a survey released by Ibope. According to the study, growth was 2% over the previous quarter, 8% over the same period in 2010 and 19% over 2009 [...]

The mobile broadband service in Brazil almost doubled between 2010 and 2011, from 20.6 million to 41.1 million hits [...]

Sales of clothing, footwear, sporting goods, medicines, health and beauty products have the highest growth prospects in the market of Brazilian e-commerce and should pull the number of requests in 2012 [...]