Here is a recent presentation I’ve done about the numbers and trends on Internet usage in China […]
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The Internet has become the channel most used banking services in the country, reveals the Diagnosis of Retail Payment System of Brazil report by the Brazilian Central Bank for the year past. The network already accounts for nearly 31% of bank transactions, exceeding the self-service terminals (ATM) […]
The number of active Internet users in Brazil in September 2011 was 46,300,000, an increase of 14% over the same month last year. With the new number, Brazil beats Germany, France and the UK in number of active users at home or at work. The Brazil ranks third in the list of countries that monitor the internet using the same methodology […]
Tax incentives for the production of tablets in Brazil were enacted into law recently, according to publication of the provisional measure that stimulates the manufacture of the devices in the country free of PIS and Cofins in the Diário Oficial da União. Devices that have “a central processing unit with input and output data through a touch screen area exceeding 140 square centimeters with no keyboard” will benefit from the new law. […]
The Internet is the medium that most influences the decision to buy a tablet for the Brazilians, according to market research firm Ipsos in nine Brazilian markets. The comments by word of mouth are second in time to help the user decide to purchase […]
Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing […]
Chinese consumers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their tastes and expect a wider range of better products, according to a report released Monday that says local companies lead foreign ones in using e-commerce to expand sales […]
Chinese companies appear to be taking much more aggressive steps than their foreign counterparts to embrace the Internet as a sales channel, according to a recent survey […[
In an article in Caixin, George Washington University Law Professor Donald Clarke looks at the contractual role of foreign IT companies operating in China […]
Drew Davidson likes to play with blocks in his sandbox, as he demonstrates in a show-and-tell to interactive media colleagues. In this case, the playground is an online game called Minecraft, a two-year-young internet sensation with millions of followers, developed single-handedly by a programmer named “Notch,” A.K.A. Markus Persson [..]