A new study by Research2Guidance shows that Swedish Android smartphone users download the most new apps every month, while Chinese Android lovers download the least - not even at the rate of one app per month. Trouble is, that stat for China is, to use my British vernacular, total bollocks. In its ‘apps per user per month’ study (the graph is below), the analysts looked only at Google’s (NASQAQ:GOOG) official app store, the Android Market. But, being tied to a Gmail address and lacking paid apps support in China, few people ...
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Nov 16 2011
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Google Smartphone User Study Shows China’s Mobile Advertising Opportunities Are Huge
Guest author Julia Q. Zhu is a leading expert on international e-commerce in China and the Asia Pacific region. She formerly held multiple management positions for Alibaba Group, China’s largest e-commerce company. Prior to Alibaba, Julia worked for iResearch in Beijing, China’s equivalent to ComScore. Follow Julia on Twitter @juliaqzhu. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) released a new report earlier this week on smartphone usage in China’s urban areas. According to this study, China has one of the world’s highest levels of smartphone penetration – of the 97 percent of Chinese urban residents who own ...
Nov 2 2011
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Google India Trying to Bring Small and Medium Businesses Online
Google India (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced a new initiative called ‘India Get Your Business Online’ which will enable India’s small and medium businesses (SMBs) to create an online presence. Speaking at the launch event, Rajan Anandan, the managing director of Google India said that the nation is currently home to eight million businesses with five employees or less. However, only 400,000 businesses have a website and just 100,000 businesses have a high quality website. Through this initiative, Google hopes to help 500,000 small/medium businesses gain a digital presence over the next three ...
Nov 1 2011
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Our Mobile Planet: New Global Smartphone Usage Insights From Google and Others
Last week Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Ipsos, and the Mobile Marketing Association announced a very slick website providing the results of their survey into smartphone usage around the world. The information was collected between March and June of this year, and is now available to browse and download at ourmobileplanet.com. The data focuses on five categories of smartphone usage: penetration, behavior, activities, commerce, and advertising. Readers can also browse according to country as well. And while only a 30 countries appear to be listed, the majority of Asian nations are accounted for. So ...
Oct 27 2011
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China’s Unofficial Android App Stores are Malware Minefields
An investigation has found that China's numerous unofficial Android app stores lack basic security checks on the apps they distribute - and that as many as 95 percent of Android users in the country are therefore at risk of malware-filled apps that they've downloaded from such sources. As PO's resident Android geek, I've closely followed this trend in China that leads away from Google's (NASQAQ:GOOG) own Android Market, to localized sources that offer faster download speeds and don't require a Google account to use. There's plenty of choice, too - from ...
Oct 20 2011
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YouTube Officially Launches in Singapore
Thanks to the folks over at ZDNet for pointing out that YouTube has just launched a localized Singapore site (with a very sharp logo, see right), which can be accessed at YouTube.com.sg. YouTube says that this will be a boost to local content creators and providers. The report cites YouTube Asia-Pacific director of product management Adam Smith, who points out that the new site should go a long way towards building Singapore’s conversation with the rest of the world through video: Through localizing YouTube in Singapore, the site will deliver more of ...
Oct 12 2011
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Google says: Gmail and Android Market Outage is Our Bad, Not a China Block
Google has finally spoken out on the four-day long inaccessibility of Android’s Market and Gmail apps in China by saying that it was Google’s outage, not a Great Firewall block. On Monday, I speculated that authorities in China were doing this, in a new chapter in the ongoing Google-China controversy - but now we know that’s not the case. Both the Android Market and the Gmail for Android apps returned to normal service last night for most people, and then early this morning a Google spokesperson in Asia told PO Tech ...
Sep 30 2011
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Google Redesigns its Indian Edition of Google News
Google yesterday announced the redesign of its UK and Indian editions of Google News, in a effort to unify the experience across its various editions. It claims that these editions offer a richer visual navigation, similar to its US Edition, in order to make the website more browsable. It also allows you to discover trending and popular news with ease, and provides more options to improve the news and sharing experience. The "Personalize" button present at the top right of your screen allows you to add any specific news topic like Astronomy, Cricket, and Parliament ...
Sep 20 2011
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SecDev Group Issues Report on US Tech Companies’ Ethical Issues in China
China's tech market has all the makings of a dream for American companies: it's huge and growing fast, it's relatively untapped, and it can be enormously profitable if approached correctly. It also has all the makings of a nightmare: changes are lighting fast, it's heavily regulated, and entering the market can require companies to compromise their ethical values and participate in censorship and even become complicit in human rights abuses. A new report from SecDev, a Canadian analytics group, attempts to make sense of this and asks the question: how should ...
Sep 20 2011
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YouTube BoxOffice Gets 11.5 Million Views in 3 Months
It looks like YouTube Box Office is working pretty well for Google India. In a blogpost in its official blog, Google India today announced that it will start showing two full-length movies on its Boxoffice YouTube channel every month. Explaining that the channel has received an overwhelming response since its launch three months back, Google said that Boxoffice has already received over 11.5 million views in India. Also it is the 20th most subscribed channel of all time with 23,069 subscribers at the time of writing. The company has previously showcased blockbuster movies like Band Baaja Baarat, 3 Idiots, Bheja Fry 2, and ...
Sep 19 2011
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China Risks No US IPOs, Terrified Foreign Investors, in VIEs Clampdown
There are fears in the international investment community that foreign investment will be squeezed out of Chinese web companies if authorities in Beijing clamp down on variable interest entity (VIEs). The structure is essentially an agreement between a foreign investor and an internet company in China, allowing the overseas company to generate payment from its holdings here. While VIEs have been ratified and used for years in China, the recent Yahoo, Alibaba, and Alipay kerfuffle put this legal device in the global spotlight, showing that it was actually of dubious legality ...
Sep 15 2011
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Google Expands Chrome Web Store to India and 23 Other Countries
After launching its YouTube partner program yesterday, Google has extended the Google Chrome Web Store to India and 23 more countries, making it more relevant and useful to users with localized apps, extensions, and themes across various categories. This seems to be a new ploy by Google to gain more Indian users who might be unaware of Chrome apps and extensions. However if you are an avid Google Chrome user, the Chrome Web Store is essentially the same as before, except for the fact that it now includes India-specific apps from developers and ...
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