Google+ is gaining new users at a pretty insane rate, and Indian users are second only to the US in terms of being the keenest G+ early adopters. From a sampling of 1 million people on the site, 5.88 percent are based in India. US users dominate the site for the time being, accounting for just over 49 percent. MTV India was the first Indian brand site to spring into life on the site on June 30th. However, with Google+ gaining new devotees so quickly, it's worth noting that Google's buzzing SNS ...
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Javier Olivan Talks About Facebook In Indonesia [LIVE BLOG]
Hello from IDBTYE, Jakarta, Indonesia. The main course of the event has started with the first keynote by Javier Olivan, who is the head of international growth at Facebook. Today Olivan will be talking about Facebook’s international growth and platform overview in Indonesia. If you didn’t already know, Indonesia is the second largest Facebook nation with more than 35 million users in the country. #10:46: Opening sentence from Olivan: “I’m really happy and honored to be here in Indonesia.” Facebook started as a small start-up in Palo Alto and Olivan says that ...
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Google India Includes Chennai and Hyderabad Bus Routes
Friends and tourists at Chennai and Hyderabad can now rejoice as Google India announced yesterday the additional of these two cities on Google India Transit. This addition will help misguided individuals in Chennai and Hyderabad to navigate their way through public transport by using Google Maps. All users have to do is key in their current location and destination. As seen above, Google Maps will provide both the driving directions and public transportation options. By clicking the public transport icon, users will be able to see more detailed directional instructions. The same Google ...
Jul 12 2011
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Baidu Catalogs Android Apps for its Own Online App Store
Baidu has opened an online store for Android apps, accessible only from Android smartphones on the Baidu Mobile homepage. China's search giant is not hosting the apps, and is merely aggregating them from a number of China's third-party app stores. At the moment the Baidu Android catalog is promoting two of its own apps, as well as ad-supported versions of the wildly popular Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja games. After searching and selecting an app, a user can download it in just one click from Baidu's own page, with no need to ...
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Google Earth, Street View As Historical Record in Japan
A couple of months back we summed up the many ways that Google services were being used to help Japan after the March 11 earthquake. Today we learned about two more worthwhile projects in Japan, both involving Google’s mapping technologies as historical record. Hiroshima Archive This is an impressive implementation of Google Earth as a medium in which to present the survivors' accounts of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. An extension of the Nagasaki Archive (video), the Hiroshima Archive is a project that aims to document history from those who experienced it ...
Jul 11 2011
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Google To Rebrand Blogger and Picasa, But What About Orkut?
Google+ is creating buzz in Asia and across the world. From time to time, I see friends requesting a Google+ invite in my Facebook or Twitter stream. A report from Mashable explained that both Picasa and Blogger are going to be rebranded and eventually merged with Google+. So what about the fate of Orkut, a Google-owned social networking product, widely used in Brazil and India? It turns out that the company believes that Orkut and Google+ are two different products, but it did hint that integration could be possible in the future. Here’s ...
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Google+ Has Been Throttled to Death – Now Blocked in China
Well, that was quick. Just six days ago, a number of western media outlets used a ping website to check the availability of the new Google+ social network in China, and wrongly jumped to the conclusion that it was blocked. At the time, I posted a rebuttal, which garnered international coverage, to show that plus.google.com was available but working slowly in China, and likely being "throttled" in the same way as is Gmail here. But, no more. I've tested Google+ first-hand on all three of China's broadband or mobile networks: on ...
Jul 6 2011
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Tencent to Bring Malware-free Certification to Android Apps in China
Malware-ridden Android apps have been a concern for some time now - and the most dangerous place for these is on China's third-party app stores. That's why the App Store Connect (ASC) publishers - which distributes some international apps in China - has teamed up with Tencent's new Mobile Security Lab to bring peace-of-mind to Chinese app downloaders. Tencent's new security labs are ostensibly for the development of their own suite of mobile anti-virus apps, but for the first time Tencent is opening up the labs to a partner. The deal ...
Jul 6 2011
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Google Transparency Report: India Ranks as Third ‘Snoopiest’ Country
In a According to NDTV, India was featured as the third ‘snoopiest’ country in the world according to data from Google Transparency Report. The study reveals the number of government inquiries for information to Google about users and requests to remove content from its services. Snoop (verb, informal): Investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, especially information about someone's private affairs In India, the government has made 1,699 data requests to the search engine with 67 content removal requests. NDTV notes this makes the country third on the ‘snoopiest ...
Jul 5 2011
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Google India Highlights Archana’s Kitchen in Chrome Campaign
Google India has launched a commercial titled ‘Archana’s Kitchen’ as part of Google’s global ‘The Web is What You Make of It’ campaign. This part of the campaign highlights common users in India and around the world who are passionate to leverage the power of the web to do amazing things in their lives. The campaign showcases the emotional and personal connection that all we have with the changing web today. Through a series of short videos (you can catch part one and two below), Google is sharing how the web ...
Jul 4 2011
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Baidu Japan Posts Losses Totaling RMB 700 million since 2008
Baidu Search dominates its Chinese homeland, but it's struggling elsewhere - its biggest overseas venture in Japan, Baidu.jp, has filed losses of RMB 700 million (US$108.3 million) since 2008. Baidu Japan actually opened in 2007, but required a relaunch in '08 after a shaky start. Those accumulated losses seem to have been sunk into general running and admin costs. The Japanese search engine market is dominated by Yahoo, although Yahoo search is now powered by Google in Japan. This graphic, from SearchEngineWatch.com, reveals that Yahoo Japan holds 56.2% of the marketshare ...
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Google Android Outgrows Apple in Japan Smartphone Market
According to a new report from comScore Japan KK, both Google Android and Apple are showing excellent growth in the smartphone space in Japan. But Google is winning over customers at a much faster rate to start 2011. While Apple put up a very solid 17 percent growth over the past six months to reach 3.9 million mobile subscribers, Android has doubled it’s subscriber base in the last three months alone to reach 4.6 million in March. Both companies are clearly doing well, but Android’s recent trajectory has given it the ...
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