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Nov 3 2011

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Baidu Shares Details on China’s Mobile Web Habits

byWillis WeeinMobile

This article is part of our coverage of the 2011 China Mobile Developers Conference. What do developers want from Baidu? Money, traffic, data, and APIs, said Wang Jin, Baidu's Assistant-director of Technology at CMDC. Wang showed the audience a lot of statistics very fast. So fast, in fact, I that I couldn’t write fast enough to keep up with all of it. But we did learn that Baidu has lots of data about how Chinese use the internet. For example, it was revealed that 91 percent of mobile users still use ...

Jul 24 2011

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Mobile Internet Users in India and China Want Webpages to Load in Less Than 3 Seconds

byAbhineet KumarinAsia, Web

With China and India obsessed with the mobile web, and half of Indonesian web surfers using mobile for their internet needs, the mobile web is surely going to play a very important role in spearheading today’s businesses. A recent survey by Compuware shows that 73 percent of mobile phone users in China, and 58 percent in India, expect a website to load in three seconds or less on their phones. User Expectations in China and India China and India have the highest user expectations when it comes to expecting working websites and apps ...

Nov 10 2009

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Google Acquires Mobile Ad Firm For 750 Million

byWillis WeeinUncategorized

It seems like Google has passed the recession stage and is now actively looking to acquire more companies to build its already impressive portfolio. Well, "once a month" is what CEO Eric Schmidt planned for 2 months ago, and it's coming true today. This time round, Google splashed $750 million on a privately held mobile advertising company, AdMob. It has been driving hard on its Android smartphone OS, and with the increasing usage of smart phones, the acquisition of a mobile advertising company is definitely rational. More from Google VP of Product Management, ...