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An Indian woman holds a child in her arm as she talks on a mobile phone in Allahabad, India, Friday, April 9, 2010. Pic: Ap.

Report: 512 million mobile internet users in Asia by 2015

By Wed, Aug 24, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments An Indian woman holds a child in her arm as she talks on a mobile phone in Allahabad, India, Friday, April 9, 2010. Pic: Ap.

Regular readers will recall how I’ve often lamented how the failure of certain web analytics firms to include mobile internet usage in their statistics renders their research and data fairly useless in Asia. To help prove my point, eMarketer has an neat data set looking at the use of mobile internet in the content. Quick...

China’s mobile ad industry tipped to double, pass $1bn

By Wed, Apr 20, 2011 8:30PM UTC View Comments A young boy plays with his father's mobile phone in Beijing Feb 12, 2002. Pic: AP.

Mobile advertising is frequently touted as the next big thing – particularly in Asia where mobile internet usage is proportionally higher than anywhere else in the world – however the Chinese market is tipped to more than double and grow past $1 billion over the next three years according to EMarketer. Further details from Bloomberg:...

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