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Assessing the growing influence of Asia’s internet

By Jon Russell Fri, Sep 09, 2011 2:00PM UTC View Comments

Social Media New Zealand has an excellent guest post from Simon Grigg looking at the rise of Asia online, and how the continent’s growth is likely to see it influence the western world, which has until now been the influencer-in-chief. Overall, I agree with Simon’s take on things – Asia is gaining greater significance, no...

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Report: 512 million mobile internet users in Asia by 2015

By Jon Russell 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...

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Gaming giant Zynga enters China with Tencent partnership

By Jon Russell Tue, Jul 26, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

Online games giant Zynga is making moves into the Chinese market with a localised version of CityVille, its flagship online title which the LA Times reports has been played by more than 80 million people across the world. The game, renamed Zynga City – presumably in order to grow the Zynga name from the get-go...

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Google’s Schmidt hails the ‘real mobile revolution’ in Asia

By Jon Russell Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

Today I’m publishing “The Real Mobile Revolution”, an opinion article from Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, which looks at the potential of mobile in Asia. Though not an exclusive, the piece – provided by Google Thailand – is an interesting look at the role and opportunities that mobile is playing and providing to developing...

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Asian growth drives global internet past 2bn users

By Jon Russell Fri, Jan 28, 2011 3:00PM UTC View Comments

The UN recently announced that the number of internet users globally now numbers two billion, up almost 10% in the last year, while the organisation estimates that there are five billion mobile phone users worldwide. Both significant increases as outlined by this AFP article excerpted below: Fresh data posted online by the agency showed that...

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