New York, N.Y., Jan. 12, 2011 — Experian® Hitwise®, announced today that Google accounted for 69.67 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Jan. 1, 2011. iClick Media investigates. Bing-powered search received 25.77 percent of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 15.17 percent and 10.60 percent, respectively. …
SINGAPORE—The Singapore government unveiled more measures to stabilize prices in the city-state’s housing market, which it says could rise beyond “sustainable levels.” The moves come less than five months after an earlier set of measures aimed at curbing speculative activity in Singapore’s property market and at a time when Asian economies face mounting inflationary pressures …
BEIJING (AdAge.com) — Chinese shoppers are going beyond popular online e-commerce categories like apparel, cosmetics and books. Sales on Alibaba Group’s Taobao for home furnishings and food surged last year by 120% and 95%, respectively, and diapers, mobile phones and light fixtures are fast-growing categories. At 420 million, China is the world’s biggest internet market …
LONDON (AdAge.com) — The U.K.’s consumer watchdog agency is clamping down on endorsements by bloggers and social networkers, who will now be required to state any relationship they have with a product. The move brings U.K. Twitter regulations in line with those in the U.S., where the Federal Trade Commission requires that Twitter endorsements include …
Workers should be allowed to draw down their Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings at the age of 60. That was the stand of the Workers’ Party (WP) who said that the CPF drawdown age should not also be linked to the retirement age. On Tuesday, the two MPs from the WP, Mr Low Thia Khiang …
We are so used to the word – Instant. Instant Coffee, Instant Noodles, Instant Soccer results via mobile and etc. We are also accustomed to instant gratification in search. We can set ads live in the morning, and within a few hours know how consumers are responding. This type of quick availability of data and …
A Business Blog is simply a blog, except that its content and the users are skewed towards a particular business in mind. Below are some tips on how you can manage your business blogs effectively, thereby increasing your “authority” in that industry and ultimately be rewarded with a higher page rank on Google’s Search Engine …
Have you thought about what is the difference between opting for a more “pro anchor text” strategy or one that is focused on “link relevancy”? Using the same keywords repeatedly may lead you into the Google penalty box so try to steer away from that. Instead, use a larger variety of keywords and brand building …