The average Malaysian Internet user has 233 friends on social networks, which is the most in the world, according to interviews with nearly 50,000 online users in 46 countries. By contrast, the least social web users appear to be the Japanese, who count only 29 friends. Read More »
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Twitter users in Asia accounted for 37 percent of Tweets in a recent day analyzed by the French firm Semiocast. While the U.S. is still Twitter’s single biggest country, with 25 percent of messages, Japan is now No. 2 and South Korea and Indonesia’s numbers are… Read More »
Twitter yesterday launched a mobile version of its popular micromessaging service in Japan, making it the first country to get its own local language version. To boost its presence abroad, the fledgling San Francisco-based company has been tapping into the mobile industry, unveiling a Read More »
While traveling from Mumbai to New Delhi last week, I met an executive from one of India’s big conglomerates, Mahindra & Mahindra. In case you’ve not heard of it, Mahindra is structured much like the well-known Tata Group. Mahindra has operations in auto-manufacturing… Read More »
Comcast has finally called off its bid for Disney. Brian L. Roberts, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast, said “We have always been disciplined in our approach to acquisitions. Being disciplined means knowing when it is time to walk away. That time… Read More »