Archive for April, 2008
The Battle Against Click Fraud
You must read it out if you are advertising your website through Pay Per Click (PPC) and want to know about the recent battle going against click fraud. For those of you deeply involved in Search Engine Marketing (SEM), you are aware of the costly issues dealing with Click Fraud. For newbies, Click Fraud is [...]
All Eyes On Yahoo!
All eyes on Yahoo! this week as they release their most important earnings data in the company’s history April 22nd. Google, Microsoft and Alibaba Group will be watching closely to see if they can deliver the numbers they reaffirmed with analysts. We will also be looking for signs of traction from tweaks to its advertising [...]
Google Slowing? (Update)
My April 1st posting, Google Slowing?, detailed interpretations of recent Comscore data that showed that the almighty Google may actually be losing strength. However, Google just released their Q1-08 earnings and hit the ball out of the park! Check out these numbers: – Q1-08 earnings of US$1.31 billion or $4.12 per share versus US$1 billion [...]
103rd Canton Fair – News & Commentary
The Canton Fair, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive trade shows, opened its 103rd session April 14th in Guangzhou, China. This year’s event (and almost every year) is said to be the ‘biggest and best’ with ever increasing numbers of exhibitors and expected attendees. However, SCMP.com and our good friend, Paul Woodward, have [...]
Tencent Flexing Internet Muscle
Tencent (0700.HK), China’s leading provider of Internet and mobile / telecommunications value-added services, is now the official and exclusive Internet sponsor of the 2010 World Expo. Why is this significant? – The World Expo has a 150 year history. – The next World Expo will be held in Shanghai May 1-Oct 31, 2010 and is [...]
Predicting the Future of Trade
Perhaps one of the biggest untapped resources owned by trade marketplaces is their potential to monitor and even predict trade trends. While most sites do not support online transactions, trends in inquiries through their platforms and shifts in the listed products can tell us a lot. On a macro basis the data could be mind [...]
Middle Eastern B2B Player In China
Pacific Epoch, a boutique research house focused on China technology, media, and telecom investment news, announced that Tejari.com is expanding in China. Tejari.com is a B2B online trade marketplace, much like Alibaba.com and GlobalSources.com, but with a slant towards the Middle East, where it is based. Tejari boasts 150,000 members from the Middle East and [...]
Tough Rules For U.S. Toy Industry (Update)
Further to my April 3rd post, Washington state Governor Chris Gregoire signed into law the toughest toy law in the United States. The law will dramatically cut the amount of lead, cadmium and phthalates, a commonly used plasticizing chemical, allowed in children’s toys, cosmetics, jewelry, teething items and car seats made or sold in the [...]
Tough Rules For U.S. Toy Industry
Officials in the state of Washington recently passed a bill that could set the toughest restrictions on lead content in toys/children’s products for the United States. The bill reduces lead content allowable in toys/children’s products to 90 parts per million for some products and 40 parts per million for others. This may not seem dramatic [...]
Increase Profits In China
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai has released a new study that shows companies that view China as both a source of lowercost labor/products as well as a growth market, and integrate these operationally, are much more profitable than companies focused on only one of these items. The study shows (taken from press release): [...]
