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  • The company will finance wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia

    AMERICAS, 2013/05/25 Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging nations to the Internet. The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt of technologies and holding discussions with regulators from South Africa to Kenya, the WSJ cited people familiar with the strategy as saying.

  • Native-Language Computers Are Bringing More Asians Online

    ASIA, 2013/05/15 What\'s the New Development? Citizens in rural Nepal, Cambodia, and nine other Asian nations have better-than-ever access to the Internet and amount its benefits, thanks to the efforts of the PAN Localization Program, as well known as PANL10n. Since 2003, this group of software engineers, linguists, and sociologists has been working to configure computers for native languages.

  • MTN Could Be Operating In Myanmar Soon

    MYANMAR, 2013/04/12 Currently amount communications in Burma is controlled by the government, and out of the 60.2-million people, only 503,900 has access to a landline, while only 5.4-million have access to a mobile phone. This makes Burma one of the least connected nations in the world.

  • Naspers Shares Gain 2% On Tencent

    CHINA, 2013/04/07  Shares in JSE-listed media giant Naspers gained additional than 2 % on a additional than one-third increase in Chinese subsidiary Tencent’s quarterly profit, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Naspers, which owns just over a third of China’s major online gaming and social networking company, surged 2.1 % to R595.34 during Wednesday trade, according to the new agency.

  • Worst Attack Of The Internet' Threatens Web

    EUROPE, 2013/03/29 There's a fight over spam — and it may be the cause of one of the major-ever cyberattacks in history. The two sides in the dispute are an anti-spam group and a Dutch hosting company that the group says is behind much of the spam on the Internet. The anti-spam group is the target of distributed denial of service attacks. The fight is causing major congestion, leading to delays in reaching sites like Netflix.

  • MNC Sky Aims To Cut Interest Costs With Bond Buyback

    INDONESIA, 2013/03/24 MNC Sky Vision, a leading pay-TV provider in Indonesia, plans to buy back $165 million worth of bonds from the market in a move to cut interest costs, the company’s chief financial officer says. In November 2010, MNC, through its subsidiary Aerospace Satellite Corporation Holding, issued $165 million in bonds, set to mature on Nov. 16, 2015.

  • TV home shopping company SHOP World

    TAIWAN AREA, 2013/03/12 Sumitomo Corp, in associate with Jupiter Shop Channel (JSC), has established a new TV home shopping company SHOP World (Thailand) Co Ltd, 2013 in Thailand with I.C.C. International Public Company Ltd and Central Department Store Limited. The program will be aired throughout the year, 24 hours a day starting from June 2013, introducing high quality products from Japan and selected products from Thailand and around the world. SHOP aims to air live-broadcasting-based entertaining programs 24 hours a day someday.

  • Mobile Internet for foreigners to be allowed in North Korea

    NORTH KOREA, 2013/02/24 North Korea is to allow mobile Internet for some foreigners. The government has decided to allow foreign residents in Pyongyang to tweet, Skype and surf the Internet from their cellphones, iPads and other mobile devices.

  • Online shopping in India in booming

    INDIA, 2013/02/11

  • China expands media reach in Africa

    CHINA, 2013/02/08 With the introduction of a radio broadcaster, news agency, TV station and newspaper to the African market, the reach of Chinese media is rapidly expanding. Some say China aims to dominate the African media sector. In the prime six months of 2012 alone, China invested $45 billion (34 billion euros) in Africa, while Sino-African trade has tripled in the last three years. Presently, the Asian giant is seeking to make a name for itself in the African media sector by investing in modern technologies and giving scholarships to African journalists to work in China.
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