BEIJING–(BUSINESS WIRE)– After years of development, China’s mobile Internet industry has entered a period of rapid growth and overall consolidation. I. Overview of China’s Mobile Internet Industry By the end of 2010, China’s mobile Internet industry was worth RMB 293.69 billion, and the figure for 2011 is expected to top RMB 400 [...]

You might say TY4NS has a one-track mind these days. Today’s topic: How bad is online tracking, really? The harm from having your movements tracked across the Web depends in part on how anonymous this data really is. For example, the Ghostery folks put together a clever Periodic Table of the most common 100 Web trackers, using data from its GhostRank surveys. Click on any of the “elements” [...]

MIAMI, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Over the past few years, cable TV providers have embraced the Internet as a way to give their customers more ways to access their entertainment. On Tuesday, Time Warner Cable launched a beta version of their streaming video service, joining a handful of other providers that have made their shows and movies available away from television sets. DigitalLanding.com [...]

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire -02/15/12)- Chinese Internet stocks have been on the upswing of late, outperforming the S&P 500 by a sizeable margin over the last month. Over that period, TickerSpy’s Chinese Internet Stocks Index (CHDOT) is up more than 9 percent — helping Chinese shares traded in New York to a five-month high, Bloomberg reports. Five Star Equities examines investing [...]

For all the differences between mobile websites and the much-hyped world of downloadable apps, in few fields does the difference shine clearer than in online shopping. Shoppers are fickle creatures, liable to decide whether or not to make a purchase within mere seconds of dwelling on the question. They’re all the harder to catch when they’re fiddling with small-screened smartphones. In order [...]

Access to the Internet’s most-used sites and tools is being choked in Iran at a politically charged period, blocking communication channels for local businesses, bank clients, scientists and foreign media. Attempts to get on Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and foreign news pages were either met with an Iranian page saying in Farsi that “Access to this page is a violation of computer crime laws” [...]

Internet users in Iran are reporting error messages when trying to access major websites from inside the country Friday. Gmail, Google Reader and Facebook are just some of the blocked sites, according to The Washington Post. [More from Mashable: Grammys 2012: Who to Follow on Twitter] Some Iranians are guessing their connectivity woes are being caused by the Iranian government. The country celebrates [...]