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March 26th, 2013
According to a study by the Economic Research Institute, based on statistics gathered from Eurostat, 68% of Spanish companies had their own website in 2012, which is up from the 62% they had in 2010 but is still three points below the European average, which stands at 71%. The ...
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March 21st, 2013
Spain’s Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Jose Manuel Soria, this week inaugurated a free access wifi network on the Canary island of El Hierro, making it the world’s first 'Smart Island'. This initiative is part of the El Hierro 2012 Special Action Plan launched by the Ministry of Industry, Energy ...
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March 8th, 2013
On Wednesday this week, the European Commission imposed a new fine of 561 million euros on the U.S. software giant Microsoft, for breaching its commitment to include in its Windows operating system, an option screen that allows users to install alternative browsers other than their own, Internet Explorer. According to ...
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January 18th, 2013
With its presence on the Internet growing more than 800% in the last 10 years, Spanish is now the second most used language on Twitter, after English. This was announced by the director of the Cervantes Institute, Victor Garcia de la Concha, who, together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, ...
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August 24th, 2012
The penetration of web-based email amongst European Internet users is 69.5%, with the pages of Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!, and the Russian Mail.ru and Yandex being the most visited sites in Europe for checking messages. These were the findings of the audience measurement company, Comscore, who on Wednesday published data relating to ...
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July 17th, 2012
The Government of Spain's @desdelamoncloa Twitter profile now has passed the 200,000 followers milestone, putting it among the top institutional accounts in Spain and Europe. This figure also puts the Government's account among the most popular Twitter accounts set up by Spanish institutions, second only to that of ...
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May 17th, 2012
The social network created by Mark Zuckerberg plans to increase the size of its public offering by 25%, according to sources cited by Reuters. After announcing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that they were to revise the price of their IPO upward, Facebook could also increase the volume of its ...
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May 9th, 2012
Despite the high unemployment rate in Spain, only 48% of the population use the Internet to find employment, a figure which is still higher than the average of several developed countries, but much lower than their Internet use for sending and receiving emails or visiting social networks. This data comes from ...
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April 17th, 2012
Facebook has announced its intention to purchase the photo sharing application Instagram for one billion dollars, about 762 million euros. The transaction is expected to be completed during this quarter and will be paid for in cash and stock. On his profile on the social network, the creator of Facebook, Mark ...
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March 27th, 2012
In 2016 the economic activity generated through the Internet is expected to amount to 5.3% of the combined gross domestic product (GDP) of all the member countries of the G-20, according to a study released last week by The Boston Consulting Group. In absolute terms, the network will contribute $4.2 ...
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