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Google has released a fix for faulty redirects on its mobile search — which happens when a website displayed in the search results isn’t properly set up to handle requests from smartphones, and leads you to the mobile site homepage instead. Starting today, first with English search results in the US, Google will have an indication below the result when it detects that smartphone users will be redirected to a homepage instead of the Web page displayed. You can still click ‘Try anyway’ if you want to reach the homepage. If any of a site’s pages are redirecting smartphone users to…
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Alibaba isn’t afraid to invest its money in new projects — its most recent deal saw it shell out nearly $250 million for a stake in SingPost – but now the e-commerce giant is getting into sports, soccer to be precise, after buying a 50 percent share of China’s top team Guangzhou Evergrande. Xinhua reports that the investment is reportedly worth $192 million, and it will see Alibaba become “part owner” of the side which won China’s domestic league and last year’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League. It isn’t clear at this point why Alibaba is making the deal, though it may be inspired…
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Alibaba isn’t afraid to invest its money in new projects — its most recent deal saw it shell out nearly $250 million for a stake in SingPost – but now the e-commerce giant is getting into sports, soccer to be precise, after buying a 50 percent share of China’s top team Guangzhou Evergrande. Xinhua reports that the investment is worth $192 million, and it will see Alibaba become “part owner” of the side which won China’s domestic league and last year’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League. It isn’t clear at this point why Alibaba is making the deal, though it may be inspired by…
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Smartphone sales up 43% in a year in Southeast Asia, with 18m units worth $4.2b sold in Q1 2014
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Southeast Asia is an up-and-coming region for smartphones, with sales continuing to intensify and breaking the halfway mark in the overall handset market to surpass feature phones, according to a latest report from market research firm GfK. In total, 18 million smartphones were sold across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam in the first quarter of 2014, up 43 percent from the same period a year ago. The value of all the smartphones sold in January through March was pegged at $4.2 billion, up 25 percent from the same period a year ago, according to the report. Notably, in…
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