Link:http://blogs.forbes.com/kenrapoza/2011/05/16/chinas-internet-population-powers-ahead-of-us-hits-477-million/Chinese Internet usage is accelerating at a rate even more rapid than expected. The amount of Internet users surged to 477 million in March of this year. Last year, China had 420 million Internet users, far surpassing the 239.2 million internet users the US registered online in 2010. Around 78% of the US population has at least a home based email account. In China, Internet penetration is under 40%, but still greater than countries like Brazil and Mexico.
Links: http://twitaholic.com/top100/followers/http://special.globaltimes.cn/2011-05/656525_2.htmlhttp://weibo.com/?ttThis list does not include China’s TencentWeibo users. While Lady Gaga leads all worldwide Twitter posters with just over 10 million followers, China's top six microbloggers each have more than 15 million followers on Tencent. China's, and likely the world's, most followed micorblogger is Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang, with 16 million followers by May. There are 17 celebrity weibo writers in China who have more than 10 million followers each on Tencentweibo.
-Though banned in China, Facebook has reached almost 700,000 users.-This is tiny when looking at the entire population, but growing very quickly. -What’s most interesting about the statistics is that nearly 80% of those users are male. -Thereis some speculation that it was caused by Mark Zuckerberg’s recent visit to China, where aspirational Chinese males found him to be a role model.Source: Source: http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/02/24/facebook-china-5/
-Also, the total Internet population grew by 39% in the last year to over 450 million people. -The Chinese government has recently released its 27th Internet Development Statistics Report-The government claims that their montioring of the Internet is to protect China’s netizens, 46% of which suffered from an online virus attack last year (and 22% suffered password theft)
Link: http://asiancorrespondent.com/53778/asia-is-now-the-worlds-biggest-smartphone-market/Link: http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/04/07/gartner-android-to-power-49-of-smartphones-by-2012/-Smartphone sales grew by over 98% in the APAC region in the last year.-37.3 million smartphones were sold, putting it ahead of EMEA for the first time. -The US still had the highest number of smartphone shipments.-Android is the leading global smartphone platform, with 35% of the market-The iPhone has an 18% global share
Link: http://thenextweb.com/in/2011/05/04/official-india-has-only-500-million-mobile-users-not-800-million/According to India’s telecom regulator, TRAI, the real number of active mobile users in India is only around 500 million, much lower than the projected official number of over 800 million.