In its latest report, a top internet marketing research firm comScore revealed that the global number of internet users has crossed nearly 1 billion mark during the last month (December 2008), with 41.3% coming from the Asia-Pacific region.

The comScore survey looked at Internet users aged above 15, who accessed the net from their home or work PCs during December 2008.

San Francisco  - Google posted the first-ever decline in its quarterly earnings Thursday but still beat market expectations in the withering economic climate.

The web search giant said that it earned 382 million dollars, or 1.21 dollars per share, in the three months ending in December - a drop of 68 per cent from the same period in 2007. But the profit was hit by a 1.5-billion-dollar charge for write downs on investments like AOL and Clearwire and the cost of issuing new stock options to employees whose existing warrants were below the company's share price.

Jet Airways, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, has rolled out an affiliate marketing program in the market, as part of the company’s new digital marketing strategy to increase its revenue.

During the announcement, the company said that the program will be managed by Shoogloo Affiliate Marketing.

Under the program, the Jet Airways Affiliate Program provides Affiliate Partners with websites the opportunity to partner one of India’s leading brands, and generate revenues per conversion by promoting the airline’s web sales.

Saying that it is yielding enough money, and it's aimed to cut costs, Google Inc, on Tuesday, announced that it is ceasing its two-year-old service to sell newspaper advertising, and thus gave a big blow to its own efforts to extend its ad program beyond web.

On its blog on Tuesday, the company stated that on Feb. 28 it will shut down its Print Ads program. Launched in November 2006, the program was fabricated to help newspapers make money by attracting Google advertisers to expand into print newspaper sales. About 800 U. S. newspapers were part of the program.

An announcement was today made by Tata Indicom that they have entered in a partnership with Indusgeeks Solutions Private Ltd, according to which it will extend its ongoing "Suno Dil Ki Awaaz" campaign into the virtual world.

An interactive 'virtual competition' involving Virtual World and Talent Hunt would be launched by Tata Indicom with the aim to compliment the initiative.