The growth potential of the businesses owned by SA-based media group Naspers in eastern Europe received a nasty blow with the announcement yesterday that the Springer Verlag, Germany’s biggest media group, and Ringier, Switzerland’s biggest media group, have joined forces to grow their market share in eastern Europe. [Read on]

Thanks to Laura McDonald, my hack-buster and developer extraordinaire of Texas-based Dynabytes, I stand under hack-attack no more.

Her fearless counter-attack forced the hacker to back off. Leaving us to enjoy our wonderful, super-fast website. While Laura was “fighting” behind the scenes, she also made a few very necessary updates, for which I want to thank her.

A hacker has worked his magic on my blog, making it extremely slow. Please be patient, while my IT man (actually a woman) fights off the attack. [Read on]

Martin Lau, president of Tencent, China’s biggest internet company*, has warned that government regulation was impacting negatively on the mobile business of Tencent. The Chinese government banned payment per mobile phone in November last year. [Read on]