Yahoo! Mail Looking Good on the iPad with HTML 5

If you are using Yahoo mail you just upgraded!

While you can obviously set up a Yahoo! mail account with Mail on your iPad and avoid opening Safari altogether (and push too) Yahoo! is still stepping it up with a HTML5 enhanced version of Yahoo! Mail and it looks pretty.

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Which Search Engine Do You Use?

Google usage drops to mid-60% share.

Hong Kong (and Asia) is a fragmented place for the big US internet brands. Yahoo Hong Kong is a monster here, but everyone uses MSN Messenger for instant messaging. eBay also falls second to Yahoo Auctions.

In terms of search engines, we here at the ‘Punch love to Google left-right-and-center, the Bing search does look quite sharp, but we can’t remember the last time we used Yahoo to search for something other than our own rankings.

So the new ComScore report that showcases the breakdown of the search engine market is quite interesting: Google has a mod-60% share (we thought it would be higher) Yahoo has a 17% share (we thought it would be lower) and Microsoft who was going to buy Yahoo not too long ago and launched their own search engine is already at 11%. This is just the US since we’re sure Baidu has a pretty big user base themselves.

Click on to read more and also answer our poll: Which search engine do you use?

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Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business 2010

…And 9 of them are Chinese!

Including this guy, Ben Huh, the CEO of the Cheezburger Network, who apparently is allergic to cats! And you can count even more Asians, if you include people from Japanese and Korean heritage.

On the list singer/actor and Green Hornet sidekick Jay Chou, senior software engineer at Facebook Haiping Zhao and Perry Chen who started Kickstarter, a crowd-sourcing investment site. Say what you will about the list, but these creative Asians are all mentioned in the same breath as Lady Gaga, James Cameron and Jamie Oliver.

See the full list here.

The Yahoo! Emotive Brand Awards!

Hong Kong’s best of the best according to Yahoo! Hong Kong

Yahoo! Hong Kong honored local companies for their innovate web presences at the annual “Yahoo! Emotive Brand Awards 2009-2010.” This is the 8th year that Yahoo! Hong Kong has organised the event with the first awards held in 2002.

Held at a packed Four Seasons ballroom awards where given out in 24 catagories to one major brand after another (check out the list of winners at the bottom of this article to see who won what).

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