Friday 4 July 2008

Gapmaker Exercises_4 July

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb2008073_344519.htm?chan=globalbiz_asia+index+page_top+stories

Gap File produced at level 8

According to the Internet analyst company's latest statement, the regional Internet audience grew at an average of 14 percent during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users.
India registered the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users, followed by China at 14 percent growth with over 102 million, said comScore.
Taiwan and Malaysia also clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent for both. ComScore said the more mature, saturated Internet markets of Japan and Singapore were at the bottom of the list, growth wise.
Additionally, it was found that Internet users in the region spend less time online than the worldwide average, with users in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan spending the most time in the region. Nonetheless, these were still below the worldwide average, said comScore.
On Web domains, comScore said half of the top 20 in the region are locally-owned, noting that five of the top 10 search engines are regionally-based, citing China's Baidu.com and Korea's NHN Corporation's Naver.com.


The following words will fill the gaps:
analyst citing corporations domains percent percent percent percent region region region regional registered

Useful business sentences by Siri

- growth Soars

- grew at an average of 14 percent

- during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users.

- the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users

- clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent

- ComScore said the more mature, saturated Internet markets

- spend less time online than the worldwide average

- half of the top 20 in the region

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