Global Marketing News – 6th July 2016 Baidu sets its sights beyond Asia Robin Li, the CEO of China’s most popular search engine Baidu, has said that the company intends to enter the US and European markets. Its rival Google is the dominant search engine in both the US and
Global Marketing News – 1st July 2016 New data surveillance laws approved in Russia New data surveillance legislation has been approved by the Russian government. The new legislation states that online services, such as email and social network companies, need to keep message records for 1 year. If they use
Global Marketing News – 28th June 2016 Instagram to embrace translation technology Instagram is due to implement translation technology into its service in the coming months. The feature will be available in the options tab under each image, and will translate comments, descriptions and user biographies into the user’s chosen
Global Marketing News – 23rd June 2016 Amazon Invests 600 Million Dollars In Indonesia It has been reported that Amazon is due to invest 600 million US dollars in Indonesia, within one year. What had previously been a rumour was seemingly confirmed by Daniel Tumiwa, the head of Indonesia’s ecommerce
Global Marketing News – 20th June 2016 Baidu Announces Cut In Quarterly Projection Baidu has announced a cut in its quarterly revenue projection, apparently due to the recent scrutiny it has come under regarding its paid search results. In the statement, the company said that it was reducing its second-quarter
Global Marketing News – 15th June 2016 Yandex Makes Changes To Browser And Search Engine Yandex has announced a change to its browser that it claims makes it the first of its kind. The company’s Zen technology, which allows for personalised content recommendation, has been implemented into its browser and
Global Marketing News – 10th June 2016 Amazon invests $3 billion in Indian market Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, has announced that the company has made a 3 billion US dollar investment in the Indian market. Launched only 3 years ago, Amazon.in is already one of the top ecommerce retailers in
Global Marketing News – 7th June 2016 Putin’s chef launches attack against search engines Vladimir Putin’s personal chef, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has filed lawsuits against the internet companies Google, Yandex and Mail.ru. He alleges that the companies have refused to remove links from their search engine results pages that appear when
Global Marketing News – 2nd June 2016 US Privacy Shield agreement rejected by the EU An agreement designed to protect EU citizens’ data in the US, dubbed the Privacy Shield, has been rejected on the grounds that it needs “significant improvements”. The European Data Protection Supervisor has warned that the
Global Marketing News – 27th May 2016 Baidu Tieba to close down due to piracy fears Baidu is due to close its literature forum website, Baidu Tieba, due to ongoing concerns of online piracy. The move has come as a reaction to reports made in Xinhua news outlets, that accused Baidu Tieba