Global Marketing News – 20th May 2015 Russia’s biggest social network VK has beaten television in battle for audience share A report by Russian media research team, TNS, shows that VK had 13.2 million users in March this year. This … Read More
Global Marketing News – 14th May Alibaba Sees Sales Increase By 40% Alibaba has reported a 40% growth in sales for the last quarter. Chinese consumers have purchased 600 billion Yuan worth of products through the Chinese e-commerce site in … Read More
Global Marketing News – 13th May India’s Prime Minister has joined Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo Narendra Modi recently joined the growing list of famous people who are signing up to site, in an attempt to connect with a Chinese … Read More
Global Marketing News – 11th May McDonalds is to Change its international Structure The company’s new chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, plans to reorganise the fast-food chain in an attempt to turn it into what he refers to as a ‘modern, … Read More
Global Marketing News – 5th May Sohu.com is catching up with Baidu in China Sohu.com could be a threat to Baidu, having reported better than expected financial results with a revenue increase of 25%. The Chinese internet company, based in … Read More
Global Marketing News – 28th April Facebook Suffers Slowdown in Global Growth Shares in Facebook fell by 2% last week as it reported its slowest quarterly revenue gain in two years. Meanwhile, research and development spending increased as more money … Read More
22 April 2015 – Global Marketing News Google’s “Mobilegeddon” update is finally launched globally Google has updated it search algorithm to punish websites that are not optimised for mobiles. The so-called “Mobilegeddon” update will push down websites in the search … Read More
16 April 2015 – Global Marketing News Japanese court orders removal of negative reviews from Google Maps A court in Japan has ordered Google to remove 2 negative reviews that were written on Google Maps about a Japanese medical practice. … Read More
10 April 2015 – Global Marketing News Turkish internet users evade ban on Twitter and YouTube Twitter and YouTube were both temporarily banned in Turkey earlier this week, despite a court ruling having said such blanket bans are unconstitutional. Turkish … Read More
2 April 2015 – Global Marketing News EU launches investigation into ecommerce sector The EU has announced that it plans to launch a competition investigation into the ecommerce sector in the next few months. The investigation will look at whether … Read More
1 April 2015 – Global Marketing News Congo leads global internet speed increase Research by Akamai has revealed how internet speeds vary across the world. The research shows that average global internet speeds increased by 20% last year, reaching an … Read More
31 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Facial recognition may replace passwords online The Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba is developing facial recognition technology that could eventually be used as an alternative to written passwords. The technology, which is currently in … Read More
30 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Facebook investigated for illegally sharing EU citizens’ data The European court has opened a case investigating whether Facebook has been illegally sharing EU citizens’ data with US security authorities on a massive scale. … Read More
27 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Mozilla drops Google for search in Turkey The internet browser Mozilla Firefox has announced that it will now be changing its default browser in Turkey from Google to Yandex. The decision comes just … Read More
26 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Jumia sales up 900% Sales on the ecommerce site Jumia went up by a staggering 900% in Kenya last year. Jumia, which was originally launched in Nigeria and has since spread across several … Read More
