Global marketing news – 2 September 2016 Moscow’s e-commerce industry is showing substantial growth according to a study by The Department of Information Technology, Naspers’ CEO Bob Van Dijk has suggested that Romania could become a tech hub in Europe, and Apple has responded to the 14.6 billion US dollar

Global Marketing News – 30th August 2016 India’s cities are experiencing a tech revolution, as for the first time cash payment is being overtaken by electronic forms of payment. Chinese ecommerce giant, Alibaba, has expressed a desire to see Australia “move up the [sales] ranks”. And an analysis of Virtual and Augmented Reality mentions on

Global Marketing News – 24th August 2016 The online food order companies Just Eat and Takeway.com have each signed a deal that swaps their local websites. Following the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU, telecommunication companies across Europe have called for the country to leave its internet borders open. And The Hong Kong Federation

Global Marketing News – 19th August 2016 Tencent invests in Indian messaging service Hike It has been confirmed that WeChat-owner Tencent Holdings has helped the Indian messaging service Hike raise 175 million US dollars in funding. Hike, a rival to WhatsApp in India, already boasts 100 million users, but Tencent’s

Global Marketing News – 16th August 2016 Google faces antitrust measures in Russia and South Korea Google is facing the wrath of yet more antitrust regulators, this time from Russia and South Korea. After being on the receiving end of a formal investigation of the same nature from the European

Global marketing news – 11 August 2016 Fresh antitrust blow to Amazon Amazon’s Japanese offices have been raided by antitrust regulators. The raid was confirmed to have occurred earlier this week by a spokeswoman for Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, saying that Amazon Japan had forced retailers on its site to

Global Marketing News – 8th August 2016 Yandex announces impressive Q2 results Yandex has shown positive growth in its second quarter financial results for 2016. The Russian search company has reported revenues of 280 million US dollars, up 30% since last year, as well as net earnings of nearly 61

Global Marketing News – 3rd August 2016 Brands gear up for Rio Olympics social media marketing Companies are looking to social media to make an impact during this month’s Olympic Games in Rio. According to leading brands, social marketing has moved on dramatically since London’s games in 2012. Kate Hartman,

Global Marketing News – 29th July 2016 Apple sees falling iPhone sales for second quarter Apple has seen its iPhone sales fall for the second quarter in a row. The 15% drop follows on from the company’s second quarter announcement that sales of its smartphone had slowed for the first

Global Marketing News – 26th July 2016 UK is Europe’s biggest driver of site traffic from social media According to research from Adobe, the UK is the largest driver of website traffic through social engagement. Adobe’s Europe Best of the Best 2015 Report said that UK brands drove the most