Global Marketing News – 4th December 2015 Alibaba opens offices in France and Germany The Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba is to open offices in France and Germany. It aims to encourage more French and German businesses of all sizes to sell their products in China via Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall
Global Marketing News – 1st December 2015 German court gives website blocking powers to ISPs A German court has ruled that the blocking of websites is permissible in certain circumstances. The ruling said that internet providers are obliged to block access to websites that contain content that infringes copyright, if
Global Marketing News – 26th November 2015 UK named as world’s third biggest online exporter Research by PayPal has revealed that the UK is the third biggest online exporter in the world, behind only the US and China. Around 86 million people living outside the UK have bought from British
Global marketing news – 23 November 2015 India to surpass US for internet penetration The internet population of India is set to hit 402 million next month, overtaking the internet population of the US for the first time ever. It will make India the second biggest internet market in the
Global Marketing News – 18th November 2015 Alibaba buys Youku Tudou The Chinese internet giant Alibaba has bought the video platform Youku Tudou. Youku Tudou is the most popular online video platform in China, with around 500 million monthly active users. Its acquisition is Alibaba’s second foray into the Chinese video
Global marketing news – 10 November 2015 Russia orders Twitter to store data within its borders The Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has ordered Twitter to store details of its Russian users in data centres located in Russia. If Twitter does not comply, Roskomnadzor has the power to impose fines and
Global Marketing News – 10th November 2015 Sogou sues rival Baidu for patent infringement The Chinese internet company Sogou has sued its rival Baidu for patent infringement after accusing the latter of lifting elements from its input method editor (IME) without permission. The IME allows users to type in Latin
Global Marketing News – 5th November 2015 German internet users dislike mobile ads Mobile internet users in Germany do not like mobile ads, according to research by Nordlight Research. The majority, 65%, said they had a negative attitude towards mobile ads, such as finding them annoying. A further 27% had
Global Marketing News – 2nd November 2015 Global growth slows for leading social platforms Both Twitter and Line have seen big slowdowns in their user numbers. The micro-blogging site Twitter now has 307 million monthly active users, an increase of just 3 million users on the previous quarter. This amounts
Global Marketing News – 28th October 2015 Yandex gives official response to Iran entry rumours A Yandex spokesperson has confirmed with Webcertain TV that the search engine is not planning to enter Iran. The Yandex Press Office commented on speculation that the search engine was about to enter the Iranian