10 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Amazon opens store on Tmall Amazon has opened a store on its rival Tmall’s marketplace in an attempt to expand its reach in the Chinese market. Amazon is struggling in China, with less than a 2% share of the Chinese market, where local

9 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Baidu has app removed from Brazil’s Google Play Store after spat with Qihoo Baidu has had its antivirus app removed from the Google Play Store in Brazil as part of an ongoing spat with rival Qihoo in the country. The app was removed

6 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Nigeria is leading African nation for ecommerce A study conducted by Ipsos has revealed that Nigeria is the leading African nation for ecommerce. Out of Nigeria’s 50 million internet users, a staggering 90% either shop online currently or plan to do so in

5 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Report reveals internet access worldwide Facebook has released a report on how internet access differs worldwide. The 43-page report shows that only 38% of the world’s population goes online more than once a year. The distribution of these internet users is uneven, with

4 March 2015 – Global Marketing News UAE company buys shares in Turkish ecommerce platform Hepsiburada The UAE company Abraaj Group has bought shares in the leading Turkish ecommerce platform Hepsiburada. Abraaj Group bought the 25% stake for 100 million US dollars. Hepsiburada is the most popular ecommerce website in

3 March 2015 – Global Marketing News Thai businesses using Instagram and Line to drive sales There’s an increasingly popular trend in Thailand for retailers to post pictures of their products on Instagram and complete the sale using Line, as reported by Tech in Asia. With mobile penetration at a

2 March 2015 – Global Marketing News WeChat invests in Africa WeChat Africa has invested in the South African mobile jobs platform Money for Jam (M4JAM). Money for Jam launched on WeChat in August 2014 and allows businesses to post small jobs, with workers then being able to apply for

27 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Italy imposes conditions on Google Google has agreed to several conditions imposed by Italian privacy regulators in the wake of investigations following the merging of its 70 different privacy polices into one. Google will now be subjected to spot checks by Italian privacy

26 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Facebook’s Internet.org rolls out in India Facebook has just rolled out its Internet.org initiative in India. The Internet.org project aims to provide key basic internet services to mobile users for free and has so far been launched in several African countries and Colombia.

25 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Yandex triggers investigation against Google in Russia The search engine Yandex has asked Russia’s anti-monopoly regulator to investigate Google over whether its Android operating system is unfairly blocking other search engines on Android phones. Google is set as the default search engine on