Global Marketing News – 10th June 2015 New opportunities in Russia as Yandex launches music service The Russian internet giant Yandex has launched a new service called Yandex.Radio. Yandex.Radio is a music service containing over 100 radio stations of different genres. Yandex.Radio actively learns what type of music a user
Global Marketing News – 4th June 2015 Alibaba adds new countries to its B2B ecommerce site Alibaba has announced that South Korean, Portuguese and Italian brands will soon be able to sell their products on one of its ecommerce sites. 1688.com, which is owned by Alibaba, is one of the
Global Marketing News – 29th May 2015 Portuguese app store Aptoide to expand into Asia The Portuguese app store Aptoide has announced it plans to expand into South-East Asia. Aptoide is the third largest Android app store in the world, after Google Play and Amazon. It differs from Google Play
Global marketing news – 22 May 2015 Facebook accused of tracking users without consent Facebook has come under fire by the Belgian Privacy Protection Commission for tracking users without their consent. The Commission said that Facebook’s practices amounted to them “trampling” on European privacy laws. They also accused the social
Global marketing news – 18 May 2015 Daum and Naver go head-to-head in South Korea Two of South Korea’s biggest online companies are busy buying up local startups in a bid to get ahead in the emerging mobile market. As consumers are continuing to move from personal computers to mobile
Global Marketing News – 12th May France backs a bid to force Google to disclose its search algorithm workings The French parliament has voted for a new bill that would require search engines to display up to 3 rivals on their home page. They would also have to show the
Global Marketing News – 6th May Twitter is to Enlarge Its User Growth Figures by Including SMS-only Users The social networking giant is reflecting new audience trends by including a new group when calculating its number of active users. ‘SMS fast followers’ are users who only access Twitter through text
Global Marketing News – 29th April Yahoo faces a tough search for Japan exit Yahoo is hoping to sell a $9 billion stake in its Japanese affiliate, Yahoo Japan. A Yahoo chief executive says that the company has hired advisors to help it unlock the value of the 36% stake
So the global ecommerce opportunity is big. Some would even go as far as to say it’s amazing. But just how amazing? And more importantly perhaps, which online destinations offer the most potential for business growth? The hot off the press report The Amazing Potential of Global Ecommerce in 2015
20 April 2015 – Global Marketing News Internal Google antitrust memo leaked An internal memo that was circulated to Google staff about the EU antitrust investigation has been leaked online. The EU has launched an antitrust investigation against Google, which argues that the search engine has been abusing its dominance