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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
24 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Ecommerce trails behind traditional retail in India Research by PwC has revealed that ecommerce levels in India are extremely low compared to traditional retail methods. Online shopping accounted for only 0.4% of all … Read More
23 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Google launches Chinese version of its YouTube developer channel Google has announced the launch of a Chinese language version of its YouTube developers’ channel. The new channel, which is aimed at helping Chinese … Read More
20 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Russia accuses Twitter of ignoring user information requests Twitter has been accused by the Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor of refusing to comply with information requests from the Russian government. Roskomnadzor said that Twitter … Read More
19 February 2015 – Global marketing news Korean e-commerce giant 11 Street to target Malaysia The South Korean e-commerce giant 11 Street has announced that it will launch a Malaysian version of its site in April. 11 Street is to … Read More
18 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Microsoft invests in Android-rival Cyanogen Microsoft has just invested 70 million US dollars into the tech start-up Cyanogen, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Cyanogen has developed an operating system to rival … Read More
17 February 2015 – Global marketing news Image leaked of Chinese worker manipulating app rankings An image has appeared online apparently showing a Chinese worker deliberately manipulating Apple app rankings. The image, which was originally posted on the Chinese social … Read More
16 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Qihoo fined 51 million yuan for unfair competition A Beijing court has ordered Chinese technology company Qihoo to pay rival Sogou 51 million yuan, equivalent to 8.2 million US dollars, according to the … Read More
15 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Baidu reorganising into 3 groups Baidu has announced that it will be reorganising its business into three groups. The existing businesses will be restructured to create a mobile services group, a search group, … Read More
14 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Facebook growing in Asia but struggling with monetisation Facebook is growing in popularity in Asia faster than anywhere else in the world, with a 51% increase in user numbers in the last 2 … Read More
13 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Online search overtakes print media as most trusted news source Research company Edelman has announced that online search engines have surpassed traditional printed media as the most trusted news source. The research revealed … Read More
