12 February 2015 – Global Marketing News Naver unveils new mobile shopping platform The Korean search engine Naver has announced that it will be introducing a mobile shopping platform later this year. With smartphone penetration at over 100% in the … Read More
11 February 2015 – Global marketing news Qihoo buys 360.com for $17 million The Chinese technology company Qihoo has bought the domain name 360.com for 17 million US dollars. Qihoo bought the domain name from Vodafone on 4th February in … Read More
10 February 2015 – Global marketing news Google must improve its privacy policy, says Britain’s ICO Britain’s data protection regulator has ruled that Google’s privacy policy is too vague and needs changing, as reported by Reuters. Google’s privacy policy has … Read More
Brazil’s very own version of the Baidu search engine, Baidu Busca, went live on July 17th without much fanfare. More like a quiet chess move than a carnival parade, it is not yet posing any threat to major players such … Read More
Yandex has just launched Yandex üniversite and this is great news for all Turkish students who would like to access a very extensive online guide they can customise according to what they want to study, for how long and the … Read More
It’s become second nature to many of us; whether we’re on a train or the bus, waiting for a meeting to start or even the kettle to boil, checking our mobile phones and our apps is something that we do … Read More
Seznam.cz, a search engine in the Czech Republic which is still holding a vast number of users, recently announced changes that are about to affect mainly businesses in the Czech market including branches of international companies. The most important change … Read More
Word spread around of another Google Panda update in the SEO world. However, Matt Cutts later tweeted it was just an update to the diversity of domains in search results. At a recent SEO seminar in Australia, all involved in the … Read More
In times of Economic Crisis there is a focus on both the cost side and the income side of a Nation’s Budget. On the cost side most European countries are applying austerity policies to reduce the spending and the Budget … Read More
Data privacy is a trending topic at the moment. Regulations and laws on cookies technology usage is now key. Most websites will run a cookies based web analytical tool or software like Google Analytics. Over 55 per cent of all … Read More
Google has announced “New markup for multilingual content” which has sigificant consequences for anyone running websites in more than one language or in more than one country. This includes those with different versions for English for the US and UK … Read More
SaveurBière.com has been sentenced and fined a 10000euro fine by the Cour d’Appel de Douai, France (court of appeals of Douai) for abusive SEO tactics & techniques. Google did not think those techniques were outside its guidelines… The story 2007, … Read More
As a board member of SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Association and a multilingual internet marketer, I need to weigh in on many things when I consult my clients and one of them is what search engine to choose to … Read More
The war between Interflora and Marks & Spencer has been on-going for some time now, here is a quick wrap up of the situation: Interflora sued M&S in 2009 for bidding on its trademark in the UK (when a user … Read More
150 million European citizens shops over the internet. 30 million of them shop cross border online in the EU. European cross border shoppers spend on average €800 a year, i.e. a total of €24 billion. What rights do European consumers … Read More
