A couple of weeks back, leading Chinese search engine, Baidu, unveiled its Foxconn-made smartphone which is powered by its proprietary OS called Cloud. Priced at just $160 – about five times less than the cost of an iPhone in China
When looking at some of the initiatives launched by the major global search engines over the past year, it quickly becomes evident that local is a top priority going forward. In September 2011, Yandex launched its search engine in Turkey
After being introduced for the first time at the International Search Summit in London earlier this month, there have been many positive reactions to the launch of the International SEO School. The new initiative by WebCertain kicked off last week
Rakuten, who is one of Japan’s biggest and most successful e-commerce companies announced that they invested US$100 million to Pinterest. In recent years, Rakuten has been aiming to replicate their success in Japan in the global market. They have aquired
Today, Friday, Facebook’s stock starts trading. Public demand is expected to explode and at its initial offering price of $38 a share, the social media giant is now worth more than established heavyweights Disney and Kraft, notes Business Insider. Analysts
New tips from ISS London, as promised in my post yesterday: 1. Think global, act local Lisa Myers did a presentation on Google Places from a global perspective. Google Places now operates in over 100 countries and local results have
This week’s International Search Summit in London brought many interesting search and social media marketing topics to the table. Over the next couple of days key takeaways from the summit will be posted here on Multilingual Search, so stay tuned.
Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, recently disclosed its Q1 2012 financial results. Results exceeded analyst expectations, with revenues up 51 percent to $200.3 million, and net income up 53 percent to $43 million. Surely, such figures would make most company
