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. … Read More
Global Marketing News – 3rd June 2015 China Mobile to team up with Alibaba and Tencent China’s leading telecoms company, China Mobile, has said that it wants to team up with the ecommerce giants Alibaba and Tencent. Telecoms companies have … Read More
Global Marketing News – 2nd June 2015 75% of Google’s ad revenue coming from Apple devices Three quarters of Google’s mobile ad revenue is coming through Apple devices, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs. Mobile ads generated around 12 … Read More
Global Marketing News – 1st June 2015 Vietnamese browser Coc Coc takes on Google Chrome Coc Coc is the second most popular web browser in Vietnam, coming after only Google Chrome, according to data from ComScore. Google Chrome currently has … Read More
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, … Read More
Global marketing news – 28 May 2015 Indonesia has highest online fraud levels globally A report by Forter has revealed which countries have the highest levels of e-commerce payment fraud. Indonesia came top of the list, where over a third … Read More
Global marketing news – 27 May 2015 Russia to block Google, Facebook and Twitter Russian authorities have threatened to fine and block Google, Facebook and Twitter for allegedly breaking the Russian “blogging law”. The law in question says that bloggers … Read More
Global Marketing News – 26th May 2015 Taiwan orders Taobao to leave the country Taobao, the arm of Alibaba that deals with consumer-to-consumer ecommerce, has been ordered to end all business in Taiwan and leave the country within the next … Read More
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 … Read More
Global Marketing News – 21st May 2015 Baidu pursuing mobile strategy in Indonesia Baidu is pushing a strong mobile strategy in its attempt to break into the Indonesian market. Although Baidu does not have an Indonesian homepage, it opened an … Read More
Global Marketing News – 20th May 2015 Russia’s biggest social network VK has beaten television in battle for audience share A report by Russian media research team, TNS, shows that VK had 13.2 million users in March this year. This … Read More
Global Marketing News – 19th May 2015 Indian ecommerce could attract $25 billion in investment A report by consulting firm, India Opportunity Advisors shows that with enough foreign investment, the e-commerce sector in India could reach $60 billion in sales … Read More
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 … Read More
As the Founder of State of Digital and recent winner of the European Search Personality of the Year Award, there is no doubt that Bas van den Beld is well immersed in the European, and Global, Digital World. At the … Read More
Global Marketing News – 14th May Alibaba Sees Sales Increase By 40% Alibaba has reported a 40% growth in sales for the last quarter. Chinese consumers have purchased 600 billion Yuan worth of products through the Chinese e-commerce site in … Read More
