Behind the Great Firewall of China
As the second largest economy in the world1 China has long been the focus for international commerce, specifically for the last thirty years2. As the...
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Which are the preferred social networks for luxury marketers?
Over the past three years we’ve sat by and observed while luxury brands tried to gain some online presence and engage in social media, factors...
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Facebook overshadows Yandex’s app debut in US
Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia, has its sights set on the US market with the launch of their new voice-based social searching app,...
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Do Smartphone Cameras Hold the Future for Mobile Banking?
Whether you’re a smartphone surfer or a tablet-toting tech junkie, more and more people are using mobile technology to help with their everyday tasks. A...
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Going Global: How Education can succeed with Social Media
In recent years the use of social media by the education sector has increased significantly with more colleges and universities incorporating social networking solutions into...
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France: The Future of Social Networks is Mobile
In summer 2012 we took a closer look at the social networking habits of our nearest and dearest neighbours, examining how those 40million+ Gallic Internet...
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Japan and Korea lead New Year celebrations on Twitter
Twitter has had an electrifying start to 2013 in Japan and Korea, judging by the 33,388 tweets per second that were sent after the ball...
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11 rules for E-Commerce Checkout Design
Creating the perfect checkout design can be a very tricky job, because every sector has different types of customers and with different customers come different...
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Oban Conversion Focus On……..Italy
Research by: Oban Conversion Edited by: Joe Doveton The “Focus On…..” series is an occasional series of articles based on research from Oban Conversion...
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The profile of the Social Network Users in Brazil
This spring we were writing about the shift of power between Facebook and Orkut in Brazil. Then the home of the world famous Carnivale overtook...
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Is Google going to surprise us with an Easter Doodle in 2012?
It is really interesting to see how Google makes modification to its logo in order to mark a special event. Periodically, Google doodles celebrate the...
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Google in Africa – Expansion into the continent with the lowest online penetration
In terms of population and land mass, Africa is the second largest continent in the world, trailing only Asia. But taking a closer look, Africa...
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Online strategists: are you gazing into your crystal ball to see where to spend marketing dollars in the years ahead? If you are then you...
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New Kids on the Blog – International Social Media in 2012
Last week, Baidu followed in Google’s footsteps by launching a social media driven recommendations feature for its search engine. According to thenextweb.com, Baidu users can...
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The State of E-Tailing in Germany: 2011
Despite the floundering Euro-zone economy – the German ecommerce sector is in rude health. Germany currently has the largest online population in the EU –...
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SEO expansion in the Arab world
Arabic is the official language in 23 countries and is spoken by almost 320 million people around the world, from Southwest Asia to Northwest Africa....
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Google Chairman visits Korea for mobile search talks
It looks like Google intends to invest heavily in the South Korean Internet market in the coming months. It is reported that Google is highly interested in the acquisition of South Korea's second-largest search engine Daum and developing partnerships with
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Top 5 SEO & Social Media Horror Stories: Part 3
With Halloween almost upon us I thought I’d give a round-up of some of the online marketing world’s scariest horror stories from the past year. Forget about ‘Paranormal Activity II’, ‘Contagion’ or any other scary films out this year, the foll
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