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Rakuten – a new era of borderless retail and entertainment

In Japan Rakuten is by far the dominant online retailer in a host of categories.

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Tesco vs. Topshop – cultural secret to international success

It’s a mantra the Oban Multilingual Search team live by, when you are looking at international expansion, international digital marketing is going to be an essential part of that plan. If you are looking to expand internationally, no matter where in the world that is, language is just the cherry on a much bigger cake. […]

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Google and the Interflora fiasco

Interflora is best known as one of the UK’s most popular florists, not for getting into trouble with online regulations. Recent escapades revealed by, Google, portrayed a very different light. If you’re not familiar with the incident, Interflora practically disappeared from Google’s SERPs, losing ranking for hundreds of brand and non brand search terms. ‘Black […]

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Social Media Facts and Stats – Latin America

The number of web users in Latin America continues to grow yearly at an impressive rate. Social media has proved especially popular among latinos with Argentina, Brazil and Mexico joining the global top ten social consumers in under two years.

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Are You Choosing the Right Keyword for your Japanese SEO?

For any native English speaker, Japanese is one of the most difficult languages to learn and if you want to expand your market share by doing Japanese SEO or PPC, this can be a huge challenge.a