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Wal-Mart Expands E-Commerce Footprint in China
Wal-Mart Stores is increasing its investment in Yihaodian, an e-commerce website in China. The deal will bring Walmart's total ownership stake to approximately 51 percent. Launched in July 2008, Yihaodian offers more than 180,000 SKUs and has achieved a significant presence in online grocery sales, as well as in categories such as baby/mom, consumer electronics and app [...]
Posted: Monday, February 20th 2012
China's Alibaba Group Moves to Become Next Social Networking Giant
Alibaba Group, China's e-commerce giant, is beta-testing a new social-networking-product. An Alibaba Group spokeswoman told Reuters the product will be called "Laiwang" and will be available on the PC and downloadable onto Android smartphones and iPhones.
Laiwang is said to be similar to the Google+ network.
China as Global Ad Growth Driver
Laiwang is the latest [...]
Posted: Friday, December 2nd 2011
Toyota Drives Car Closer to Its New Role of Online Marketing Channel
Toyota told us one was coming and now it is almost here: an automobile that not only connects to the Internet but embraces it. As more automobile makers move in this direction, this will become another channel available to digital marketers.
Called the Fun-Vii, the concept car debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show this week. Its sleek exterior mimics the look of a smartphone, with both the exterior and interior able to be adjusted to fit the driver’s mood, PC Magazine [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 29th 2011
Baidu Preps for Mobile Role
Baidu has given the market a peak at its forthcoming mobile operating system and application platform. The platform, based on the Android OS, is called Baidu Yi and it is designed to give third-party application developers a channel to distribute games, maps and other apps - similar to the Apple's App Store, Reuters reports.
Baidu Yi may prove the necessary boost China's mobile market - which [...]
Posted: Friday, September 2nd 2011
Gaming Posed to be Another Online Success Story in China
If Zynga's recent move to partner with a local Chinese firm to reach the country's consumers is any indication, gaming looks ready to deliver its promise of becoming a major channel there. Zynga is joining forces with Chinese internet mobile Tencent to launch a heavily localized version of CityVille for Chinese audiences, running on Tencent’s developer platform, Inside Social Games [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 26th 2011
New Rules of the Road for Global Online Marketing Campaigns
News flash. Online ads in India perform better when written in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and other regional languages compared to English creatives! Apparently these localized ads attract more internet users, according to a survey by Ozone Media and reported in the Economic Times.
If that wasn't surprising enough, the study also found that resident Indians res [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 30th 2011
iPad 2 Goes Global: What Can Marketers Learn from Apple's Missteps? (Yes, Missteps)
After thoroughly wowing consumers in the US, Apple is starting to provide its latest wunderbar product, the iPad 2, to global markets. It would seem, given the sold-out status of the iPad in the US, that selling the tablet overseas will be a no-brainer. But any global manager of any company will tell you there is no such animal. Thus, the glitches Apple is experiencing - exacerbated by the real time knowledge base supplied by the Internet - provides an interesting case study for companies plan [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 23rd 2011
3DTV Shows 1st Rate Promise
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Posted: Thursday, December 23rd 2010
Worldwide Online Search Market Grows 46%
The total worldwide online search market grew 46% in December 2009 compared to December 2008, according to the latest qSearch data from digital research firm comScore, Inc.
US, China Lead in Total Number of Searches
During December 2009, internet users conducted 131.3 billion online searches, compared to 89.7 billion online searches in December 2008. The U [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 27th 2010
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/23/09
Online Media:
Microsoft, News Corp. discuss web deal to remove news sites from Google.
Sony online service to challenge iTunes?
Online Retail:
EBay search glitch [...]
Posted: Monday, November 23rd 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/16/09
Online Advertising:
Google trademark policy worries holiday advertisers.
Online Payments:
More ways to avoid cash or plastic at checkout.
Media Strategies:
Comcast [...]
Posted: Monday, November 16th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/09/09
Media Strategies:
Murdoch will likely remove sites from Google's index.
Social Media:
Which ad networks did Facebook shut down?
Panel advice: Take deliberate approach to social medi [...]
Posted: Monday, November 9th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/28/09
Media Strategies:
The WSJ's odd mobile application strategy.
Disney offers iPhone app.
Online Marketing Scams:
Gawker [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 28th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09
Web 2.0 News and Trends:
Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009
Yahoo Drops $150M Worth of Alibaba Shares
Yahoo is preparing to sell 57.48 million shares of Alibaba.com, China's largest B2B marketplace. The sale will raise about $150 million -- the full 1.14% stake it purchased four years ago.
When Yahoo made the purchase, Alibaba took charge of Yahoo China. The department recently restructured, during which much-used classifieds service Koubei was transitioned to Taobao.com.
In part because of this, tension has begun to rise between Yahoo and Alibaba, [...]
Posted: Monday, September 14th 2009
To Protect Economy, China Sets Limits on Virtual Currency
Online transactions with virtual currency in online gaming has become so widespread in China that the government fears it will affect the actual economy, The New York Times reports.
The country is currently one of the world's largest markets for massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft; tens of millions of youth are reportedly trading virtual goods for real money or [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 1st 2009
Email, IM, SMS Use Vary By Country; Spam Universal
North Americans and Europeans are much more likely to use email as their primary form of communication than those in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, where instant messaging is more popular, according to a oglobal email study from Epsilon.
The [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 10th 2009
Mobile Inet Access Up 36%; Still Dwarfed by China
Mobile internet access increased by 36% in the US last year, but the number of Americans (18 million, ages 13+) that connect to the mobile web is still relatively low compared with the 100 million users who connect via mobile in China, according to a report from Netpop (via MarketingCharts).
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Posted: Friday, May 29th 2009
Bandwidth-Thirsty Developing World Poses Threat to Web's Bottom Line
Photo-sharing sites, social networks, and video distributors (e.g., Flickr, Facebook, YouTube) are booming in developing nations like Turkey, India, and Brazil - but struggling to turn a profit from online advertising alone.
Internet entrepreneurs have always operated under the ideals of uniting everyone in a single online "village" by providing free services to [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 28th 2009
Google To Facilitate Indian Elections
Google launched the Google India Elections Center to help engage and prepare India’s 700 million eligible voters for next month’s general elections, reports TechCrunch.
Google has organized similar web-based election centers in the US and Australia in the past, but Google India’s election center offers new features which [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th 2009