The European Commission (EC) has been investigating Google's alleged "anticompetitive" internet search service since 2010, after a number of companies lead by Microsoft complained that Google was abusing its dominant position in the internet...
Google has submitted proposals to address European Union (EU) concerns that the company, which owns a dominating 90 percent of the search market in Europe, is guilty of discriminating against rivals, Bloomberg reported.
The attack ads coincide with another European antitrust complaint orchestrated by Microsoft relating to Google's Android software. In an interview with the New York Times, European Union’s antitrust chief, Joaquín Almunia, noted one solution to...
For the European market SEO Effect provides great local coverage. After all, just by visiting Google Webmaster Tools you get visibility, ranking and click through information for each region, timeframe and search result type straight from the source.
A 2007 US Census Bureau report put the number of Americans speaking Spanish “very well” in their homes at more than 18 million people with an additional 6 million or so speaking it “well,” while nearly 7 million Americans spoke an Indo-European...
Tampa-based BlueGlass has strengthened its European presence with the acquisition of Swiss digital marketing agency Idealizer. Founded in 2007, Idealizer specializes in search and content marketing, According to Zwicky, the Swiss team’s offerings...
Google has submitted a response to the European Commission (EC) over its anti-competitive business concerns, Reuters reported. Theoretically Google could face a fine as high as $4 billion – 10 percent of its global turnover – if found to be in...
Foundem, a comparison search website that helped initiate a large-scale European Union anti-trust investigation against Google, has filed a lawsuit against Google, according to court papers filed in October and released this week, Bloomberg reported.
Elsewhere, Russia is dominated by Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, sites that are also quickly expanding into other Eastern European countries. That figure tumbled to six in December however, when Facebook overtook Orkut as the leading social...
One of the largest European retailers with 171 stores in the UK and Republic of Ireland with an additional 69 international franchise stores across 26 countries, Debenhams expanded its global presence by launching an online store in Germany.
The firm also faced similar issues in the Europe, and was earlier this year told by European Commission to come up with an agreeable settlement so that a prolonged investigation could be avoided. The investigation into Google centers around whether...
During the call, Margiloff chimed in, "We see Brazilian marketers being able to leapfrog the digital challenges that US, Asian and European markets have faced. When we go into a market we go into it for the long haul.
A recent study conducted across the European Union found that only 18 percent of users said they would make online purchases from a site that was not in their own native language. This could provide a starting point, but good market research should...
European Commission antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia said on Tuesday that EU regulators had reached "a good degree of understanding between Google and the Commission," according to the Wall Street Journal
A recent study conducted across the European Union found that more than half of Internet users visited foreign language (usually meaning English) websites. As of June 2012, Karmasnack reported the search engine giant had a whopping 87.6 percent...
The European Commission (EC) gave Google a July deadline to address antitrust concerns. In the course of a few years, Google could become a monopoly in [the publishing] market," said Pitruzzella on the Italian Parliament floor, according to the...
User behavior in Russia, for example, is so different than what American and European companies are used to,” said Reich. A lot of different factors contribute to a successful transition into a new market, whether on the ground or online.
This gave us a strong foundation to open an office, and today we have an office with sales, customer success and marketing up and running in London to support the European search market. What have the top enterprise-level SEO software and service...
Katz is in the spotlight for authoring a rather weak anti-Google rant, “Google’s Monopoly and Internet Freedom”, using the Wall Street Journal as his platform as we get closer to the July 2 deadline the European Union has set for Google to adjust...
This is not just a local, or even European affair. The global mobile advertising market was valued at over $5.3 billion for 2011. Of that, mobile search ad spending accounted for just under $3.3 billion ($3.292 billion), according to the IAB Mobile...
