Social Media is on the rise and businesses need to assess their marketing strategy to improve their online presence. So says a recent infographic by Moore Consulting Group, a Tallahassee, Florida-based company that offers public relations, advertising and marketing services. But these insights go beyond just their relationship to marketing PR. Earlier this year, Facebook [...]

In a bid to help customers in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), OneCard.net has entered into a payment service agreement with Dare’n’Deal, a widely used group buying website in the region. The agreement will allow buyers to pay for Dare’n’Deal services directly using OneCard. It is authoritatively known that Dare’n’Deal has daily [...]

UK based Gloople, a B2B social sharing e-commerce platform, has created an infographic titled, The Future of the Social Customer. The new visual aid says that right now only 9 percent of commerce is being handled online but that the number of companies generating sales through online social sites and mobile is projected to reach [...]

Social networking is growing exponentially more dangerous with each passing day. That’s according to AVG Technologies’ newest report, which highlights the emerging trends of mobile device attacks through the spread of malware, viruses, and other hacking efforts undertaken through social network connections. Recently, AVG Technologies – the provider of Internet and mobile security to more [...]

Middle East retailer, Souq.com, has announced the acquisition of Sukar.com a two year old Middle East private shopping club. Jabber Group, parent company of Souq.com is said to have made a $5 million investment in the shopping club giving the group a majority share. “The acquisition of Sukar.com will strategically align our two companies, maximizing [...]

Any tech savvy person can say that the future of technology is ‘mobile based internet solutions’. That is the way the whole world is moving, be it apps or eCommerce. However, not many people would recognize that what can be an impediment to growth in this direction is the internet speed. Yes, internet speed is [...]

We already know that Google has a pretty strong grasp on a chunk of our personal information but it also appears that the search engine giant may be out to steal our brains as well. And the scary thing is that Google doesn’t have to do a thing to take control of our gray matter [...]

In recent years, seismic shifts in technology and economics, has resulted in sweeping changes across the socio-political spectrum as well. Unpredictability of this sort has been unprecedented; for these days, paradigms shift at an accelerated speed. The business and marketing worlds have been acutely sensitive to these shifts and beating the curve has never been [...]

Veit Dengler, former head of Dell’s Eastern European and Russian operations, has taken over as SVP International of Groupon. Dengler, an Austrian, will be based in Switzerland and take charge of Groupon’s operations in the APAC and EMEA regions. Dengler replaces Marc Samwer who joined Groupon as a consultant after the CityDeal acquisition in 2010. [...]

Like Groupon needs more trouble, but the once darling of the daily deals industry is looking more and more like a house of cards these days. The recent $8.5 million settlement for violations of the CARD Act and the announcement by the coupon king that it would be forced to revise its financial results for [...]