INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL & INTERNATIONAL TRADE NEWS
31 March 2015
GROW GLOBAL NEWS
growglobal.com – Sarah Carroll, GROW GLOBAL’s Director, will be running a series of webinars, seminars and masterclasses to help companies to optimise their websites, e-commerce systems and social media for international trade. Read more>>
INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL NEWS
bbc.co.uk – For the last couple of weeks the hot new thing in tech – or at least the most talked about at the SXSW music and tech festival in Texas – has been a live-streaming video service called Meerkat. Now Twitter, which just days ago acted to prevent Meerkat tapping into its own users quite so easily, has launched a rival service called Periscope. Read more>>
INTERNATIONAL TRADE NEWS
dhlguide.co.uk – British and other western business people can be reluctant to initiate trade with countries in the Middle East – but navigating business etiquette in this region is less complicated than you may think. Here are our top tips for doing business with key UK markets within GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Read more>>
bbc.co.uk – Annual core consumer inflation in Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, stopped rising for the first time in nearly two years in February. The core consumer price index (CPI) was flat from a year ago, stripping out the effect of last year’s sales tax increase in April. The last time the core CPI did not rise was in May 2013, when it was flat. Read more>>
bbc.co.uk – Italian luxury goods retailer Prada saw its net profit fall 28% last year as sales slumped in major markets of China and Europe. The firm’s net income was €451m ($490m; £330m) for the year ending 31 January, down from €628m a year ago. The amount also fell short of analyst expectations of €476m. Read more>>
OTHER INTERNATIONAL NEWS
BBC – Lee Kuan Yew: How did Asia remember him?>>
BBC – French local elections: Exit polls suggest conservative win>>
BBC – Breakthrough for understanding whale communication>>
BBC – The Vocabularist: where did the word ‘king’ come from?>>
BBC – UKTI retail sales rise helped by housing market recovery>>
Guardian – Sweden adds gender-neutral pronoun to dictionary>>
Metro – This amazing map shows London’s most common second languages according to Tube station>>
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